Must Haves. Music Edition. Charli XCX

BACKGROUND HISTORY

Active2000s - 2020s

BornAugust 2, 1992 in London, England

Genre

Pop/Rock.

Styles

Left-Field Pop

Pop

HITS

Fancy, Hot In It, Blame It On Your Love, Doing It, White Mercedes, Good Ones, 1999, Boom Clap, Boys, London Queen

ALBUMS

True Romance (2013)

Sucker (2014)

Number 1 Angel (2017)

Pop 2 (2017)

Charli (2019)

How Im Feeling Now (2020) Crash (2022)

CULTURAL IMPACT

Charli XCX is equally at ease working with cutting-edge producers like A.G. Cook and touring with Taylor Swift, straddling the most experimental and mainstream sides of pop. She contributed to some of the biggest pop singles of the 2010s as a songwriter and collaborator, including Icona Pop's 2012 smash "I Love It" and Iggy Azalea's 2014 chart-topping hit "Fancy." Her work as an artist ranged from the edgy sounds of her 2013 debut album, True Romance, to the more straightforward territory of 2014's follow-up Sucker, which featured the U.S. Top Ten single "Boom Clap."

She only became more prolific and eclectic as the decade progressed. Along with establishing her own label, Vroom Vroom, she released EPs and mixtapes, such as 2017's Pop 2, which allowed her to combine the different sides of her music in a fittingly freewheeling way – a direction she continued on 2020's acclaimed how i'm feeling now and 2022's Crash, which revisited her style's '90s and 2000s pop foundations.