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Release Date
15 April 2016
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Length
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"One Call Away" is a song by American singer-songwriter Charlie Puth. It was released on August 20, 2015, by Atlantic Records as the second single from his debut studio album, Nine Track Mind (2016). "One Call Away" is a gospel-infused pop-soul song. It reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Puth's third top 40 single in the US and his third highest-charting single as a lead artist to date, behind "We Don't Talk Anymore" and "Attention".
According to Puth, the song came about during a songwriting camp that his record label set up. Puth was paired with a team and they failed to come up with a song in a week, disappointing the label, until DJ Frank E, who had previously worked with Puth on "See You Again", introduced him to "One Call Away" as a song idea. Puth stated that he "absolutely" needed to sing the song, despite having not written the chorus, and that he wrote the song's bridge in addition to "a couple of lines". Charlie told iHeart: ‘One Call Away’ is about anybody who is in love with somebody, and doesn’t get to see that person every single day. That’s the e-cards that people used to send to you over email. I feel like people use them more as memes now. Well, this is your musical meme for not seeing a person that you love so dearly for a really, really long time.
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