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As Taylor Swift sang connected past year’s Tortured Poets Department: “We declared Charlie Puth should beryllium a bigger artist.” Maybe the popular singer/songwriter conscionable needs his adjacent epoch to get adjacent bigger than helium already is (the antheral has 4 Billboard Hot 100 apical 10 hits, including the 12-week No. 1 “See You Again” with Wiz Khalifa, aft all). And that adjacent epoch is connected the horizon, with the announcement of his 4th workplace medium Whatever’s Clever!, owed successful March, and the merchandise of the pb azygous “Changes” past week.
Over the past month, Puth has been investigating retired immoderate of his caller worldly during a 16-show residency crossed Blue Note New York (Sept. 25-28) and Blue Note Los Angeles (Oct. 16-19), bringing jazzy reimaginings of immoderate of his biggest hits to the legendary jazz nine stage. Billboard was wrong the last Los Angeles performance implicit the weekend, and connected the caller Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie is telling Keith each astir seeing Puth play astatine specified an intimate venue.
Katie was mostly struck by what a bully acceptable the venue was for Charlie and his catalog, arsenic “Professor Puth” (known for sharing his euphony education with the TikTok audience) led an incredibly talented set of instrumentalists and backup singers done a masterclass of unrecorded pop. And arsenic for the caller songs — we heard “Beat Yourself Up” and “Changes” from the upcoming medium connected Sunday nighttime — the assemblage was conscionable arsenic into the brand-new tunes arsenic they were into “Attention,” “We Don’t Talk Anymore,” “How Long” and, of course, “See You Again.” It seems that this caller Dad Rock vibe Puth is leaning into (appropriately, the “Changes” euphony video besides doubled arsenic a gestation announcement for him and his woman Brooke) is going to beryllium a cleanable match.
Listen to the afloat speech here:
And speaking of Taylor Swift… besides connected the show, we’ve got illustration quality astir however Swift continues to clasp down the No. 1 spots connected some the Billboard 200 albums and Billboard Hot 100 songs charts with The Life of a Showgirl and pb azygous “The Fate of Ophelia,” portion Olivia Dean makes gains connected the Billboard 200 with The Art of Loving.
The Billboard Pop Shop Podcast is your one-stop store for each things popular on Billboard‘s play charts. You tin ever number connected a lively treatment astir the latest popular news, amusive illustration stats and stories, caller music, and impermanent interviews with euphony stars and folks from the satellite of pop. Casual popular fans and illustration junkies tin hear Billboard‘s enforcement integer director, West Coast, Katie Atkinson and Billboard’s managing director, charts and information operations, Keith Caulfield each week connected the podcast, which tin beryllium streamed on Billboard.com or downloaded successful Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast provider. (Click present to perceive to the erstwhile variation of the show on Billboard.com.)
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