Charlotte Cardin
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Biography
Charlotte Cardin (born November 9, 1994) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has been nominated for 14 Juno Awards. In 2022, she received four awards for Artist of the Year, Single of the Year for her song "Meaningless", Pop Album of the Year and Album of the Year for her 2021 debut album Phoenix. Her second album, 99 Nights, was released in 2023.
Life and career
Cardin grew up in the Town of Mount Royal on the island of Montreal. Cardin began her career as a model at the age of 15, where she appeared in numerous advertising campaigns such as Barilà. She was a Top 4 finalist in the first season of the TVA singing competition La Voix in 2013, later the same year she was featured on Garou's album Au milieu de ma vie as a duet vocalist on the single "Du vent, des mots". On March 1, 2014, she appeared on the sister series The Voice: la plus belle voix in France to perform the song with Garou, a judge on that edition.
She released her solo debut EP, Big Boy, in 2016 on Cult Nation Records. The EP featured songs in both English and French, and included rapper Nate Husser as a featured artist on "Like It Doesn't Hurt". She was a shortlisted SOCAN Songwriting Prize finalist in the French division for her song "Les échardes", and the title track "Big Boy" was playlisted on CBC Radio 2 and charted on the Radio 2 Top 20. She made an appearance on the talk show Tout le monde en parle to discuss her mini-album in November 2016.
For the 2017 SOCAN Songwriting Prize, she was a nominee in the English category for "Big Boy" and in the French category for "Faufile", becoming the first artist in the history of the award to be nominated in both categories in the same year. In 2017, she released her second EP, Main Girl.
She received two Juno Award nominations at the Juno Awards of 2018, for Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year for "Main Girl", "Paradise Motion" and "The Kids". In 2018, she received another SOCAN Songwriting Prize nomination for "Main Girl".
In 2019, Cardin and producer CRi collaborated on a cover of Daniel Bélanger's "Fous n'importe où", and Cardin appeared on Loud's album Tout ça pour ça as a duet vocalist on the track "Sometimes, All the Time". In 2020 she released the singles "Passive Aggressive" and "Daddy"; both tracks were recorded for her full-length debut album Phoenix, which was released on April 23, 2021. Phoenix is co-written with Cardin's longtime manager Jason Brando of Cult Nation.
In 2021, Her debut album Phoenix won the Felix Award for Anglophone Album of the Year at the 43rd Félix Awards. Cardin also won the awards for Anglophone Concert of the Year and Most Successful Artist Outside Quebec. Cardin was the most-nominated artist at the Juno Awards of 2022, receiving nods for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for Phoenix, Pop Album of the Year for Phoenix, Single of the Year and Video of the Year for "Meaningless", and the Fan Choice Award.
In April 2023, she released "Confetti", the first single from her second album 99 Nights. In June she announced that the album would be released on August 25, 2023.
After the release of the album, she created an EP, Une semaine à Paris, containing four songs: "Real Love", made with artist Laylow, the French version of "Confetti" which had already been released with Confetti and the piano version of the song, "Feel Good", and "Un peu trop". She then released a new EP, A Week in Nashville, containing three songs: "Lonely with Our Love", "I Came Here to Leave You" and "Did Life Work Out for You?".
99 Nights won the Juno Awards for Album of the Year and Pop Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2024, and was shortlisted for the 2024 Polaris Music Prize.
Band members
- Benjamin Courcy – drums
- Mathieu Sénéchal – bass guitar, musical director and co-writer of "Daddy"
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | BEL(WA) | FRA | SWI | ||
| Phoenix |
| 1 | 23 | 26 | 30 |
| 99 Nights |
| 3 | 59 | 38 | — |
Extended plays
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | FRA | ||
| Big Boy |
| 12 | — |
| Main Girl |
| 12 | 36 |
| Une semaine à Paris |
| — | — |
| A Week in Nashville |
| — | — |
Charted singles
As lead artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | CAN AC | CAN CHR | CAN HAC | CAN Rock | BEL(WA) | USAdult | |||
| "Main Girl" | 2017 | 98 | 19 | — | 34 | — | — | — | Main Girl |
| "Passive Aggressive" | 2020 | 47 | — | 49 | 29 | — | — | — | Phoenix |
| "Daddy" | 2021 | 64 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Meaningless" | 30 | 33 | 39 | 45 | — | — | — | ||
| "Confetti" | 2023 | 10 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 30 | — | 20 | 99 Nights |
| "99 Nights" | 74 | 16 | 14 | 10 | — | — | — | ||
| "Jim Carrey" | 88 | 29 | — | — | 34 | — | — | ||
| "Feel Good" | — | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | Une semaine à Paris | |
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEL(WA) | FRA | |||
| "Du vent, des mots" (Garou featuring Charlotte Cardin) | 2014 | — | 131 | Au milieu de ma vie |
Other charted songs
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | CAN AC | FRA | |||
| "Les Echardes" | 2016 | — | 45 | — | Big Boy |
| "California" | 2018 | — | 46 | — | Non-album singles |
| "Doubleshifts" | 2019 | — | 46 | — | |
| "Fous N'Importe Où" | — | 38 | — | ||
| "Phoenix" | 2021 | 68 | — | — | Phoenix |
| "Anyone Who Loves Me" | 33 | — | — | ||
| "Good Girl" | 94 | — | — | ||
| "Sad Girl" | 60 | — | — | ||
| "Memento Interlude" (Dinos featuring Charlotte Cardin) | — | — | 155 | Stamina, Memento | |
| "Puppy" | 2023 | 77 | — | — | 99 Nights |
| "Next to You" | 81 | — | — | ||
Awards and nominations
| Organization | Year | Work | Award | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Félix Award | 2017 | "Les échardes" | Song of the Year | Nominated | |
| 2018 | "Faufile" | Nominated | |||
| 2021 | Phoenix | Anglophone Album of the Year | Won | ||
| The Phoenix Experience | Anglophone Concert of the Year | Won | |||
| Herself | Most Successful Artist Outside Quebec | Won | |||
| Juno Awards | 2018 | Herself | Songwriter of the Year | Nominated | |
| Herself | Breakthrough Artist of the Year | Nominated | |||
| 2022 | Herself | Fan Choice | Nominated | ||
| "Meaningless" | Single of the Year | Won | |||
| Video of the Year | Nominated | ||||
| Phoenix | Album of the Year | Won | |||
| Pop Album of the Year | Won | ||||
| Herself | Artist of the Year | Won | |||
| 2024 | Herself | Fan Choice | Nominated | ||
| "Confetti" | Single of the Year | Nominated | |||
| 99 Nights | Pop Album of the Year | Won | |||
| Album of the Year | Won | ||||
| Herself | Artist of the Year | Nominated | |||
| Herself | Songwriter of the Year | Nominated | |||
| MTV Europe Music Awards | 2023 | Herself | Best Canadian Act | Nominated | |
| SOCAN Songwriting Prize | 2016 | "Les Échardes" | – | Nominated | |
| 2017 | "Big Boy" | – | Nominated | ||
| "Faufile" | – | Nominated | |||
| 2018 | "Main Girl" | – | Nominated |
