Rising pop star Myles Smith can still remember the first time he felt famous.

“This might sound trivial,” says the singer, “but I was playing a concert where I asked the audience, ‘Does anyone have cookies?’

“And within about 10 minutes, the whole dressing room was full of cookies.

“It was the best thing ever.”

Since that gig, the 26-year-old’s career has only grown bigger.

Last year, he scored his first major hit with Stargazing, a feel-good foot-stomper that became the biggest-selling British single of 2024, and even featured on Barack Obama’s end of year playlist.

Now, he’s been voted into fourth place on BBC Radio 1’s Sound of 2025, marking him out as one of the year’s most promising new talents.

And in March, he’ll receive the Brit Awards’ Rising Star prize – following in the footsteps of Sam Fender, Adele and Rag ‘N’ Bone Man.

Smith confesses he learned about the accolade while in the grip of a ferocious hangover.

“The night before, I’d tried to go drink-for-drink with some people who were a lot more experienced than me, and we actually had to call a doctor to my Airbnb,” he cringes.

“Finding out I’d got a Brit Award brought me back to life more than any vitamin C ever could.”

It was, he says “the most LA I’ve ever felt”.

It’s certainly a long way from his upbringing in Luton.