Sam Smith's month keeps getting better. After earning six Grammy nominations for his album In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith has reached another major milestone. The album has at last sold a million copies and has been certified platinum by the RIAA, according to a press release. In addition to selling 1 million copies with physical and digital download sales, the album has eclipsed that mark and sold an additional million when factoring track and album stream equivalents as computed by Nielsen SoundScan.
Sam Smith has been arguably the biggest breakout artist of 2014. First tabbed by Disclosure to sing on their hit single "Latch" in 2012, the 23-year-old started to build a fan base in 2013, before his single "Stay with Me" was released earlier this year in April and has since gone four times platinum and stayed near the top of the charts for the better part of the year.
He was nominated for six Grammys: two for In the Lonely Hour for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album and three for "Stay with Me," which garnered nominations for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. He was also nominated for Best New Artist.
His six Grammy nominations put him in elite company, as he is the first male artist in 34 years to land in the "Big Four" categories with the release of a debut album.
Sam Smith is in the midst of an arena tour across North America that has him stop at the legendary Madison Square Garden tonight before continuing to Montreal, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle and capping off the tour in Vancouver.
2014 has been an incredible year for Sam Smith, but now the challenge for him is to build off this year's success and try and exceed them in 2015.
