''I Created Disco'' is the debut studio album by Scottish musician Calvin Harris. It was released on 15 June 2007 by Columbia Records. It was preceded by the singles "

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" and " The Girls", which reached numbers 10 and three on the

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, respectively. The album debuted at number eight on the

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with first-week sales of 16,121 copies. On 23 May 2008, it was certified gold by the

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(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

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, a

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, 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, "

" and " The Girls". Harris and his band supported both Faithless and

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on their live arena tours in the second quarter of 2007. The album cover was also used to promote the fourth generation

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in yellow.

Critical reception

''I Created Disco'' received mixed reviews from music critics. At

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, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an

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score of 59, based on 17 reviews.

Track listing

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

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

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