Millions of streams, thousands of screaming fans and never walking the streets anonymously again: Samuel Welten looks back on the year of his big breakthrough

After a few weeks at secondary vocational education, he thought it was a good thing. Samuel Welten threw away his schoolbooks, jumped on his bicycle and never returned. The singer had his breakthrough this year with the monster hit Real love is for sale, which has been streamed more than 45 million times on Spotify. The 19-year-old owes that success to a rock legend, who gave him advice he would rather not hear.

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