"Stay With Me", released on 14 April 2014, is from Sam Smith's debut studio album In the Lonely Hour (2014). It's a gospel-inspired ballad that details the protagonist pleading with his one-night stand not to leave him. The music legends Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne receiving co-writer credits due to the song's similarity to Petty's single "I Won't Back Down". In an interview Sam Smith said that the song was written in a studio in Old Street with James Napier and William Phillips. The latter started playing with three chords on the piano, and Napier quickly provided a drum pattern, and according to Sam Smith, "the song just flowed out of us so naturally." After finishing the song, he started to layer his vocal about 20 times, singing in different parts of the studio and harmonizing. The result sounded like a gospel choir, but all from his own voice, and this demo was then used in the released song. The single topped the charts in United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand, in the USA it reached no.2. At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, "Stay With Me" won two Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.