Charlie Puth has created the "biggest part" of his new album on TikTok.

The 30-year-old singer and songwriter, who confirmed that his next album after "Voicenotes" in 2018 is now complete, described how he used the video sharing platform to create new songs.

I will name the album "Charlie". Ready. I have created most of it on TikTok. My goal for this album is for everyone to know the title of each song before it is released. "I like the fact that 'Light Switch' has been announced for months and people are doing bootlegs," she told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1.

"Some producers have taken it, kept the acapella and made their own versions of 'Light Switch,'" he continued.

"I love it. I think music needs to change and move in many different directions. "That was exactly the goal for this album, and I'm really excited that people will hear it."

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Charlie Puth revealed that he put in the drawer all the songs he had originally written for the album, as he did not like any of the songs he created in 2019, before turning to TikTok in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"I really did not like any of the songs I released in 2019 and I did not want to make an album with them. It was not very authentic. "I felt like I was pretending to be a cool guy," he admitted.

"So I put it aside, and then in 2020, of course, it happened. "It was kind of a restart year, but I was happy for this restart year, because I really had to develop this thing with TikTok, and everyone was making fun of me for focusing so much on TikTok," he added.

Charlie Puth added that TikTok is a "safe place" where he can reach out to his fans and connect with them.

"It's a safe place and what I first fell in love with is that people are quirky and vulnerable. "Even recently, as I was browsing the app late at night, I saw a child crying because he did not attend the Juilliard School (a private educational institution for performing arts in New York)," he said.

"I'm thinking, I did not enter the Juilliard either. I wonder if I should tell him that sometimes things turn out as they should, as it did for me. And I did. "I think he felt better," he described.

"It was a general statement to almost everyone that sometimes rejection can be a beautiful thing, leading you down a path you did not even know existed," said Charlie Puth.