On a roll, Charlie Puth performs at Jingle Ball in Rosemont Wednesday
NEW YORK - Singer-songwriter Charlie Puth just had his best week ever.
The 24-year-old earned three Grammy nominations last Monday for his tribute song to Paul Walker, the No. 1 hit "See You Again." And now it's nominated for best original song at the Golden Globe Awards, announced Thursday.
Oh, and he just heard his new single, "One Call Away," on the radio for the first time.
"Oh my God, make this song louder. This is my song. This is literally the best moment of my life right now," an excited Puth said in an interview Thursday from inside a car in New York City. "Yeah, I'm like Santa Claus ... in Disneyland right now!"
The New Jersey native is performing Wednesday, Dec. 16, at Allstate Arena in Rosemont as part of the Jingle Ball tour and says he eventually will celebrate his nominations by relaxing.
But for now, life just keeps getting better for Puth, who also wrote "See You Again" about his friend who passed away around the same time as Walker. The song, which features rapper Wiz Khalifa and appears on the "Furious 7" soundtrack, spent 12 weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
His Golden Globes competition includes Sam Smith's "Writing's on the Wall," Brian Wilson's "One Kind of Love," David Lang's "Simple Song #3" as well as another pop smash, Ellie Goulding's "Love Me Like You Do" from the "Fifty Shades of Grey" soundtrack.
"I'm in really good company ... I never thought that I would be in company like that," Puth said.
Puth's Grammy nods include song of the year, best song written for visual media and pop duo/group performance for "See You Again."
"I wanted to write the song for all of Paul's fans that were so upset when he passed away. ... I wanted everybody to not feel like they left a funeral when they watched the end of the movie," he said. "I wanted them to feel uplifted, sad, but like there's hope. He's on to better things now. He's looking down. He broke a new artist's career and has done so much for so many people."
Puth will release his debut album, "Nine Track Mind," on Jan. 29 - a couple of weeks after the Golden Globes. It features songs with Selena Gomez and Meghan Trainor, who appears on the hit, "Marvin Gaye."
The Golden Globes Awards will be held on Jan. 10, and the Grammy Awards are on Feb. 15.