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ON OUR RADAR

1 CHARLIE PUTH

After a three-year break that trademark falsetto is back! Charlie Puth, he of the hits We Don’t Talk Anymore and Marvin Gaye, has made a return to the pop charts with his catchy new song Light Switch.

The first single off his forthcoming album, simply titled Charlie, has already racked up over 74 million streams on Spotify and 35 million views on YouTube.

It has the feel of a fun ‘80s style music video and was written about an ex who “stole” a year of his life, he says.

Describing how he felt during the making of the album, Charlie says only

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