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“I'm Not The Only One” by Sam Smith
From the album In the Lonely Hour (2014)
“I'm Not The Only One” by Sam Smith appears on 7 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2014 and 2015. It was first released in 2014 on the album In the Lonely Hour. Its best result is #8 on the WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2014. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #24 indie & aaa song of 2014 and #225 of the '10s.
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"I'm Not the Only One" came off In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith's 2014 debut, a ballad about infidelity that Smith wrote with Jimmy Napes, inspired by the marriage of someone the two of them knew. Napes produced it with Steve Fitzmaurice, and Capitol released it at the end of August 2014 in Britain, where it was the album's third single; in America it came out as the second.
The setting is piano soul with orchestral strings and a gospel shape, and Smith sings it with a wounded restraint that makes the betrayal land harder; critics singled out that voice. An alternate version brought in A$AP Rocky, and the song kept Smith's run going: top three in the UK, top five in the US and number one in South Africa. Dianna Agron and Chris Messina star in the video.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 48 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2014 | 107 |
| 2014 | 8 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2014 | 200 |
| 2014 | 17 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2014 | 90 |
| 2014 | 28 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2014 | 100 |
| 2014 | 40 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2014 | 104 |
| 2014 | 68 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2014 | 89 |
| 2015 | 79 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2015 | 88 |
Also listed as: I'm Not the Only One.
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