Charlie Harding

Charlie Harding is a music journalist and co-host of the podcast Switched On Pop, about the making and meaning of popular music. The show is a co-production with New York Magazine’s Vulture‍ on ‍Netflix. The podcast has received several awards, including the 2025 and 2023 Signal Award, 2020 Webby People's Voice Award, and 2019 People's Choice Podcast Award.

He is the co-author of Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works and Why it Matters (Oxford University Press), which won the 2021 PROSE Award in Music & the Performing Arts.

He is also an associate professor of music at Berklee College of Music and adjunct professor of music at NYU Steinhardt MPAP.