Charlie (Charlie Puth album)

Since the release of his second studio album Voicenotes (2018), Puth released and was featured on a number of singles between 2019 and 2021. He dropped three standalone singles that were meant for the album in 2019; "I Warned Myself", "Mother", and "Cheating on You". He dropped two more standalone singles in 2020; "Girlfriend", and "Hard on Yourself", the latter featuring Blackbear. He also released "Free" as a single from the 2020 film The One and Only Ivan. Puth featured in "Summer Feelings" with Lennon Stella for the soundtrack for the 2020 film Scoob!, and featured on singles with Jvke, Sasha Alex Sloan, and Elton John. He also appeared on the remix of Gabby Barrett's single "I Hope", which helped the song peak at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Puth's fourth top ten hit.

After deciding to scrap the original version of his third album in 2020 due to poor performances and reviews of the singles he had released since Voicenotes, Puth took a moment to "recalibrate", and became inspired to tease the makings of the songs he was making, causing him to tease nearly the entire album on TikTok, which made several of the songs go viral on the app.^[4] Puth stated that he almost named the album Conversation with Myself due to the isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.^[5]

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Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	81/100[15]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[16]
Clash	6/10[17]
The Line of Best Fit	8/10[1]
Rolling Stone	[18]
The Daily Telegraph	[19]

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At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, Charlie received a weighted average score of 81, indicating "universal acclaim", based on five critical reviews.^[15] It is Puth's highest-rated album on the site.

Charlie debuted at number 10 on the US Billboard 200 chart with 26,500 album equivalent units, 9,500 of which came from pure sales. It earned Puth his third top-ten album in the United States.^[20] The album debuted at number 9 on the UK Albums Chart, earning Puth his third top-ten album in the country.^[21]

All tracks are produced by Charlie Puth.

Musicians

• Charlie Puth – vocals
• Jan Ozveren – guitar
• David Bukovinszky – cello (track 1)
• Mattias Bylund – string arrangement, string synthesizer (1, 8)
• Mattias Johansson – violin (1, 8)
• Conny Lindgren – violin (1)
• Travis Barker – drums (11)
• Sufiyan Raza (India) - drums (2)
• Jung Kook – vocals (track 6)

Technical

• Charlie Puth – production, mixing
• Colin Leonard – mastering (1, 3)
• Emerson Mancini – mastering (2, 4–12)
• Manny Marroquin – mixing
• Chris Galland – mix engineering (1, 5, 6)
• Benjamin Sedano – engineering
• Pdogg – engineering (6)
• Mattias Bylund – recording (1)
• Jeremie Inhaber – mixing assistance (1, 6)
• Scott Desmarais – mixing assistance (1, 6)
• Robin Florent – mixing assistance (1, 6)
• Trey Station – mixing assistance (2–4, 7–12)
• Anthony Vilchis – mixing assistance (2–4, 7–12)
• Zach Pereyra – mixing assistance (2–4, 7–12)