Lewis Capaldi realises irony of his number one song Before You Go as Brexit finally happens - Lates

Thanks for watching my video. <br />If you like my videos, please subscribe to the channel to receive the latest videos <br />Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use (https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/).  It’s a bittersweet day for Lewis Capaldi who is celebrating a new number one single but mourning the UK leaving the European Union as Brexit became official tonight.  The Scottish singer has earned this week’s number one single with his new ballad Before You Go, beating the likes of Eminem, The Weeknd and Stormzy to the top spot.  But as Brexit celebrations erupted across the country as the clock struck 11 on Friday night (31 January), it dawned on him the irony of his song title.  You know… Before You Go… because we’ve left… never mind.  Celebrating and commiserating in equal measure, Lewis shared a selfie of his curious face with the caption: ‘Just realised my song is number one on the day Brexit happens and it’s called ‘Before You Go”.’  The singer then quipped: ‘If u don’t laugh you’ll cry.’  It’s the second number one single from Lewis, 23, whose global smash Someone You Loved was released last year and is believed to have been written about Love Island star Paige Turley.    Before You Go has shifted 66,000 combined sales including 13,000 physical copies of the single.  Reacting to the news, Lewis told the Official Charts: ‘You know, it’s so nice to kinda get another one in the bag – second number one, for my song Before You Go – and it means the world. Thank you so much if you went and bought it.    ‘Obviously, becoming number one is absolutely everything to me and I would be disgusted if I had the number two spot. It’d be absolutely gross. I’m so glad I’m not that guy.  ‘If I did, I don’t know what I would do. I’d probably go home, cry into my hands and just have a really, really awful time. So thank you so much.’  Before You Go was written about his aunt who sadly died by suicide.  Speaking on Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 Radio, Lewis explained: ‘The song’s kind of, it comes from a place of … it’s about suicide and it’s about not necessarily the act of it itself obviously, but people after it happens, the aftermath of it and people blaming themselves or starting to think, what could I have done to help that person? Or whatever.’  MORE: Lewis Capaldi lands second number one with Before You Go, would be ‘disgusted’ with number two  MORE: Lewis Capaldi was told ‘you can go’ by woman who mistook him for Grammys seat-filler