I Created Disco

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.^[1] On 23 May 2008, it was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).^[2] I Created Disco had sold 223,845 copies in the United Kingdom by November 2014.^[3]

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 audio tracker OctaMED^[4] in Harris's 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", and 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

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	59/100^[5]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[6]
BBC Music	Favourable^[7]
Billboard	Favourable^[8]
Drowned in Sound	1/10^[9]
The Guardian	^[10]
NME	7/10^[11]
Pitchfork	3.7/10^[12]
PopMatters	4/10^[13]
Stylus Magazine	B^[14]
Yahoo! Music	^[15]

I Created Disco received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 59, based on 17 reviews.^[5]

Track listing

All tracks written by Calvin Harris.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Merrymaking at My Place"	4:09
2.	"Colours"	4:01
3.	"This Is the Industry"	3:56
4.	"The Girls"	5:15
5.	"Acceptable in the 80s"	5:32
6.	"Neon Rocks"	3:48
7.	"Traffic Cops"	0:54
8.	"Vegas"	5:41
9.	"I Created Disco"	4:07
10.	"Disco Heat"	4:30
11.	"Vault Character"	0:08
12.	"Certified"	4:06
13.	"Love Souvenir"	4:18
14.	"Electro Man"	4:58

UK and Australian iTunes Store bonus track^[16]^[17]
No.	Title	Length
15.	"We're All the Same"	3:56

Italian iTunes Store bonus tracks^[18]
No.	Title	Length
15.	"Acceptable in the 80s" (Tom Neville Remix)	7:11
16.	"The Girls" (Groove Armada Remix)	8:04
17.	"Merrymaking at My Place" (Deadmau5 Remix)	5:28

Japanese edition bonus tracks^[19]
No.	Title	Length
15.	"Rock 'N Roll Attitude"	3:19
16.	"Love for You"	3:52
17.	"The Girls" (Groove Armada Remix)	8:03
18.	"Acceptable in the 80s" (Tom Neville Remix)	7:16

French edition bonus disc^[20]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Rock 'N Roll Attitude"	3:19
2.	"We're All the Same"	3:56
3.	"Love for You"	3:52
4.	"Merrymaking at My Place" (Mr Oizo Remix)	3:29
5.	"Acceptable in the 80s" (Tom Neville Remix)	7:16
6.	"The Girls" (Groove Armada Remix)	8:03
7.	"The Girls" (Acoustic Version)	3:30

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of I Created Disco.^[21]

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

Charts

Chart (2007–08)	Peak position
Australian Dance Albums (ARIA)^[22]	11
European Albums (Billboard)^[23]	32
French Albums (SNEP)^[24]	95
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[25]	34
Scottish Albums (OCC)^[26]	6
UK Albums (OCC)^[27]	8
UK Dance Albums (OCC)^[28]	1
US Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)^[29]	19

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
United Kingdom (BPI)^[2]	Gold	223,845^[3]

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Ref.
Ireland	15 June 2007	Fly Eye Columbia	^[30]
United Kingdom	18 June 2007	Fly Eye Columbia	^[31]
Japan	27 June 2007	Sony	^[19]
Australia	6 July 2007	Red Label	^[32]
United States	4 September 2007	Almost Gold	^[33]
Benelux	13 January 2008	[PIAS]	^[34]
France	4 February 2008	Cinq 7 Wagram	^[20]
Germany	18 April 2008	Ministry of Sound	^[35]

References

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↑ Diver, Mike (8 June 2007). "Calvin Harris – I Created Disco". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 21 August 2007.
↑ Costa, Maddy (8 June 2007). "Calvin Harris, I Created Disco". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
↑ Naylor, Tony (13 June 2007). "Calvin Harris". NME. Retrieved 14 September 2007.
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↑ Brown, Ally (29 June 2007). "Calvin Harris – I Created Disco". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 17 July 2007.
↑ Mackay, Emily (19 June 2007). "Calvin Harris – 'I Created Disco'". Yahoo! Music. Archived from the original on 19 August 2008. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
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↑ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
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↑ "Official Dance Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
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↑ "Calvin Harris – I Created Disco" (in German). Ministry of Sound. Retrieved 30 September 2011.

Calvin Harris

Discography

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