Test your knowledge of Sam Smith's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
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From the piano of 'Stay with Me' to the strut of 'Unholy', Sam Smith's biggest songs give themselves away fast. Call each one a ballad or a banger and the easy points are yours.
The facts behind the hits decide the close rounds: an Oscar-winning Bond theme, four Grammys in one night, and a co-writer added to 'Stay with Me' after a Tom Petty song came up. Details that break a tie.
Sam Smith's catalog splits in two: the funeral-slow ballads that won the awards, and the club hits that came later. Start on the side you know, then test yourself on the one you don't.
Start here for the easy points. 'Stay with Me', 'I'm Not the Only One', 'Too Good at Goodbyes' and the Bond theme 'Writing's on the Wall' are slow, huge and unmistakably Sam Smith. Most players name these from the first piano chord, so this is the pile that opens any round in your favour.
Then the mood inverts. 'Unholy' with Kim Petras, the Calvin Harris house cut 'Promises' and 'Dancing with a Stranger' with Normani are built for a club, not a good cry. Same voice, opposite energy, so the trap is assuming a Sam Smith track has to be a ballad.
Before the solo hits, Smith was the guest voice. Disclosure's 'Latch' and Naughty Boy's 'La La La' put that high, aching falsetto on dance tracks in 2012 and 2013, before 'Stay with Me' existed. Knowing those came first is what separates real fans in a guess-the-song round.
The hardest points sit off the singles: 'Leave Your Lover' and 'Life Support' from In the Lonely Hour, 'Burning' and 'Pray' from The Thrill of It All, and 'Kids Again' from Gloria. Place one of these from a short clip and you are in the top tier of any Sam Smith quiz.
Play the Sam Smith quiz and see. Guess the song from a short clip and answer questions across the ballads and the club hits. The catch is the range: knowing 'Stay with Me' is no help on 'Unholy'.
The ballads everyone knows, 'Stay with Me', 'I'm Not the Only One', 'Too Good at Goodbyes' and 'Writing's on the Wall', plus the dancefloor hits 'Unholy', 'Promises' and 'Dancing with a Stranger' that trip people up.
Easy on the slow songs, harder on the club era. Smith's voice sounds the same whether the track is a tearjerker or a banger, so the mood of a clip will not tell you which era it comes from.
That is the whole game. 'Lay Me Down' and 'Leave Your Lover' sit worlds apart from 'Promises' and 'Unholy', yet all four are Sam Smith. Placing a clip on the right side is what pushes a good score to a perfect one.
Sam Smith was born Samuel Frederick Smith in London in 1992 and raised in Cambridgeshire. Smith is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.
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