Luton-born up and coming singer-songwriter Myles Smith has revealed in a recent exclusive interview with Guitar.com that he would love to, one day, collab with Ed Sheeran; furthermore, he also added that he aims to eventually collaborate with Mumford and Sons and ‘Stick Season’ star Noah Kahan. In the interview, Smith said: “I’d love to have a song with Ed, one with Mumford and Sons, and Noah Kahan.” The artist’s most recent collaboration, titled ‘Waste’ featured James Bay.
Smith first attracted popularity and acclaim over TikTok, where some of his covers went viral; the videos caught the attention of music labels such as RCA, with which the artist eventually signed. Before making this big jump in the music industry, the artist wanted to be sure of who he was and what he was doing: “I didn’t ever want to go to a major label without fully knowing who I was, what I wanted to be, and how I wanted to present myself to the world. I had a lot of grasp of who I was as a person, as an artist, and so I wasn’t comfortable doing anything before that point.”
Ever since, he has released various EPs including, most recently, ‘A Minute‘, which was released in late 2024 and peaked at number 63 in the UK.
Smith is perhaps best known for his hit song ‘Stargazing’, which peaked at number four in the UK and spent 37 weeks charting. The song was included in Smith’s debut EP titled ‘You Promised a Lifetime’. The song was then confirmed by Official Charts as the biggest single of 2024 by a British Artist.
Despite the singer-songwriter’s music heavily falls into the folk genre, the artist told Guitar.com that he “doesn’t want to be put in a box”, further explaining the statement saying: “It’s nice that I’m being recognised and that my music’s going far and wide, but I also never want to box myself into one category. It’s about treading the line of accepting and embracing the music that I make and the things I love to do, but also letting people know that there are many angles and different shades of what I do.”
The delicate and honest storytelling present in each of Smith’s songs have made the artist the voice of a generation who feels a lot, and the artist recognises this: in fact, he is used to people coming up to him and telling him his music changed their lives. About his songwriting, Smith says: “I feel like I only write songs when I have something to say or when I have something meaningful to contribute to the world, then they have become a nice snapshot of where I’m at at the time.”
