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Chartbreaker: ‘Stargazing’ Is a Radio Hit for Myles Smith, But His Sights Are Set Higher: ‘I Want To Be an Album Artist’

Myles Smith's 'Stargazing' has become the pop singer's first Hot 100 hit and is growing at radio. Meet Billboard's July 2024 Chartbreaker.

He has also been announced as a supporting act for select dates on Imagine Dragons’ upcoming fall tour, and will jet to Australia and New Zealand in November for his own headlining trek, which has sold out shows across Europe and North America. As a kid born to a Jamaican family in Luton, England, Smith consumed a wide-ranging selection of genres: Reggae was a mainstay, but between his mother’s love for Whitney Houston’s “Million Dollar Bill” and his siblings’ indoctrination of Destiny’s Child, Ne-Yo and Justin Timberlake, he listened to plenty of R&B. With a growing online fan base by 2023, Smith was independently releasing his own singles through Ditto Music, including early tracks like the thumping “My Home” and the witty wordplay fest “Solo”(his first U.K. chart hit).

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