Charlotte Sands

Charlotte Sands fuses the songwriting sensibilities that shaped her early years, among them Sheryl Crow and Grace Potter, with the emo-pop sensibilities that later guided her work. Viral traction arrived in 2020 through “Dress,” the track inspired by Harry Styles’ widely discussed cover shoot in which he wore a dress. That song appeared on her first EP, Special, issued in 2021. The following year brought her initial Top Ten placement on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart via “Loved You a Little,” a joint effort with Taking Back Sunday and the Maine.

Born in Massachusetts, Charlotte Sands departed Hopkinton at eighteen and headed for Nashville, Tennessee.After responding with a roommate located through a classified notice, she intended to remain in Music City for twelve months before enrolling at the Berklee College of Music. Boston never materialized; instead she devoted herself to independent writing and recording. Late-2010s singles such as “Phantom Pain” and the self-aware “Life of the Party” marked those initial efforts.

Her audience surged in late 2020 with the release of “Dress,” an atypical, synth-bass-driven number that saluted pop star Harry Styles’ dress-clad Vogue magazine session. The single later reached the Top 40 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart. Early 2021 saw “Dress” and earlier material gathered on the debut EP Special. A follow-up EP, Love and Other Lies, arrived in early 2022, the same period in which Sands supported tours by My Chemical Romance, Yungblud, and the Maine. That May she entered the Alternative Airplay chart’s Top Ten for the first time as a featured vocalist on the Maine’s “Loved You a Little,” joined by longtime influence Taking Back Sunday.