Artist Paloma Faith will host her own show on smoothfm from Saturday 9 August.

Paloma’s voice has seen her rapidly rise to the top of the Australian charts, with her latest single Only Love Can Hurt Like This currently holding the number one spot on both the Aria and iTunes charts. Paloma’s current album through Sony Music Entertainment, A Perfect Contradiction, is her most successful to date and includes the top 10 singles Can’t Rely on You and Only Love Can Hurt Like This.

Her debut album Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? was released in 2009, reaching number nine in the United Kingdom and achieving double platinum status.

In 2012 she released her second studio album Fall To Grace which debuted at number two on the UK charts and lead to her first Top 10 single Picking Up the Pieces.

She has received three BRIT nominations including British Female Solo Artist and Best British Album.

Rohan Brown, smoothfm Program Director said, “Paloma is one of the hottest recording artists in the world right now, smooth listeners are loving her smooth discovery Only Love Can Hurt Like This and it is tremendous that she has agreed to join the weekend lineup.”

Paloma is the latest in a list of high profile artists who have joined smoothfm to host their own weekend shows including Michael Bublé, Olivia Newton-John, Keith Urban, Seal and Ronan Keating.