18 Months

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18 Months
Calvin Harris - 18 Months.png
Studio album by
Calvin Harris
Released26 October 2012 (2012-10-26)
Recorded2010–2012
Studio
Genre EDM [1]
Length49:47
Label
Producer
Calvin Harris chronology
Ready for the Weekend
(2009)		18 Months
(2012)		 Motion
(2014)
Singles from 18 Months
  1. "Bounce"
    Released: 10 June 2011
  2. "Feel So Close"
    Released: 19 August 2011
  3. "Let's Go"
    Released: 30 March 2012
  4. "We'll Be Coming Back"
    Released: 27 July 2012
  5. "Sweet Nothing"
    Released: 12 October 2012
  6. "Drinking from the Bottle"
    Released: 27 January 2013
  7. "I Need Your Love"
    Released: 12 April 2013
  8. "Thinking About You"
    Released: 2 August 2013

18 Months is the third studio album by Scottish DJ and musician Calvin Harris. It was released on 26 October 2012 by Deconstruction, Fly Eye and Columbia Records. It marked Harris's first album where he does not regularly provide vocals on each song, instead producing the music and having guest singers sing for him, as Harris stated in late 2010 he did not intend to sing on his songs anymore. The album also shows a shift from Harris' usual nu disco-style songs, focusing more on an electro house style.

Contents

18 Months debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, earning Harris his second consecutive number-one album on the chart. It had sold over 923,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of July 2017. The album includes the singles "Bounce", "Feel So Close", "Let's Go", "We'll Be Coming Back", "Sweet Nothing", "Drinking from the Bottle", "I Need Your Love" and "Thinking About You", all of which, along with "We Found Love" featuring Rihanna, reached the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, making 18 Months the first album in history to spawn nine top-10 singles. The songs "Let's Go" and "Sweet Nothing" were nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 55th and 56th Grammy Awards, respectively.

Singles

"Bounce" was released as the album's lead single on 10 June 2011, featuring American R&B singer Kelis. [2] The song peaked at number two in the United Kingdom, [3] number six in Ireland [4] and number seven in Australia. [5]

The second single "Feel So Close" was released on 19 August 2011, [6] reaching number two in the United Kingdom and Ireland, [3] [4] and number seven in Australia. [5] The song also became Harris's first solo single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, reaching number 12. [7]

"Let's Go" was released as the album's third single on 30 March 2012, and it features American R&B singer Ne-Yo. [8] It peaked at number two in the United Kingdom, [3] number six in Ireland [4] and number 17 in Australia and the US. [5] [7] "Let's Go" received a nomination for Best Dance Recording at the 55th Grammy Awards in 2013. [9] The track was used in Pepsi Max's Crowd Surfing television advert. [10]

"We'll Be Coming Back", featuring English singer and rapper Example, was released on 27 July 2012 as the fourth single from the album. [11] It peaked at number two in the United Kingdom and number eight in Australia, [3] [5] while becoming both Harris's and Example's first solo single to reach number one in Ireland. [4] [12]

"Sweet Nothing" was released as the album's fifth single on 12 October 2012, featuring Florence Welch of English indie rock band Florence and the Machine. [13] The song topped the charts in the UK and Ireland, [4] becoming Harris and Welch's second collaborative number-one single, [14] as well as the first UK chart-topper from 18 Months. [3] It also debuted and peaked at number two in both Australia and New Zealand. [15] [16] In the US, the single peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. [7] "Sweet Nothing" was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 56th Grammy Awards in 2014. [17]

"Drinking from the Bottle" was released as the album's sixth official single on 27 January 2013, featuring English rapper Tinie Tempah. The song reached number five in the UK and number nine in Ireland. [3] [4]

"I Need Your Love", which features English singer Ellie Goulding, was released on 12 April 2013 as the seventh single from the album. [18] The track reached number four in the UK and number six in Ireland, [3] [4] while charting inside the top five in countries such as Australia, Austria, Finland and Sweden. [19] When "I Need Your Love" reached the UK top five in April 2013, Harris made chart history by becoming the first artist to attain eight top-10 singles from one studio album (including "We Found Love"), overtaking the record previously set by Michael Jackson. [20] [21]

"Thinking About You", featuring Ayah Marar, was released on 2 August 2013 as the album's eighth and final single. [22] It reached number eight in the UK, [3] number 11 in Ireland, [4] number 28 in Australia and number 40 in New Zealand. [23]

Promotional singles

"Awooga" was released on 21 March 2011 through Harris's label Fly Eye Records. [24] The accompanying music video consists of footage from his then-recent concerts in Australia. [25]

Harris's collaboration with Nicky Romero, "Iron", was released on Beatport on 10 September 2012 by Protocol Recordings. [26]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 57/100 [27]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [28]
The A.V. Club C+ [29]
Entertainment Weekly C+ [30]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [31]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [32]
Metro 4/5 [33]
NME 6/10 [34]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [35]
PopMatters 5/10 [36]

18 Months received generally mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 57, based on 17 reviews. [27] Fraser McAlpine of BBC Music hailed the album as a "collection almost exclusively in the key of triumph", as well as "a portfolio of win for Calvin, an annual report where the graph is almost all peaks and the troughs are so far down they're practically invisible." [37] Arwa Haider of Metro commented that "18 Months could be a capsule collection of smash singles, yet it also works brilliantly as an album. That's partly because these are never faceless anthems; its singers [...] are well judged and rise to the songs, while the catchy hooks are lovingly arranged". [33] AllMusic's Tim Sendra wrote that the album "shows Harris to be a solid producer with an easily identifiable sound." [28] Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times noted that despite the variety of male collaborators, the album "only deepens the impression that Harris is best when linked with a lady; his skills in that area are several times more developed than they are anywhere else." [32] The Independent 's Andy Gill was unimpressed by Ellie Goulding's performance on "I Need Your Love", but complimented Welch on "Sweet Nothing", and cited Harris's collaboration with Nicky Romero on "Iron" as the album's "killer cut". [31]

Emily Mackay of NME opined that "[t]he best collaborations stand alone, but the rest demands small hours and sweat to animate it", stating the album "feels more like a deserved victory lap than a forward step or a new instalment, but apart from his sole vocal on 'Feel So Close', the victor seems oddly absent." [34] Killian Fox of The Observer remarked, "Nothing else on 18 Months matches up to the blockbusting collaborations with Kelis, Florence Welch and Rihanna", concluding that "Harris's production has become increasingly homogenised and, despite the array of vocalists, everything here risks sounding the same." [35] At Entertainment Weekly , Melissa Maerz complimented songs like "We Found Love" and "I Need Your Love", but found that the album does not offer "many surprises". [30] Despite referring to Harris as a "brilliant pop craftsman", The A.V. Club 's Chris DeVille felt that the album "suffers from EDM fatigue" and that "almost every track eventually congeals into the same automaton thud." [29] Evan Sawdey of PopMatters critiqued that "while 18 Months [...] is pretty much the hit-making monster that launched [Harris] in to the world spotlight, the truth of the matter is that it feels like a rather compromised vision of who he is an artist, sacrificing his quirkiness for a brooding new persona that starts to get stale over the course of a complete full-length." [36] The Guardian critic Rebecca Nicholson expressed that "Harris knows how to make the most of his guests, leading them through a series of euphoric bangers that seem destined for success. But for all the pop divas he has roped in, there's a veneer of cynical, laddy EDM, resulting in the kind of tracks Skrillex might come up with on an Ayia Napa booze cruise." [1]

Commercial performance

18 Months debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 52,356 copies, becoming Harris's second consecutive number-one album on the chart. [38] The album fell to number four the following week, selling 34,734 copies. [39] In its third week, it slipped to number nine with 24,689 units sold. [40] In mid-January 2013, the album returned to number one for one week before slipping to number two. [41] By July 2017, 18 Months had sold 923,861 copies in the United Kingdom. [42]

In the United States, 18 Months sold 17,000 copies to debut at number 19 on the Billboard 200 and at number one on the Dance/Electronic Albums chart, [43] becoming Harris's first album to enter the former chart. [44] As of March 2014, it had sold 173,000 copies in the US. [45] 18 Months had also sold over 25 million singles worldwide as of August 2013. [46]

Track listing

All tracks are produced by Calvin Harris, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Green Valley" Calvin Harris  1:49
2."Bounce" (featuring Kelis)Harris 3:42
3."Feel So Close"Harris 3:26
4."We Found Love" (Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris)Harris
3:35
5."We'll Be Coming Back" (featuring Example)
  • Harris
  • Example
 3:54
6."Mansion"Harris 2:07
7."Iron" (with Nicky Romero)
  • Harris
  • Romero
  • Harris
  • Romero
3:39
8."I Need Your Love" (featuring Ellie Goulding)
  • Harris
  • Goulding
 3:54
9."Drinking from the Bottle" (featuring Tinie Tempah)
  • Harris
  • Tinie Tempah
  • James F. Reynolds
  • Mark Knight
  • Harris
  • Reynolds
  • Knight
4:00
10."Sweet Nothing" (featuring Florence Welch)
 3:32
11."School"Harris 1:47
12."Here 2 China" (with Dillon Francis featuring Dizzee Rascal)
  • Harris
  • Dizzee Rascal
  • Francis
  • Harris
  • Francis
2:32
13."Let's Go" (featuring Ne-Yo)
  • Harris
  • Ne-Yo
 3:53
14."Awooga"Harris 3:51
15."Thinking About You" (featuring Ayah Marar)
  • Harris
  • Marar
 4:07
Deluxe edition "18 Months (Continuous Mix)" bonus disc [47]
No.TitleLength
1."Bounce" (featuring Kelis)3:42
2."Bounce" (R3hab Remix) (featuring Kelis)5:24
3."Feel So Close"3:26
4."We Found Love" (Extended Mix) (featuring Rihanna)5:45
5."We'll Be Coming Back" (Original Extended Mix) (featuring Example)6:33
6."We'll Be Coming Back" (Michael Woods Remix) (featuring Example)5:20
7."Iron" (with Nicky Romero)3:39
8."I Need Your Love" (featuring Ellie Goulding)3:54
9."Drinking from the Bottle" (featuring Tinie Tempah)4:00
10."Sweet Nothing" (Extended Mix) (featuring Florence Welch)5:52
11."Let's Go" (Extended Mix) (featuring Ne-Yo)6:00
12."Awooga" (Extended Mix)7:14
13."Thinking About You" (featuring Ayah Marar)4:07
iTunes Store deluxe edition bonus tracks [48]
No.TitleLength
16."Bounce" (R3hab Remix) (featuring Kelis)5:24
17."We Found Love" (Extended Mix) (featuring Rihanna)5:45
18."We'll Be Coming Back" (Original Extended Mix) (featuring Example)6:33
19."We'll Be Coming Back" (Michael Woods Remix) (featuring Example)5:20
20."Sweet Nothing" (Extended Mix) (featuring Florence Welch)5:52
21."Let's Go" (Extended Mix) (featuring Ne-Yo)6:00
22."Awooga" (Extended Mix)7:14
23."18 Months" (Continuous Mix)52:54
24."Bounce (Director's Cut)" (music video) (featuring Kelis)4:29
25."Feel So Close (Director's Cut)" (music video)4:06
26."Let's Go (Director's Cut)" (music video) (featuring Ne-Yo)7:26
27."We'll Be Coming Back (Director's Cut)" (music video) (featuring Example)4:07
28."Sweet Nothing (Director's Cut)" (music video) (featuring Florence Welch)4:28
Japanese edition bonus tracks [49]
No.TitleLength
16."Bounce" (R3hab Remix) (featuring Kelis)5:24
17."Feel So Close" (Benny Benassi Remix)5:20
18."We'll Be Coming Back" (Michael Woods Remix) (featuring Example)5:20
19."Sweet Nothing" (Tiësto Remix) (featuring Florence Welch)5:08

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of 18 Months. [50]

Musicians

Technical

  • Calvin Harris – production (all tracks); mixing (track 4)
  • Simon Davey – mastering (tracks 1, 5–7, 10–12, 14)
  • Mike Marsh – mastering (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 13)
  • Kuk Harrell – vocal production, vocal recording (track 4)
  • Marcos Tovar – vocal recording (track 4)
  • Phil Tan – mixing (track 4)
  • Scott McCormick – engineering (track 5)
  • Nicky Romero – production (track 7)
  • Karen Thompson – mastering (track 8)
  • James F. Reynolds – production (track 9)
  • Mark Knight – production (track 9)
  • Kid Harpoon – vocal recording (track 10)
  • Dillon Francis – production (track 12)

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [93] 2× Platinum140,000‡
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [94] 2× Platinum80,000‡
Canada (Music Canada) [95] 2× Platinum160,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [96] Gold10,000‡
Ireland (IRMA) [97] Gold7,500^
Mexico (AMPROFON) [98] Platinum60,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ) [99] Gold7,500^
Poland (ZPAV) [100] Platinum20,000*
Sweden (GLF) [101] Platinum40,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [102] 4× Platinum923,861 [42]
United States (RIAA) [103] Platinum1,000,000‡

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormatEditionLabelRef.
Germany26 October 2012
  • Standard
  • deluxe
 Sony [104]
Netherlands [105] [106]
Ireland [107] [108]
United Kingdom29 October 2012 [109] [110]
France Jive Epic [111] [112]
United States30 October 2012Standard
 [113] [114]
Italy
  • Standard
  • deluxe
Sony [115] [116]
Japan31 October 2012 [49] [117]
Australia2 November 2012 [118] [119]
LP Standard [120]
Germany [104]
United Kingdom5 November 2012
  • Deconstruction
  • Fly Eye
  • Columbia
 [121]

Notes

  1. ↑ Tracks 1–8 and 10–15
  2. ↑ Track 4
  3. ↑ Track 7
  4. ↑ Vocals on track 10
  5. ↑ Vocals on track 12

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