I Created Disco

The album was recorded and released during a period in which dance music was considered to be in decline, and this is said to have inspired the album's title. Critics highlighted the claim by Harris of having "created disco" as being far from the truth, however, Sam Davies from Mixmag Magazine claimed that the album did show "ramblings of a fictional producer-cum- mad-professor who did create disco", and said that I Created Disco showcases a "dazzling, psychedelic dystopia". a music tracker, in Harris' home studio, called Calvinharrisbeats Studio. All 14 tracks on the album were written, produced and performed solely by Harris. ==Release and promotion==

Preceding the release of the album, Columbia released two singles, "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls", both of which achieved commercial success predominately in the United Kingdom and his native Scotland where they both reached the top ten in their respective singles charts. "The Girls" peaked at number one on the UK Dance Singles Charts, and was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in the United Kingdom, indicating sales in excess of 200,000 copies, whilst in Australia, it was certified Gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for sales in excess of 35,000 copies. "Acceptable in the 80s" was certified 2x Platinum by ARIA in Australia, indicating sales in excess of 140,000, A third and final single was released from I Created Disco following the albums official release – "Merrymaking at My Place". It failed to match the commercial success of its predecessors, peaking at number twenty-three on the singles charts in his native Scotland, and number forty-three in the United Kingdom. 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. The album was certified Gold in the United Kingdom by the BPI, selling 230,000 copies, ==Critical reception==

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. Other notable reviews including The Guardian were more critical, awarding the album one out of five stars, saying "I Created Disco is witless and forever tripping over its own feet", and also criticised Harris's use of "two plodding instrumentals", saying that they "are bad enough, but on most tracks he chants repetitive lyrics so stupid they feel like an insult to the listener". Meanwhile, Lou Thomas from the BBC was considerably more favourable of the album, saying Harris had "exquisitely tailored a calm, considered rumination on life’s great upheavals". They also praised Harris's "good sense of humour", and argued he ought to have had a sense of humour as a result of his claim of creating disco, highlighting that disco had in fact been created a significantly long time before Harris was even born. Additionally, they urged the public to "buy everything other than the album", and to subsequently "leave I Created Disco to collect dust in the bargain bin, or, better still, the bins out the back of HMV". ==Track listing==

Credits adapted from the liner notes of I Created Disco. • Calvin Harris – vocals, arrangement, instruments, production • Guy Davie – mastering • Joanne Morris – design ==Charts==

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