

He looks back at her and she smiles, but her boyfriend then sits down next to her, which Puth sees, and then sinks down into his chair. He nudges his friend (played by Stephen Puth, his younger brother) as he sees the girl sit down behind him, still wearing her headphones.

It then cuts to clips of him walking to and sitting down in class. 2 in C-sharp minor" on a grand piano in a college music classroom, before he is interrupted by a girl (played by Ellie Hahn) who comes into the room to watch, before she puts on headphones, and the actual song begins. It begins with Puth playing Rachmaninoff's "Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. Music video ĭirected by Mark Staubach, the music video for "One Call Away" was released on September 14, 2015, by his own YouTube channel. It reached its peak, number 3, the following week. In New Zealand, the song debuted at number 39, in the week ending Octothe next week, it jumped from 39 to 9, becoming his third hit top ten in New Zealand. As of July 2017, the song has sold 1,575,000 copies domestically. The song was certified double Platinum by the RIAA on July 28, 2016. In the UK, the song debuted at number 73, in the week ending December 3, 2015.

In the United States, "One Call Away" debuted at number 89, in the week ending December 19, 2015. Well, this is your musical meme for not seeing a person that you love so dearly for a really, really long time. I feel like people use them more as memes now. That’s the e-cards that people used to send to you over email. Charlie told iHeart: ‘One Call Away’ is about anybody who is in love with somebody, and doesn’t get to see that person every single day. Puth stated that he "absolutely" needed to sing the song, despite having not written the chorus, and that he wrote the song's bridge in addition to "a couple of lines". Puth was paired with a team and they failed to come up with a song in a week, disappointing the label, until DJ Frank E, who had previously worked with Puth on " See You Again", introduced him to "One Call Away" as a song idea. According to Puth, the song came about during a songwriting camp that his record label set up.
