Published on August 19th, 2024 | by Just Jay

10 Year Anniversary Edition Of Sam Smith’s GRAMMY®-Winning, 6X Platinum Debut Album “In The Lonely Hour” Out Today Via Capitol Records

Multi-Platinum, GRAMMY®, BRIT, Golden Globe and Oscar winning artist and songwriter Sam Smith released In The Lonely Hour 10 Year Anniversary Edition via Capitol Records. the anniversary edition includes the album’s original songs with a re-recorded version of “Stay With Me,” the exclusive new track “Little Sailor,” live versions of numerous tracks and pairings with featured artists Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, A$AP Rocky and John Legend. See below for track listing.

In addition to dueting with Sam, Alicia Keys plays keyboards on their stunning version of “I’m Not The Only One” which Sam and Alicia debuted during Sam’s 2024 Pride party at Julius, the oldest gay bar in New York City. Hosted by drag icon Lady Bunny and drawing a crowd of fans and celebrity friends including Kim Petras, Dylan Mulvaney, Christian Cowan, Ella Snyder and Nick Champa, Sam and Alicia surprised guests with their rendition and the next day, they recorded the song in Alicia’s studio. Download/stream “I’m Not The Only One” (FT. Alicia Keys) HERE.

Sam Smith says, “Revisiting the start of my career has been the most incredible experience. I will always be the most proud of In The Lonely Hour as it was my first baby steps into music. I listen back to the album now and it feels like looking back at old photos, a mix of emotions, but I love the record and I still love singing these songs so much. This album was written about a period of unrequited love in my life. It’s a real life coming-of-age story. I am so honored to have worked with Alicia who is an incredible talent and a beautiful soul joining me to re-imagine such a special track to celebrate a decade of In The Lonely Hour.”

Alicia Keys adds, “I LOVED working on this with Sam! and for such a special moment! It’s been on both of our wishlists! The vibe was super intimate. We recorded it at my studio in New York. My son Egypt played Sam some keys and my son Genesis was telling jokes the whole time. Pure music, singing in the room together while I was playing piano.”

Tonight, Sam will reimagine many of the songs from the album in a BBC Proms performance, accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall in London. Sam has been working on an exclusive collaboration with Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood for this notable night, which will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

The anniversary celebration will continue throughout 2024. An interactive Memories Map, which launched in July, gives fans the opportunity to share their favorite memories of In The Lonely Hour’ and the past 10 years of Sam.

The black anchors on the map represent memories from fans around the world while the red anchors unlock exclusive behind-the-scenes content and messages from Sam.

Released in 2014, In The Lonely Hour stands as the biggest-selling UK debut album of the decade. Now certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA, it includes the breakthrough hit “Stay with Me” (certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2020), “I’m Not the Only One” (7x Platinum), “Lay Me Down” (5x Platinum) and the Platinum-certified “Money on My Mind” and “Like I Can.”

The album earned Sam a total of six GRAMMY nominations, including nods in each of the “big four” categories. Sam took home four awards: Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album, Song of the Year (for “Stay with Me”) and Record of the Year (for the Darkchild remix of “Stay with Me”).

The Associated Press gave the album a “Grade A,” hailing it as “a passionate, heart-wrenching album,” and The Washington Post observed, “‘In The Lonely Hour’ shows off every facet of Smith’s voice to goose pimple-raising effect.”

In this episode of “Song Exploder,” Sam and frequent collaborator Jimmy Napes tell the story of how “Stay With Me” began, and how it turned into the hit that it became. And then, years later, how it changed again, heard on the re-recorded version found on the album’s 10 year anniversary edition.

Sam Smith is one of the most celebrated musical artists to emerge in recent history. A portrait of the five-time GRAMMY® winner, created by Pierre et Gilles, was recently unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Sam holds two Guinness World Records– for the most consecutive weeks in the U.K .Top 10 Album Chart (for their 2014 debut, In The Lonely Hour) and for having the first James Bond Theme to reach No.1 on the U.K. charts (for the Oscar and Golden Globe-winning “Writing’s on the Wall”). Sam has amassed over 49 million adjusted album sales, 300 million single sales and 84 billion career streams across their catalog of critically acclaimed albums In The Lonely Hour, The Thrill of It All, Love Goes and GLORIA, which Rolling Stone praised as “their deepest album yet.” Sam’s latest GRAMMY®-winning, Platinum single “Unholy” feat. Kim Petras spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Sam has sold out numerous headline tours worldwide and is currently touring the 2024 iteration of their GLORIA show with GLORIA – The.Blackout. This summer, Sam will be performing at many of Europe’s biggest festivals.

Sam is also the creator of “The Pink House,” an overarching new brand inspired by the home they grew up in. Under the roof of “The Pink House,” they are in the process of building a charitable foundation intended to provide support for people within the LGBTQIA+ community. In addition, they have launched a podcast, which finds Sam sitting down with an amazing cast of friends and queer cultural icons, including Elliot Page, Laverne Cox and Gloria Estefan.

All versions of the commemorative edition will include the album’s original 10 songs plus an exclusive new track “Little Sailor.” A total of 26 tracks will appear on The Collector’s Edition 4 LP and the Standard Double CD, including live versions of the album’s original songs.

Track Listing – In The Lonely Hour (10 Year Anniversary) – Digital Album