Here Are Charli XCX’s Billboard Covers & Photos Over the Past Decade
Charli XCX is Billboard’s latest cover star — but she’s no stranger to gracing our magazine.
The “360” star has been on the cover two other times, in 2014 and 2017. She’s also been part of several photoshoots related to Billboard’s annual Women in Music event. In 2014, she accepted the Hitmaker Award and, in 2023, she took home the Powerhouse Award.
Her most recent cover story comes a little more than a month after the “Von Dutch” singer dropped her critically acclaimed album Brat, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 — her highest peak on the chart to date — as well as inspired a wave of new internet trends.
“I didn’t want any metaphors — like, at all,” Charli tells Billboard of the project. “I wanted this record to feel like I was having a conversation with the listener in a true way. I could say that to you in the back of a cab on the way to a club. Like tonight? I want to dance with A. G.”
She added, “With Brat, it was really interesting to just do things for the fan base and make that feel exclusive — but then once you’re in the club, it’s actually very inclusive. Actually, everyone can join the club. It’s just that everybody joins at slightly different times in slightly different ways — whether that be on my private Instagram posts, or the 400-person Boiler Room, or a random cinema screening of a new music video in L.A., or a text message from me.”
To celebrate her newest cover, see below for Charli XCX’s Billboard photos over the years, from 2014 to present.
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Billboard Cover July 20, 2024
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Cover Shoot 2014
Image Credit: Olivia Malone Charli xcx photographed on August 22, 2014 at Carondelet House in Los Angeles.
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Billboard Music Awards 2015
Image Credit: Austin Hargrave Charli xcx photographed backstage at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards on May 17, 2015 in Las Vegas.
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Cover Shoot 2017
Image Credit: David Needleman Charli xcx photographed on Aug. 6, 2017 at the Catalyst Ranch in Chicago.
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Women in Music Event 2016
Image Credit: Meredith Jenks Charli XCX photographed backstage at the 2016 Women in Music awards on Dec. 9, 2016 at Pier 36 in New York City.
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Cover Shoot 2024
Image Credit: Charlotte Hadden Charli xcx photographed July 4, 2024 at Loft Studios in London.
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Billboard Music Awards 2014
Image Credit: Austin Hargrave Charli XCX photographed backstage at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards on May 18, 2014 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
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Cover Shoot 2017
Image Credit: David Needleman Charli xcx photographed on Aug. 6, 2017 at the Catalyst Ranch in Chicago.
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Cover Shoot 2024
Image Credit: Charlotte Hadden Charli xcx photographed July 4, 2024 at Loft Studios in London.
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Governor’s Ball 2015
Image Credit: Eric Ryan Anderson Charli xcx photographed by Eric Ryan Anderson on June 5, 2015 at Randall’s Island in NYC.
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Billboard Cover October 11, 2024
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Women in Music Event 2016
Image Credit: Meredith Jenks Charli xcx photographed backstage at the 2016 Women in Music awards on Dec. 9, 2016 at Pier 36 in New York City.
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Cover Shoot 2017
Image Credit: David Needleman Halsey (top) and Charli XCX photographed on Aug. 6, 2017 at the Catalyst Ranch in Chicago.
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Cover Shoot 2014
Image Credit: Olivia Malone Charli xcx photographed on August 22, 2014 at Carondelet House in Los Angeles.
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Cover Shoot 2024
Image Credit: Charlotte Hadden Charli xcx photographed July 4, 2024 at Loft Studios in London. Saint Laurent top and skirt, 866 Royal Mint jewelry.
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Lollapalooza 2015
Image Credit: Lucy Hewett Charli xcx photographed at Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 1, 2015.
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Women in Music 2024
Image Credit: Joelle Grace Taylor Charli XCX photographed on November 27, 2023 in Los Angeles.
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Billboard Cover September 2-15, 2017
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Women in Music Event 2024
Image Credit: Sami Drasin Charli XCX photographed on March 6, 2024 at YouTube Theater at Hollywood Park in Los Angeles, CA.
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Governor’s Ball 2017
Image Credit: Tawni Bannister Charli xcx photographed on June 2, 2017 at Randall’s Island Park in New York.
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Cover Shoot 2024
Image Credit: Charlotte Hadden Charli xcx photographed July 4, 2024 at Loft Studios in London.
