Scottish singer-songwriter and producer Calvin Harris has managed to break a chart record previously held by Michael Jackson - after the eighth track from his latest album ‘18 Months’ achieved a Top 10 chart position.
Harris is now the proud owner of a world record, having seen his latest single ‘I Need Your Love’ - featuring Ellie Goulding - climb from #11 to #7 in the UK Singles chart. That made it the eighth track from the album to feature inside the Top 10 - beating Michael Jackson’s previous record of seven from a single album (which he achieved twice, with 'Bad' and 'Dangerous'.
In total, ‘18 Months’ has seen ‘We Found Love’, his chart-topping Florence Welch collaboration ‘Sweet Nothing’, ‘Feel So Close’, ‘Drinking from the Bottle’, ‘Bounce’, ‘Let’s Go’, ‘We’ll Be Coming Back’, and of course ‘I Need Your Love’ all peaking inside the Top 10.
Harris is absolutely ecstatic to have achieved such a feat, and has been posting about it on Twitter - he wrote:
8 top 10s from my album 18 Months now! So happy!!!
The Official Charts Company’s Martin Talbot has commented on the news, and said:
“Many artists only achieve a handful of hits in their entire careers. So for any act to secure three or four from one album is an excellent achievement. In turn, eight top 10s from one album is not just impressive, it is absolutely remarkable. And, of course, record breaking. Congratulations to Calvin Harris, the modern day hitmaker.”
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