Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi has had a lot to celebrate all year, with his single “Someone You Loved” spending seven consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the UK and then pond-hopping to soar up the US charts, recently hitting No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

But when he called The Post on his 23rd birthday earlier this week, he had another wish to make before blowing out any candles. “I’m hoping that this is the year I’ll finally lose my virginity,” Capaldi says with a laugh over the phone from Montreal, where his tour stopped before hitting Brooklyn Steel on Friday. “I’ll keep my fingers crossed.”

Certainly, Capaldi has lost his virginity in the upper regions of the music charts: After his debut album, the cheekily titled “Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent,” was released in May, it went to No. 1 in the UK and stayed there for six weeks. And now the LP’s big single, “Someone You Loved,” has put Capaldi in the same company as such hot acts as Lizzo, Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X in the US.

“It feels lovely; it feels like I might make enough money to move out of my parents’ house next year,” he says. “But it’s very weird to see my name up with those people. If it’s a one-hit-wonder thing . . . at least it happened [once].”

Although “Someone You Loved” — which was the last tune that Capaldi wrote for his debut LP — may feel like a breakup song, the piano ballad wasn’t conceived as such.

“The song is about people in my family passing away in my adult life — people like my grandmother,” he explains. “We only get to know them properly toward our late teens and early 20s. We get to know them on a more personal level. And it’s a shame they pass away [then]. It’s the nature of life, I suppose.”

But Capaldi is happy if listeners are relating to “Someone You Loved” as a breakup song. “It’s just a different kind of breakup, where someone gets torn away from you,” he says. “The song is broad enough that people can find their own meaning to it.”

Capaldi found meaning in music after he started playing guitar at 9 while growing up in Glasgow. He began singing in pubs when he was only 11 because he was itching to get onstage. “The first opportunity I got to play people music was in pubs,” he says. “I used to have to lie about my age.”

His choice of venue helped him to develop a more powerful instrument. “My voice is very loud,” Capaldi says, “and I think that comes from singing in the pubs, because if you wanted to be heard, you had to be f–king loud.”

And he worked hard to give his voice its Joe Cocker-esque rasp that imbues his music with both soul and an old soul. “I’ve always loved husky voices, voices that have gravel in them,” says Capaldi. “After a few years of constantly trying to make myself have this rasp, it just kind of fell into place.”

You can also hear echoes of “Someone Like You,” Adele’s smash piano ballad, in the similarly titled “Someone You Loved.” “There’s nothing wrong with being compared to someone as talented as Adele. I f–king love that!” says Capaldi. “I’m very flattered that people would think that my song is in any way similar to Adele’s song. It’d be nice if I had Adele’s money, but I don’t. Maybe in the future.”