Английская Википедия:I Created Disco

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I Created Disco is the debut studio album by Scottish musician Calvin Harris, released on 15 June 2007 by Columbia Records. It was preceded by the singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls", which reached numbers 10 and three on the UK Singles Chart, respectively. The album debuted at number eight on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 16,121 copies. On 23 May 2008, it was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). I Created Disco had sold 223,845 copies in the United Kingdom by November 2014.

Writing and recording

Writing and recording for I Created Disco started in 2006 when Harris moved back to his hometown of Dumfries, Scotland, after living in London for two years. All recording and producing for the album took place on an Amiga computer with OctaMED, a music tracker, in Harris' home studio, called Calvinharrisbeats Studio. All 14 tracks on the album were written, produced and performed solely by Harris.

Promotion

Preceding the release of the album, Columbia released two singles, "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls". Harris and his band supported both Faithless and Groove Armada on their live arena tours in the second quarter of 2007. The album cover was also used to promote the fourth generation iPod Nano in yellow.

Critical reception

Шаблон:Album ratings I Created Disco received 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 59, based on 17 reviews.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of I Created Disco.

• Calvin Harris – vocals, arrangement, instruments, production
• Guy Davie – mastering
• Joanne Morris – design

Charts

Weekly charts

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Chart (2007–2008)	Peak position
Australian Dance Albums (ARIA)	11
European Albums (Billboard)	32

Year-end charts

Chart (2007)	Position
UK Albums (OCC)	199
Chart (2009)	Position
UK Albums (OCC)	159

Certifications

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Release history

Region	Date	Label	Шаблон:Abbr
Ireland	15 June 2007	Шаблон:Hlist
United Kingdom	18 June 2007
Japan	27 June 2007	Sony
Australia	6 July 2007	Red Label
United States	4 September 2007	Almost Gold
Benelux	13 January 2008	PIAS
France	4 February 2008	Шаблон:Hlist
Germany	18 April 2008	Ministry of Sound