18 Months is the third studio album by Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris. It was released on 26 October 2012 by Columbia Records. The album includes the singles "Bounce", "Feel So Close", "Let's Go", "We'll Be Coming Back", "Sweet Nothing", and "Drinking from the Bottle". The album debuted atop the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 52,356 copies, earning Harris his second consecutive number-one album in the United Kingdom. Harris first unveiled the album's artwork on 13 September 2012 via Twitter.18 Months is the third studio album by Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris. It was released on 26 October 2012 by Columbia Records. The album includes the singles "Bounce", "Feel So Close", "Let's Go", "We'll Be Coming Back", "Sweet Nothing", and "Drinking from the Bottle". The album debuted atop the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 52,356 copies, earning Harris his second consecutive number-one album in the United Kingdom. Harris first unveiled the album's artwork on 13 September 2012 via Twitter.false2025-11-08 04:43:3418 Months20122012-10-312012-10-3166Electronic111680213320789787c7d-bd77-4ba4-ae6d-d671d4c0dbec8dd98bdc-80ec-4e93-8509-2f46bafc09a798432828-5764-4892-9e3f-9c674cf70acb/media/data/media5/Music/Calvin Harris/18 Months/folder.jpgCalvin HarrisCalvin Harris feat. Ayah MararCalvin Harris feat. Dizzee RascalCalvin Harris feat. Ellie GouldingCalvin Harris feat. ExampleCalvin Harris feat. Florence WelchCalvin Harris feat. KelisCalvin Harris feat. Ne‐YoCalvin Harris feat. RihannaCalvin Harris feat. Tinie TempahCalvin HarrisAdam Richard Wiles (born 17 January 1984), known professionally as Calvin Harris, is a Scottish DJ, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. After focusing on self-sung projects, in 2012, Harris released his third studio album, 18 Months, involving various vocalists and more EDM into it—first establishing Harris internationally. The album included the 2011 Rihanna's record "We Found Love".
His debut studio album, I Created Disco, was released in June 2007. Its singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls" both reached the top 10 in the UK. In 2009, he released his second studio album, Ready for the Weekend, which debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and whose lead single, "I'm Not Alone", became his first song to top the UK Singles Chart. In 2012, Harris rose to international prominence with the release of his third studio album, 18 Months, which topped the UK Albums Chart and became his first album to chart on the US Billboard 200, peaking at number 19. All eight of the album's singles reached the top 10 in the UK, breaking the record for the most top 10 songs from one studio album on the UK Singles Chart with eight entries, surpassing Michael Jackson's record. In 2014, he released his fourth studio album, Motion, which debuted at number two in the UK and number five in the US. In 2017, he released his fifth studio album, Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, which reached the top two in the UK and the US and became his third consecutive number one album on the US Dance/Electronic Albums chart.
In October 2014, Harris became the first artist to place three songs simultaneously on the top 10 of Billboard's Dance/Electronic Songs chart. He also became the first UK solo artist to reach more than one billion streams on Spotify. Harris has received 18 Brit Award nominations–winning British Producer of the Year and British Single of the Year in 2019, as well as five Grammy nominations, including a win for Best Music Video in 2013. In 2013 he also received a Ivor Novello Award, and was named the Top Dance/Electronic Artist at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards. He appeared on Debrett's 2017 list of the most influential people in the United Kingdom. He topped Forbes' list of the world's highest-paid DJs for six consecutive years from 2013 to 2018.