Tone Stith’s latest single, “Girls Like You,” is now a top 10 hit on Billboard.
The lovelorn tune makes a debut at No. 6. on the R&B Digital Song Sales chart this week, led by Coco Jones’ “ICU.”
“Girls Like You,” which reached No. 1 on iTunes’ R&B Songs chart, was released on June 30 via RCA Records.
“It’s my point of view on my first heartbreak,” Sith explained to Rated R&B about the song’s inspiration. “For me, it was a really big deal. I was very green as far as love goes. The first person I was giving my all to, even though it was young love, it was like, ‘I’m here 150%.’ Then when that person stabbed my back, it was like, ‘You messed it up for everybody else. Now I got this evil side of me.”
“Girls Like You” is the lead single from his forthcoming project, P.O.V., which stands for point of view. “This next project is my point of view on love and the ups and downs in relationships,” Stith told Rated R&B in a May interview.
He added, “[It addresses] things that people are afraid to come out and say ‘cause they feel like it might be too soft or too corny. But for me, there’s a lot of toxic things going on in this world, but I wanna be the guy at the forefront that’s like, ‘Hey. It’s okay to love somebody. It’s okay to care for somebody and bet it all on somebody [even when] you don’t know the outcome.’”
P.O.V. will follow Stith’s 2021 EPs FWM and Still FWM. It’s slated to arrive in August.
Listen to “Girls Like You” by Tone Stith below.