Charlie Hugall
{{Short description|British music artist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2013}}
{{BLP sources|date=April 2013}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Charlie Hugall
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| origin = Brixton, London, England, United Kingdom
| genre = Rock, indie rock, punk rock, dance, pop
| occupation = Record producer, songwriter, mix engineer
| years_active = 2009–present
| associated_acts = Florence and the Machine, Ed Sheeran, Halsey, Crystal Fighters, Swim Deep, Lucy Rose, Alex Winston, Kaiser Chiefs
| website = [http://www.charliehugall.com/ charliehugall.com]
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Charlie Hugall (born 1984) is a British music producer, songwriter and mix engineer. He has produced and mixed records for Florence and the Machine, Ed Sheeran, Halsey, Swim Deep, Kaiser Chiefs, Lucy Rose, Crystal Fighters and others.
Career
Starting his career as a studio engineer at The Dairy Studios in Brixton, Charlie made use of downtime in the studio to invite artists he found to record. Through this period he came to prominence as a producer with Florence + the Machine's song "You've Got the Love".{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Charlie+Hugall|title=Charlie Hugall Discography|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=3 April 2013}} It spawned a second spin-off single featuring Dizzee Rascal "You Got the Dirtee Love".
Charlie also worked with Florence Welch to produce "My Boy Builds Coffins" from her debut album Lungs and to mix and produce the bonus disc on the second album, Ceremonials.
Soon after his work with Florence + the Machine, he began work mixing and adding additional production to Crystal Fighters' – Star of Love, Delilah's – From the Roots Up (which debuted at number #5),{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/20120805/7502/|title=Archive Charts|publisher=Official Charts|accessdate=3 April 2013}} in addition to production work for The 2:54, The Maccabees, Alex Winston and the Kaiser Chiefs.
In 2013, Hugall was awarded Breakthrough Engineer of the Year by the Music Producers Guild.{{cite web|title=Charlie Hugall wins Breakthrough Engineer of the Year |url=http://www.gothamproducers.com/charlie-hugall-wins-breakthrough-engineer-of-the-year-at-the-2013-mpg-awards/|publisher=Gotham Producers|accessdate=2013-04-03}} That year, he produced Swim Deep's critically acclaimed top 10 album Where the Heaven Are We before working on Dry The River's second album Alarms in the Heart in 2014 and writing and producing Halsey's song "Haunting" off her hit debut album Badlands in 2015.
In response to the Paris bombings, in Dec 2015 he produced the Florence & The Machine collaboration with The Maccabees honouring the victims of the attacks with a cover of the Eagles of Death Metal's "I Love You All the Time"
Songwriting and production credits
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |
| scope="col" style="width:160px;"| Title
! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Artist(s) ! scope="col" style="width:180px;"| Album ! scope="col" | Credits ! scope="col" | Written with ! scope="col" | Produced with |
|---|
| scope="row"| "My Boy Builds Coffins"
| rowspan="3"| 2009 | rowspan="3"| Florence + The Machine | rowspan="3"| Lungs | rowspan="4"| Producer | - | - |
| scope="row"| "You've Got the Love"
| - | - |
| scope="row"| "Are You Hurting the One You Love?" | - | - |
| scope="row"| "You Need Me, I Don't Need You"
| rowspan="2"| 2011 | rowspan="2"| Ed Sheeran | rowspan="2"| + | - |
| scope="row"| "Grade 8"
| Additional producer | - |
| scope="row"| "Honey"
| 2012 | rowspan="12"| Swim Deep | rowspan="12"| Where the Heaven Are We | rowspan="2"| Producer | - | - |
| scope="row"| "The Sea"
| rowspan="11"| 2013 | - | - |
| scope="row"| "She Changes the Weather"
| Co-writer/Producer | - |
| scope="row"| "King City"
| rowspan="12"| Producer | - | - |
| scope="row"| "Intro"
| - | - |
| scope="row"| "Francisco"
| - | - |
| scope="row"| "Colour Your Ways"
| - | - |
| scope="row"| "Make My Sun Shine"
| - | - |
| scope="row"| "Red Lips I Know"
| - | - |
| scope="row"| "Soul Trippin"
| - | - |
| scope="row"| "Stray"
| - | - |
| scope="row"| "Crush"
| - | - |
| scope="row"| "Maway"
| 2014 | - | Joe Wills |
| scope="row"| "Make Up Your Mind"
| rowspan="4"| 2015 | rowspan="2"| Florence + The Machine | rowspan="2"| How Big, How Blue, | - |
| scope="row"| "Pure Feeling"
| - | - |
| scope="row"| "Haunting"
| Halsey | Badlands | Co-writer/Producer | Ashley Frangipane, Robert Tortelli, Christopher Hugall | Heavy Mellow |
| scope="row"| "Hurt Me"
| rowspan="2"| Låpsley | rowspan="2"| Long Way Home | rowspan="2"| Vocal Producer | - |
| scope="row"| "Love is Blind"
| rowspan="5"| 2016 | - |
| scope="row"| "Swim"
| rowspan="9"| Producer | - |
| scope="row"| "Something in the Water"
| rowspan="8"| Tom Grennan | Lighting Matches | - | - |
| scope="row"| "Old Songs"
| Something in the Water EP | - | - |
| scope="row"| "Sweet Hallelujah"
| rowspan="2"| Lighting Matches | - | - |
| scope="row"| "Praying"
| rowspan="7"| 2017 | - | - |
| scope="row"| "Giving It All"
| rowspan="3"| Release the Brakes EP | - | - |
| scope="row"| "This Is the Age"
| - | - |
| scope="row"| "Patience"
| - | - |
| scope="row"| "Found What I've Been Looking For"
| Lighting Matches | - | - |
| scope="row"| "Watch Me Read You"
| rowspan="2"| Odette | rowspan="2"| To A Stranger | rowspan="2"| Co-writer | Georgia Sallybanks | - |
| scope="row"| "Collide"
| Georgia Sallybanks | - |
| scope="row"| "She"
| 2018 | Producer | - |
| scope="row"| "All My Friends"
| 2019 | Dermot Kennedy | Co-writer | - |
| scope="row"| "Love is Back"
| 2020 | Celeste | Producer | - | Josh Crocker |