18 Months
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.
18 Months
26 October 2012
2011–2012
- Fly Eye, London[a]
- Westlake (Studio B), West Hollywood, California[b]
- White Villa, Ede, Netherlands[c]
- The Clubhouse[d]
- Cage at Belly of the Beast, London[e]
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- Dillon Francis
- Calvin Harris
- Mark Knight
- James F. Reynolds
- Nicky Romero
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.
Commercial performance[edit]
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]