Lewis Capaldi is back - New single Survive & video out now

After two years away from the spotlight, global superstar Lewis Capaldi today makes his extremely welcome return with new single Survive - a bold, brave new anthem that underscores a challenging period in his career, that ended at Glastonbury 2023 in an extremely tough, but special unifying moment as the Pyramid Stage crowd helped carry an emotional Capaldi over the finish line.

"Most nights I fear that Im not enough, Ive had my share of Monday mornings when I cant get up" sings Capaldi in a huge, hair-raising and brutally honest track that addresses mental health challenges of self-doubt & despair, but comes out swinging in a chorus full of defiance - "I swear to God Ill survive, if it kills me to, Im gonna get up and try, if its the last thing Ill do"

Listen to Survive HERE & watch the official video, directed by Henry Dockrill (Sam Fender, Post Malone) HERE.

Survive also sees Lewis re-united with close collaborator Romans, who co-wrote his global megahit Someone You Loved, that extraordinarily turned 10x Platinum earlier this year.

The new track arrives off the back of a run of Scottish warm up shows in May that saw Lewis return to the stage as a guest of mental health charity CALM, in celebration of Mental Health Awareness Week.

With no pressure, and no level of expectation, the shows allowed Capaldi the space to gauge his comfort and emotional
response before returning to the spotlight - a move which ended up proving nothing short of a triumph.

Lewis last release, the hit-stacked record Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent, scored him his second UK number 1 album, creating another three heartbreaking UK number 1 singles, Pointless, Wish You The Best and the Platinum-certified Forget Me, working with hitmakers including Max Martin (Taylor Swift, The Weeknd), Malay (Lorde, Frank Ocean), and longtime collaborator Phil Plested (James Bay, Bastille).

The album also gained widespread critical acclaim from the likes of The Guardian, New York Times, NME, Rolling Stone, GQ, Stereogum & many more. It also topped airplay charts, smashing an impressive 95,000 units, outselling the rest of that weeks Top 10 combined, as well as outselling first week sales of his own monumental debut album Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent.

April 2023 saw the global Netflix release of Lewis compelling, raw and honest feature-length, GRAMMY®-nominated music documentary Lewis Capaldi: How Im Feeling Now - available to watch on the platform now. The documentary shot straight to the top of the Netflix chart, making it the most watched film on the platform since its release.

Lewis subsequent success stems back to 2019s multimillion selling debut Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, which propelled Capaldi from bedroom musician to superstar. Few had seen a debut release quite like it, becoming the biggest selling UK album of both 2019 & 2020, spawning two UK number 1 singles, bagging a few BRITs and a GRAMMY nomination, with one of those number 1s becoming a smash hit on both sides of the globe in Someone You Loved, which as well as recently going 10x Platinum, is also the UKs most streamed song of all time & the worlds fourth highest ever streamed song.

After weathering the kind of storm that few can prepare for, Lewis Capaldi returns with a renewed sense of purpose. Survive proves that even in the darkest moments, theres still strength in showing up. As he marks a new era, Lewis isnt just surviving, hes returning even stronger, heart wide open, and ready to step out again.

Photo by Charlie Sarsfield.

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