Someone You Loved a cover by me Frankie of Lewis Capaldi's 2019 best selling single

Someone You Loved was recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi (nephew of Peter Capaldi of Dr Who fame). It was released as a download on 8 November 2018 as the third single from his second extended play, Breach (2018). It was later a song on his debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent in 2019. Capald wrote the song along with Samuel Romans, and its producers Thomas Barnes, Peter Kelleher and Benjamin Kohn. It was sent to radio stations on 16 April 2019 as the first US single.
Someone You Loved was big success, peaking at number one on the UK Singles Chart. It was Lewis Capaldi's first number one single and spent seven consecutive weeks at the top of the chart. It became the best selling single of 2019 in the UK. It also reached number one on the Irish Singles Chart in March 2019. In the United States "Someone You Loved", a piano ballad, was a sleeper hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 in its 24th week on the chart. It was nominated for Song of the Year at the 62nd Grammy Awards. It also received an award for Song of the Year at the 2020 Brit Awards. As of 2023, Someone You Loved is the 4th most streamed song on Spotify, with 2.7 billion streams on the platform.
In an interview with the French magazine Brut, Capaldi revealed he wrote the song about his grandmother who had died. In an interview with NME, Capaldi revealed that it took him six months to write the song. He said, "A lot of people say that 'the best songs fall into your lap' and that they're the easiest ones to write and take the shortest amount of time: I wholeheartedly disagree with that. I think my best songs come from me sitting at a piano, bashing my head against a brick wall for hours and hours on end to get one good melody.