{"id":117245,"date":"2024-03-05T18:03:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T18:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/05\/sam-smith-celebrates-streaming-milestone-for-breakthrough-hit-stay-with-me\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T18:03:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T18:03:06","slug":"sam-smith-celebrates-streaming-milestone-for-breakthrough-hit-stay-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/05\/sam-smith-celebrates-streaming-milestone-for-breakthrough-hit-stay-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Smith celebrates streaming milestone for breakthrough hit &#8220;Stay With Me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-05\/M_SamSmithStaywithMe_030524.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Capitol Records<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><strong>Sam Smith<\/strong> is celebrating a milestone for their breakthrough hit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">&#8220;Stay With Me has reached 2 Billion streams. My heart is bursting with gratitude and happiness at this news,&#8221; the Oscar-winning singer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samsmith\/status\/1765028947325006289?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><strong>wrote on social media<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">. &#8220;I can\u2019t thank everyone enough for the love and kindness you have showed this song.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">&#8220;A massive shout out to [my co-writers]\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimmynapes\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><strong>@jimmynapes<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"> and <strong>Tourist<\/strong>,&#8221; they added. &#8220;Who would have thought a moment with friends in that studio in Old Street would turn into this. Life is a wild one.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">&#8220;Stay With Me,&#8221; released in 2014, was Sam&#8217;s most successful single to date, reaching #2 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"> Hot 100 and winning the Grammys for Record and Song of the Year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">In 2015, a settlement was reached to add rockers <strong>Tom Petty<\/strong> and <strong>Jeff Lynne<\/strong> to the credits of the song, after Petty&#8217;s publisher noticed that the song&#8217;s melody was similar to Petty&#8217;s 1989 song &#8220;I Won&#8217;t Back Down.&#8221; Sam had actually never heard &#8220;I Won&#8217;t Back Down&#8221; prior to writing &#8220;Stay With Me&#8221; but acknowledged the similarities between the two tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Records Sam Smith is celebrating a milestone for their breakthrough hit. &#8220;Stay With Me has reached 2 Billion streams. My heart is bursting with gratitude and happiness at this news,&#8221; the Oscar-winning singer wrote on social media. &#8220;I can\u2019t thank everyone enough for the love and kindness you have<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/05\/sam-smith-celebrates-streaming-milestone-for-breakthrough-hit-stay-with-me\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}