Charlie Puth: 2024 Artist Discussion

[SHOOTER]

1. That's Hilarious
2. Charlie Be Quiet!
3. Light Switch
4. There’s a First Time for Everything
5. Smells Like Me
6. Left and Right (with Jung Kook)
7. Loser
8. When You’re Sad I’m Sad
9. Marks on My Neck
10. Tears on My Piano
11. I Don’t Think That I Like Her
12. No More Drama

Charlie's self-titled third album will be released on October 7th, 2022.


(#1 Singapore; #9 Adult Top 40; #13 AC; #25 UK Singles; #27 Hot 100)


(#2 New Zealand Hot Singles; #100 UK Singles; #109 Hot 100)


(#1 India; #1 Philippines; #1 Vietnam Hot 100; #11 Adult Top 40; #15 South Korea; #22 Hot 100; #41 UK Singles)

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1. The Way I Am
2. Attention
3. LA Girls
4. How Long
5. Done for Me feat. Kehlani
6. Patient
7. If You Leave Me Now feat. Boyz II Men
8. BOY
9. Slow It Down
10. Change feat. James Taylor
11. Somebody Told Me
12. Empty Cups
13. Through It All

Charlie's sophomore album, Voicenotes, was released on May 11, 2018. It debuted on the Billboard 200 at #4 with 58k SPS (39k sales) and has been certified Gold. It also received a 2019 Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (losing to Beck's Colors).


(#1 Adult Top 40; #5 Hot 100; #6 AC; #9 Rhythmic; #9 UK Singles)


(#2 Adult Top 40; #9 UK Singles; #13 AC; #21 Hot 100; #25 Rhythmic)


(#11 Adult Top 40; #25 AC; #35 Rhythmic; #45 UK Singles; #53 Hot 100)


(#14 Sweden Heatseeker)


(#9 Adult Top 40; #25 AC; #61 Hot 100)

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1. One Call Away
2. Dangerously
3. Marvin Gaye feat. Meghan Trainor
4. Losing My Mind
5. We Don't Talk Anymore feat. Selena Gomez
6. My Gospel
7. Up All Night
8. Left Right Left
9. Then There's You
10. Suffer
11. As You Are feat. Shy Carter
12. Some Type of Love

13. River
14. Does It Feel
15. Nothing But Trouble (Instagram Models) [Dance Remix]

Charlie's debut album, Nine Track Mind, was released on January 29, 2016. It debuted on the Billboard 200 at #6 with 65k sales and has been certified 2x Platinum.


(#1 UK Singles; #12 Adult Top 40; #21 Hot 100; #27 AC)


(#1 Adult Top 40; #3 Rhythmic; #3 AC; #12 Hot 100; #26 UK Singles)


(#9 Hot 100; #9 Adult Top 40; #11 AC; #14 UK Singles)


(#5 Belgium; #10 New Zealand Heatseekers)

[wavey.]

Such a boo.

[K.]

One Call Away is really close to being a hit....but I don't think it's quite there. I want to like it, but I feel like it drags. I'm going to look out for his album, though.

[steevy]

he sounds like a wannabee sam smith which is really weird since sam isn't really " original".

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

He's ugly and generic. I don't get his appeal

[George]

Ohmy, that's not a flattering photo of him. I mean, I'd be happy if they just recycled his "Marvin Gaye" or "Some Type of Love EP" covers:

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

Is that eyebrow thing congenital or is he doing that on purpose?

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Aug 25, 2015 6:38:01 GMT -5 YourFaveIsAFlop said:

Is that eyebrow thing congenital or is he doing that on purpose?

It's a scar from a dog bite.

[H.]

I like how old school the EP cover is.

[George]

Pushed back to January 29th.

www.marketwired.com/press-release/charlie-puth-to-release-nine-track-mind-january-29-2076396.htm

[Kurt]

Tracklist updated to include that Selena Gomez song "We Don't Talk Anymore," along with some other shuffling and additions:
1. One Call Away
2. Dangerously
3. Marvin Gaye (feat. Meghan Trainor)
4. Losing My Mind
5. We Don't Talk Anymore
6. My Gospel
7. Up All Night
8. Left Right Left
9. Then There's You
10. Suffer
11. As You Are (feat. Shy Carter)
12. Some Type Of Love

[Music Fan]

I really like Charlie. I wouldn't consider myself a fan, yet.. but I'm definitely looking forward to the full length album.

[It's me, bitch.]

Jan 2, 2016 2:04:47 GMT -5 Music Fan said:

I really like Charlie. I wouldn't consider myself a fan, yet.. but I'm definitely looking forward to the full length album.

That's nice

[damita34]

Just bought the album, will give it a listen tomorrow

[It's me, bitch.]

Some type of love is the best full track i have heard so far.

[Heart Shaped Box]

Was very underwhelmed by this, sadly. Suffer and Let's ... are brilliant but nothing else is as strong as those two - and we've had those songs forever it seems. Shame.

[SHOOTER]

#4 on iTunes.

[Ivy Leegue™]

It seems the consensus on Poof's album is that it's pretty basic, but I am not that surprised. Then again, I did (and still do) enjoy M-Train's album so maybe there is hope. Not rushing to buy this based on what I have heard so far though. Plus, the standard is being sold at Best Buy for $11.99 so...unless there are nekkid pics in the booklet...

[areyoureadytojump]

UK midweeks - Saturday

Albums

1 Sia
2 Charlie Puth
3 Rihanna

[BadRomance]

I actually really like the album, I love his voice.

[Ivy Leegue™]

Yeah...I decided to bypass this at Best Buy and download instead. WOW. This dude really has no charisma or anything special about his voice WHATSOEVER. Marvin Gaye is the best thing on here. Suffer is...decent. It sounds like a low-grade Robin Thicke song. It's so weird to hear someone who is clearly horny but still sound sexless as fuck. Dry..me a desert. Oh...also, the version that I downloaded cut off Then There's You after like 15 seconds LOL but I don't even know if it's worth finding a better version online.

[Music Fan]

Jan 2, 2016 2:04:47 GMT -5 Music Fan said:

I really like Charlie. I wouldn't consider myself a fan, yet.. but I'm definitely looking forward to the full length album.

And I agree with most of you, there's nothing special about the album. I don't think it's a bad album by any means, I quite like some songs (Marvin Gaye and We Don't Talk Anymore, mainly), but it just passes by as another album you'd potentially listen to every now and then without any excitement to hear it over and over again.

[layne]

This isn't bad. My favorite is "My Gospel"

[SHOOTER]

Per HITS:

Charlie Puth (Artist Partner Group) 45-50k, 60-65k

[Ivy Leegue™]

Yeah...that makes sense. I didn't know his singles haven't even gone top 10, despite SYA's success. Damn. He should just go into porn.

[wavey.]

Feb 1, 2016 19:49:29 GMT -5 Ivy Leegue™ said:

Yeah...that makes sense. I didn't know his singles haven't even gone top 10, despite SYA's success. Damn. He should just go into porn.

I know! He's so damn sexy.

[Ivy Leegue™]

Via Pitchfork, who gave it a generous 2.5 out of 10:

There are 12 tracks on Charlie Puth’s debut album Nine Track Mind, which is either three or 12 too many. But no matter; the album is a smoothly executed pitch deck of exactly what will perform on pop radio in 2016, and Puth—pronounced "Pooth," and the slice through his right eyebrow is from a childhood canine attack, if you’re wondering—will do just fine. The 24-year-old Berklee College of Music graduate and former YouTube star of the acoustic-cover variety has already had three top 40 singles, all since last February: first, the demonic Meghan Trainor duet "Marvin Gaye," then, the Paul Walker Memorial Beanie Baby track "See You Again" (featuring Wiz Khalifa), then "One Call Away," an ocean of syrup that sounds exactly like "See You Again," and is the first song on the LP.

Charlie Puth is extremely talented, it must be said. There’s that Berklee degree, of course, and the fact that he wrote so many theme songs for famous vloggers before he signed to Atlantic. Puth co-wrote every song on Nine Track Mind and produced much of it solo, and the songwriting and the arrangements and the engineering are shockingly proficient, proficient to the point of insensation. Also, there is Puth’s voice, a beautiful tenor/falsetto soaring out of a throat that never coughs that frog out and as such must be magical. In other words, Charlie Puth is a truly excellent product, the type of artist that inspires wildly confident emails from anyone getting a cut. "Wrote the hook in 10 minutes," you can imagine his A&R tapping out on an iPhone (Puth did, he says, for "See You Again"). "Video’s going to be just Paul Walker clips and the Wiz verse, guaranteed smash, gonna do a billion on YouTube." And it did.

Like the best-selling (i.e. blandest) model home in the up-and-coming suburb, Nine Track Mind is demoralizingly well-constructed as a means to an end, and it’s because of Puth’s considerable abilities, and not in spite of them, that the album induces such despair. It doesn’t help that Nine Track Mind is all ballads except for three tracks, two of which are duets (Trainor, a sleepy Selena Gomez) that somehow still feel like ballads. Puth cannot fill this frame of sentimentality with any genuine sentiment: The album’s emotional range covers the spectrum from light longing to light infatuation, contributing to the overall sense that Nine Track Mind is aimed exclusively at hairlessness: children, prepubescents, the discomfitingly waxed.

As he showed us in "Marvin Gaye," Puth lives for retro flourishes: doo-wop rhythms, sock-hop melodies, finger snaps, arpeggiated singalong piano. The album doesn’t deviate much from this safe spot; when it does, it goes blander ("Up All Night" is completely self-effacing) or, pleasantly, Ryan Tedder-er ("My Gospel" is a nicely rumbling One Republic facsimile), or, even more pleasantly, somewhat close to Justin Timberlake territory. "Suffer" is a credibly lustful piece of pleading, and "Losing My Mind" begins with a lovely, distorted Timbaland-lite riff that rings like a bell over Puth, who gets to take a welcome break from his falsetto. The latter track sounds like the work of an award-winning college acapella group; it is the album’s strongest track.

As for the rest? "Left Right Left," a love-ish song that sounds like accidentally holding hands with a coworker, is a ballad that assumes no one will listen to it. If you did, you’d hear Charlie Puth encouraging his romantic interest—"We’re almost there, baby, one more step"—to bravely overcome the obstacle of Charlie Puth, who is dealing with a set of problems that includes "walls," "long roads," and "climbing." There is a classic track in the So Sweet The Neg Will Be Invisible genre (it’s called "Then There’s You," and the chorus goes "There’s beautiful and then there’s you"). There is also a series of increasingly unnecessary vows scattered throughout the album: Puth promises to save the day, to never sleep alone, to stay perfectly still when the world is on fire, and then, in "My Gospel," he goes nuclear. "I’d stroll into a bank and put a ski mask on and walk out with a million bucks," he blusters. "Then I’d burn it in a pile out on your front lawn, just to prove it didn’t mean that much."

That lyric couplet has the approximate relationship to joy and meaning as the rest of this album does, generally. Later in the same track, Puth promises to "carry your body to the top of the tower to kiss your lips at midnight." What a tempting offer, and a typical one, in which your best case scenario is unconsciousness. You’d have to be completely sensible to pass.

#eviscerated

[Glove Slap]

Yo this is getting dragged in the reviews.

[Ivy Leegue™]

Well...when the most memorable song on the album has a chorus of "Let's Marvin Gaye and get it on," what do you expect?

[SHOOTER]

Debuts at #5 with 48k (#5 with 64k SPS) per HITS.