Charlie is the third studio album by American singer Charlie Puth, released on October 7, 2022, by Atlantic Records. It is Puth's first album in four years, after Voicenotes (2018),with Puth calling it is his most personal album to date.Charlie was preceded by seven singles: "Light Switch", "That's Hilarious", "Left and Right" with Jungkook of BTS, "Smells Like Me", "I Don't Think That I Like Her", "Charlie Be Quiet!" and "Loser".lBetween 2019 and 2021, Puth released and was featured on a handfu  

of singles. 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 his progress of the original version of the album in 2020 due to poor performances and reviews of the singles he released, 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.Puth stated that he almost named the album "Conversation with Myself" due to forced being alone at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic.