After revealing his highly anticipated Asian tour on social media, worldwide pop superstar and award-winning songwriter Charlie Puth confirms his return to Manila for The Voicenotes Tour at the Mall of Asia Arena on Nov. 6.
Concert promoters Live Nation and MMI Live also announce that tickets to the concert are available at all SM tickets outlets starting today at 10:00 a.m.
The last time Charlie Puth was in the Philippines was in August 2016 when he wowed thousands of his Filipino fans who attended his concert. He treated them with four of his multi-platinum hits, “One Call Away,” “Marvin Gaye,” and “We Don’t Talk Anymore” from his platinum-selling, Top 10 debut album, Nine Track Mind, as well as his breakout smash “See You Again.”
“See You Again,” was the best-selling song of 2015 worldwide spending 12 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, earned him three Grammy nominations (including Song of the Year), a Golden Globe nomination, and 9x-platinum certification in the U.S.
The New Jersey-born singer, songwriter, musician, and producer was also eager to prove himself artistically when it came time to make his second album, Voicenotes, named after the trusty iPhone app he uses to collect his musical ideas. Puth co-wrote every song and recorded and produced the album entirely himself (barring one song he co-produced with Max Martin) mainly at his home studio in Los Angeles.
On the lyrical front, Voicenotes is an album that is largely about Puth’s struggle to find a normal relationship when his own life has hardly been normal since finding multiplatinum success, and the anxiety that pursuit has induced.
“I wanted it to be a story of my travels from the East Coast to the West Coast and how my growing fame has affected my mind in good and bad ways,” he says.
The first three singles — “Attention,” “How Long,” and “Done For Me” featuring Kehlani — cover that territory.
“Whenever I met anybody, they often knew more about me than I knew about myself,” he says. “I’d never dealt with anything like that before.”
For all of his success, Puth still sees himself as the kid from Rumson who played organ in church and made mixtapes for the girls at school.
“I still have the same deep infatuation with chord changes, girls, and food,” he says. “Nothing’s really changed. I still find myself to be a pretty humble guy. Every room I walk into I think I’m the worst songwriter and I have to prove myself. But it’s because of that that I get better.”
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