Teddy Swims has taken “Lose Control” a million certified units past Diamond. The Recording Industry Association of America awarded the single 11× Platinum on November 5, 2026, less than a year after it reached Diamond on November 21, 2025. The new award recognizes at least 11 million US units across downloads and eligible streams.
Before “Lose Control,” Swims already knew people would turn up to hear him sing. Getting them to ask for one of his own songs was the harder part. Fans who had discovered his covers online would come to shows wanting to hear him sing Shania Twain. His manager, Luke Conway, told Music Business Worldwide that Swims had worked on some 800 to 900 originals before he wrote the one that would become his first No. 1.
Producer Julian Bunetta had been writing with Swims since early 2020. At a four day writing session in Palm Springs, he had a particular idea about how to use that voice. As Bunetta told Variety, he was thinking about the opening of “Fallin’” by Alicia Keys and how quickly a few sung notes could grab a listener. You can hear what he was after in the chorus of “Lose Control.” Swims stretches the word “lose” across a run of notes, and for a moment the whole song hangs on that one syllable.
Swims had a reason to make the line sound desperate. He told iHeartRadio that the song grew out of a relationship where substance use and dependence on each other had become hard to separate. He could recognize that they were bad for each other and still want to be with the same person when things fell apart.
Warner Records released “Lose Control” on June 23, 2023, ahead of Swims’ debut album, I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1). It entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 99 that August. Conway recalled a stretch of early morning radio appearances, interviews and gigs as the single worked its way up. In its 32nd week, on the chart dated March 30, 2024, it reached No. 1. It held that spot for just one week. The more unusual feat came afterward, when it became the first song in Hot 100 history to spend 100 weeks on the chart. Its run reached 112.
By October 10, 2026, a Philadelphia crowd was doing some of the singing for him. Swims saved “Lose Control” for late in his set at Xfinity Mobile Arena. As Matt Christine reported in Rock Documented’s review of the show, the audience knew every word. For long stretches, they sang as loudly as Swims did.
