Stay With Me

We don't know what is the position of YouTube about the thing named ‘monetization’, but if Sam Smith received $0.01 from every time when his clip ‘Stay With Me’ is watched on YouTube, he would receive not less than 6.8 million dollars by now. It is very lyrical, heart touching, a soft-sound song that has no corners, edges, and all it has is remarkable voice and smoothness.
Sam Smith may not be the most popular guy in the show business but when you do make the clip that is watched 680 million times on YouTube, you should definitely consider yourself a big star.
The list of countries that included the song in their weekly charts is: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the US. At least 14 of the mentioned ones had this song on the peak position number one. And none of them had this same the end-of-year position. But peaking number four in New Zealand and the United States was pretty remarkable. The certification is also outstanding – it was at least 7 times platinum in the United States, two times platinum in the United Kingdom, and several times platinum in the other countries – four times in the Australia & Canada, while in Netherlands and New Zealand it was three times platinum. Sweden named it 6 times Platinum. The overall sales are about 10 million copies worldwide.
As any other successful song, it has several cover versions; it is included in numerous live performances and is used in media, as well as it has eventually become a part of this animated motion picture. It is done in the genre of soul, but we believe it is also made in the pop genre.
It is included in the Sam Smith's album named ‘In The Lonely Hour’, which has two basic directions – pop and soul. It had a high commercial success and it was overall rated at 62 out of 100 as an aggregated score.
The lowest estimation was 2 stars out of 5 given by 'The Daily Telegraph' and the highest estimation was 4 out of 5 by 'The Irish Times'.
It is unknown for sure where Sam Smith has the Irish ancestry but some time ago, he was engaged in singing with Irish-oriented bands. We especially adore the blue-eyed-soul things by this performer.
This guy differs from the crowd as he has the Oscar received in 2016, for the best original song. He has also won 1 Golden Globe Award and four Grammy Awards. Despite the orientation of his music mostly on the adolescents, he never won any of Teen Choice Awards. But it isn't necessary if you had already won all major awards of the show business.
Having all the remarkable results, it would be absolutely easily to believe that he has the extended list of soundtracks and singles, but it is not so. He only has one album and a little bit lesser than 10 separate singles. He likes to be shot in videos, so from 2012 to 2015 he participated in several videos.

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Learn more about Sam Smith, her "Stay With Me" song, "In the Lonely Hour" her the debut studio album