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Bringin’ It Backwards: Interview with Carlie Hanson

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In just under a year, 18-year old Carlie Hanson has made her way from a small town in Wisconsin working at a McDonald’s drive-thru to a full-fledged artist and songwriter living in LA self-releasing three vibrant breakout tracks which have a collective 30M streams across Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube, all without a record label.  Her song โ€œOnly Oneโ€ is prominently featured on Apple Musicโ€™s A-List Pop Playlist, Spotifyโ€™s biggest playlist Todayโ€™s Top Hits as well as an Apple Music Playlist curated by Taylor Swift. The song is averaging approximately 400,000 streams per day.

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Hansonโ€™s debut music video for โ€œOnly One,โ€ which was directed by directing duo Similar But Different (Dani Girdwood and Charlotte Fassler) with an all-female crew. 

Hanson made her live debut earlier this year, recently wrapped a string of summer festival dates and is opening for Jeremy Zucker and Troye Sivan on their respective tours this fall. (Source: Warner Bros. Records)

Weโ€™re Bringinโ€™ it Backwards with Carlie Hanson.

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