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\n\tMy big struggle is deciding whether I care more about being the biggest artist I can be commercially or being critically sound,\u201d Charli\u00a0XCX<\/a> says. \u201cThen sometimes I land in this place of not caring about either of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFor most of her decade-plus career as both a songwriter for other pop stars (Gwen Stefani, Camila Cabello, Selena Gomez) and a beloved solo performer herself, Charli has managed to strike an enviable balance between the two pop poles she has just described. The 31-year-old British artist has made inescapable hits like her 2014 Iggy Azalea collaboration, \u201cFancy,\u201d which spent seven weeks at No.\u00a01 on the Billboard Hot\u00a0100<\/a>, and more sonically experimental pop \u2014 including her celebrated pairings with SOPHIE, with whom Charli pioneered hyperpop \u2014 while establishing herself as a tastemaker with a track record for working with cutting-edge artists like Yaeji, Rina Sawayama and Caroline Polachek before the industry fully catches on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n