Calvin Harris – Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2

[Juan Carlos]

I'm not going to deny that I like the styling in these pictures.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmeQvM1lTVV

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmgi8owHyJP

[Juan Carlos]

Few more hours.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmjoN2Dg-IP

[Juan Carlos]

"Promises" is available now.

[Glove Slap]

Promises is fantastic. The disappointment of One Kiss has been washed away for me.

[mike1885]

Sam Smith is really good an these upbeat dance songs. Wish he would do more of that to balance out his albums.

[Caviar]

Ehh

[SHOOTER]

I don’t hate it.

[Juan Carlos]

Benny Blanco revealed to The Official Vodafone Big Top 40 that his next single will feature Calvin Harris on vocals.

[Choco]

Cool! Any chance we are getting the album soon?

[Caviar]

My husband is singing again!

[mc54]

Sam Smith's voice is just nails on a chalkboard.

[Juan Carlos]

"Promises" debuts at #4 in the UK, becoming his 25th overall Top 10 there.

From Music Week/BuzzJack Music Forum:

With consumption in the week of 53,892 copies (including 45,657 from sales-equivalent streams), "Shotgun" ceded its paid-for sales throne to "Promises", the new collaboration between Calvin Harris and Sam Smith, which opens at No.4 with consumption of 41,407 units, of which 13,742 are paid-for sales. Harris' 36th Top 75 entry, and Smith's 16th, it raises the former's tally of Top 10 hits to 25, and the latter's to nine.

And it also becomes his 32nd Top 10 in production in the UK.

[addict03]

Promises has really grown on me. God dam! Such a slick jam.

[Juan Carlos]

The music video of "Promises" comes out at midnight PDT / tomorrow at 3am. EDT.

[Juan Carlos]

"Promises" (Music Video)

[Lumi]

So unapologetically queer and I'm here for it. Love the message too.

[Juan Carlos]

(!!!)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnWhuqugeqL

[Choco]

What does that mean? The album is coming next year? I wanted it sooner, but alright. I still have both singles in my main playlist.

[Juan Carlos]

I really hope this is album related to be honest. I mean, I doubt it's a new single because it's obvious that there will be a new one next year at this point.

[Juan Carlos]

"Promises" climbs atop in the UK this week, becoming Adam's tenth and Sam's seventh #1 there.

From Music Week/BuzzJack Music Forum:

Pipped at the post last week, when it was overhauled at the last gasp by "Eastside", "Promises" now coasts to the summit for Calvin Harris and Sam Smith on consumption of 61,813 units, including 44,633 from sales-equivalent streams.

It is 34-year-old Harris' 10th No.1 in a little over 10 years. The only other act to have as many No.1s to their credit in the 21st century are Westlife, who racked up their 10 between 2000 and 2006, having already had four in 1999. Rihanna and Eminem each have nine.

Eight of Harris' No.1s have come in the 2010s, putting him top of that list one ahead of Promises co-star Smith plus Tinie Tempah and Jess Glynne. It is the fourth time a 'promise' song has topped the chart in less than 10 years, when none had before. Cheryl (Cole) was involved in the first two, as a member of Girls Aloud for "The Promise" in 2008, and solo for "Promise This" in 2010, while Nero topped with "Promises" in 2011.

As a consequence, Adam has topped the UK singles chart eight times in the 2010s, being the act with most #1 hits this decade, although he counts "Holiday", "Call My Name", "Spectrum (Say My Name)" and "I Will Never Let You Down", the productions and remixes he has done to other artists as well. :)

[Juan Carlos]

There's going to be a vinyl release of "Promises", which includes an extended mix of the track. It's available for pre-order on his official store and it will be out on October 12.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnmOlCHAlSu

[Juan Carlos]

I don't know why he always tends to be so shady with his vocals. :(

[Caviar]

Oh Calvin...stop being to dramatic.

[Juan Carlos]

Normani teased that her collaboration with him should be out in the next few days.

[Choco]

Oct 4, 2018 13:28:44 GMT -5 Juan Carlos said:

I don't know why he always tends to be so shady with his vocals. :(

I don't recall the whole thing being destroyed by critics though... the last album I actually remember getting destroyed on Metacritic was Charlie Puth's Nine Track Mind.

[Juan Carlos]

Oct 11, 2018 12:18:16 GMT -5 Choco said:

I don't recall the whole thing being destroyed by critics though... the last album I actually remember getting destroyed on Metacritic was Charlie Puth's Nine Track Mind.

I think it was a little exaggerating from him saying that to be honest, but if I remember correctly, he always complained that I Created Disco got an star (from five) when The Guardian reviewed the album, which is below.

In his electrifying 2002 debut single, "Losing My Edge", LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy fretted that kids who 'borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered 80s' were out to make him obsolete. He could have been predicting the arrival of Calvin Harris, a 23-year-old whose debut single, "Acceptable in the 80s", recently reached the top 10. Chart success notwithstanding, Murphy has nothing to worry about. LCD's influence on Harris is obvious: "Merrymaking at My Place", the opening track on I Created Disco, could be a riff on "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" from the first LCD album. But where Murphy's music is sophisticated, engaging and danceable, I Created Disco is witless and forever tripping over its own feet. Harris's two plodding instrumentals are bad enough, but on most tracks he chants repetitive lyrics so stupid they feel like an insult to the listener. 'I can't help but play around,' he smirks on "The Girls", 'because I get all the girls.' Not this one, pal.

That said, since you mentioned Metacritic, I checked the reviews that this album got and are mentioned there and... there's one from Drowned In Sound, which I guess it implies what he said about getting 'the worst reviews known to a man'. An extract from that "review" could be read below.

Said singles (in reference of "Acceptable In The 80s" and "The Girls") are tolerable enough, truth be told – they come on the transistor and few bat an eyelid, let alone twitch a knee – but 14 tracks of exactly the same shit? Come on, Harris: this is a joke, right? Oh, wait, it can't even be that. We're not laughing.

You might be the biggest fan ever of I Created Disco's preceding standalone offerings, but you'll still be numbed statuesque by this slab of soulless, cheap-as-chips, Amiga 500-toned monkey-funk pleb-dance toss. Surely you're meant to be able to dance to dance music? Equally surely, Harris has failed to recognise this simple equation, instead filling his first – and most probably last – long-player with beats that vary precisely not at all from song to song, vocals straight out of a Xanax-chomping teenager's YouTube monologue about the state of, y'know, trivial shit, and an overall tone that's consistent only in one respect: it's consistently annoying.

Glad that this didn't stop him to make more albums though~

[Juan Carlos]

He has been submitted in the following categories at the GRAMMYs.

• "One Kiss": Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Dance Recording, Best Music Video
• "Faking It": Best R&B Performance, Best R&B Song

[Choco]

Oct 18, 2018 16:52:34 GMT -5 Juan Carlos said:

He has been submitted in the following categories at the GRAMMYs.

• "One Kiss": Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Dance Recording, Best Music Video
• "Faking It": Best R&B Performance, Best R&B Song

Rooting for OK to get that Dance award!

No way Faking It gets in.

[Juan Carlos]

His collaboration with Normani will be released on October 22.

[Juan Carlos]

"Promises" spends their sixth non-consecutive week atop in the UK.

From Music Week/BuzzJack Music Forum:

Previously No.1 for five weeks, "Promises" returns to pole position for Calvin Harris and Sam Smith, and also avoids falling into ACR for three weeks by increasing sales 1.06% week-on-week to 52,187 (including 40,700 from sales-equivalent streams) as it bounces 2-1. It was helped by the release of a 12-inch version, which debuts atop the vinyl singles chart.

Smith has now spent 15 weeks at No.1 in his career, while Harris – who was previously tied on 30 weeks with Abba and Justin Bieber – has now spent 31, a tally bettered only by Elvis Presley (80 weeks), The Beatles (69 weeks), Cliff Richard (46 weeks), The Shadows (44 weeks, including 28 with Cliff) and Frankie Laine (32 weeks).