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The UK industry’s hottest new property Myles Smith has lifted the lid on his stunning breakthrough, signing to RCA and why he’s in no hurry to release his debut album.
The Luton singer-songwriter, who covers the March edition of Music Week, has already notched up two UK Top 10 singles in Stargazing (1,147,392 sales, OCC) and Nice To Meet You (240,911 sales) and named winner of the BRITs Rising Star award for 2025, in addition to being crowned BBC Introducing Artist Of The Year.
Moreover, the 26-year-old, who will perform and is also up for Best New Artist, Song Of The Year and Pop Act at next month’s BRITs, is adamant he is in it for the long haul.
“Having two Top 10 singles in my first year has been a real highlight,” he said. “It’s been such a good feeling, not just proving it to myself but also to the people who have trusted and invested so much time in me. This is not just a moment that will come and go, it’s the start of something real and long-term.”
Indeed, despite his rapid progress to date, Smith indicated that he is taking his time with his first LP.
“I’m not sure when it’s going to come,” he said. “It’s all about carving out the time and making sure I’m in the right place. But when I get there, I want it to push the boundaries of what I’ve already put out, maybe be a bit closer to my heart, baring my soul a bit more.
“I don’t want to make music that’s just cool. I want to make music that I feel in my heart and soul could outlive me.”
I wrote [Stargazing] not thinking I needed to write a smash song, more that I was going to write something that I love
Myles Smith
Smith is currently on a headline run in the UK and Europe, including sold out London shows at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire (February 26) and Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo (March 26), and has 21 million monthly Spotify listeners, led by Stargazing’s 666m global streams and counting.
He described the track, which peaked at No.4 in the UK and cracked the US Top 20, as “a beautiful song and a beautiful moment”.
“For people to have a song that explains such a grand emotion in such a simple way, it ticks the boxes,” he said. “It just gives me reassurance that I can write good music. Of course, I’ve sat there thinking, ‘Can I do it again?’ But then I’ve had to snap myself out of it and go, ‘I’ve done it, of course I could do it again.’ I wrote it not thinking I needed to write a smash song, more that I was going to write something that I love. I enter every session with that mindset.”
Initially coming to prominence after posting cover versions on TikTok – where he has 1.6m followers and 34.5m likes – Smith became a viral sensation with his renditions of Amber Run’s I Found and The Neighbourhood’s Sweater Weather.
“It started to go stratospheric,” he recalled. “I quickly started to gain tens of thousands of followers and then hundreds of thousands of followers, all within a really short space of time.”
Smith signed to Sony Music UK’s RCA label in 2023, and has a high-ranking supporter in Sony Music UK & Ireland CEO & chairman Jason Iley.
“I’m delighted for Myles that he is doing so well, he deserves it!” Iley told Music Week. “It always comes down to the songs and he is a great songwriter. He had a very successful year globally in 2024 and there are no signs of that slowing down.”
The appreciation is mutual, with Smith expressing his gratitude for Iley’s endorsement.
“He knows my weekly schedule and he’s a true believer in what I’m doing,” said Smith. “He’s always had the same mindset from the start, that the songs matter and the music you make matters, so create as much time as you can to truly invest in making great music, because you can become known for other things, who you date, where you go, scandals… He was like, ‘If your music speaks the loudest, that’s what is most important.’”
[RCA] really cared about me as a person behind the artist, staying authentic, wanting to have my music reach millions but in the right way
Myles Smith
Smith stressed that Team RCA represented a perfect match for his values and priorities.
“One, it was music first. But two, they really cared about me as a person behind the artist, staying authentic, wanting to have my music reach millions but in the right way and in a way which is true to me,” he said
“A big part of the issues I was going through at the time, and still face somewhat right now, is that a lot of the world can box me in as being almost like an exception to the rule of a Black artist making pop music, and that could sometimes be made into a novelty or a spectacle.
“The RCA team really understood that, yes, I am a Black artist, and yes, I do have things to say about my culture and where I come from, but that shouldn’t be the focal point of who I am and what I represent. Not that that wasn’t said in other meetings I’d had, but it was something that they had actively considered. That was a real turning point for me.”
The full Myles Smith cover story, also featuring RCA co-presidents Glyn Aikins and Stacey Tang, manager Eric Parker, Sony Music Publishing’s David Ventura and more, can be read in the latest issue of Music Week. Subscribers can read it online here.
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