{"id":520593,"date":"2023-01-16T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T05:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=520593"},"modified":"2023-01-26T05:16:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T05:16:03","slug":"lewis-capaldi-outpoints-raye-in-u-k-chart-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/lewis-capaldi-outpoints-raye-in-u-k-chart-race","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Capaldi Outpoints Raye In U.K. Chart&#160;Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a tight chart race which saw Raye take an early lead, it&#8217;s Lewis Capaldi who takes the U.K. crown with &#8220;Pointless&#8221; (via Vertigo). The Scottish singer songwriter bags his fourth No. 1, as &#8220;Pointless,&#8221; co-written by Ed Sheeran, finishes just 1,200 combined sales ahead of its closest competition, Raye&#8217;s independently-released hit &#8220;Escapism&#8221; (Human Re Sources), featuring 070 Shake. &#8220;Pointless&#8221; improves 15-1 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, published Jan. 13 , powered by physical and digital download sales, the Official Charts Company reports, as &#8220;Escapism&#8221; dips 1-2. &#8220;Pointless&#8221; is the second single lifted from his upcoming second studio album Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent , slated to drop in May. &#8220;4 u.k. number 1&#8217;s!!!!. Over the moon to finally have as many number 1&#8217;s as a do STI&#8217;s,&#8221; he quips on social media. 4 uk number 1&#8217;s!!!! over the moon to finally have as many number 1&#8217;s as a do STI&#8217;s &#127942;x pic.twitter.com\/LLT78Oh0fG &#8212; Lewis Capaldi (@LewisCapaldi)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a tight chart race which saw Raye take an early lead, it&#8217;s Lewis Capaldi who takes the U.K. crown with &#8220;Pointless&#8221; (via Vertigo). The Scottish singer songwriter bags his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}