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Studio album by Moby | ||||||||||
Released | May 14, 2002 | |||||||||
Recorded | 2001–2002 | |||||||||
Genre | Electronica, downtempo, ambient house, house | |||||||||
Length | 71:26 | |||||||||
Label | Mute (STUMM 202), V2, BMG | |||||||||
Producer | Moby | |||||||||
Moby chronology | ||||||||||
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Metacritic | (61/100)[1] |
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Entertainment Weekly | (A−)[5] |
Pitchfork Media | (2.6/10)[6] |
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18 is the sixth studio album by American electronica musician Moby released in 2002. The most successful single from the album was "We Are All Made of Stars", which reached number 11 on the UK Singles Chart.[citation needed] The album features guest appearances by Azure Ray, MC Lyte, Angie Stone, and Sinéad O'Connor. A collection of the album's B-sides and video footage was released a year later on 18 B Sides + DVD.
Critical response to this album was positive to mixed, with many critics feeling it was too much of a retread of his previous releases and lacked inspiration. The album debuted at number 1 in the UK and many other European countries.[citation needed] It also peaked at number 4 in the Billboard 200.[citation needed] 18 earned gold and platinum awards in over 30 countries, and sold more than five million copies worldwide, which was a respectable number for an electronica album, even when its sales figure didn't even reach the half of amounts sold by its predecessor, the blockbuster Play.[citation needed]
Contents |
No. | Title | Length | |
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1. | "We Are All Made of Stars" | 4:32 | |
2. | "In This World" (featuring Jennifer Price) | 4:02 | |
3. | "In My Heart" (featuring The Shining Light Gospel Choir) | 4:36 | |
4. | "Great Escape" (featuring Azure Ray) | 2:09 | |
5. | "Signs of Love" | 4:25 | |
6. | "One of These Mornings" (featuring Dianne McCaulley) | 3:12 | |
7. | "Another Woman" | 3:56 | |
8. | "Fireworks" | 2:13 | |
9. | "Extreme Ways" | 3:57 | |
10. | "Jam for the Ladies" (featuring MC Lyte & Angie Stone) | 3:22 | |
11. | "Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)" | 5:09 | |
12. | "18" | 4:28 | |
13. | "Sleep Alone" | 4:45 | |
14. | "At Least We Tried" (featuring Freedom Bremner) | 4:08 | |
15. | "Harbour" (featuring Sinéad O'Connor) | 6:27 | |
16. | "Look Back In" | 2:20 | |
17. | "The Rafters" (featuring Shauna and Lorraine Phillips) | 3:22 | |
18. | "I'm Not Worried at All" (featuring The Shining Light Gospel Choir) | 4:11 |
Preceded by The Last Broadcast by Doves |
UK number one album May 25–31, 2002 |
Succeeded by Destination by Ronan Keating |
Preceded by Laundry Service by Shakira |
Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album May 20–26, 2002 |
Succeeded by The Eminem Show by Eminem |
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Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), better known by his stage name Moby, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer. He is well known for his electronic music, vegan lifestyle, and support of animal rights. Moby has sold over 20 million albums worldwide.AllMusic considers him "one of the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring the music to a mainstream audience both in the UK and in America".
Moby gained attention in the early 1990s with his electronic dance music work, which experimented in the techno and breakbeat hardcore genres. With his fifth studio album, the electronica and house music-influenced Play, he gained international success. Originally released in mid-1999, the album sold 6,000 copies in its first week, and it re-entered the charts in early 2000 and became an unexpected hit, producing eight singles and selling over 10 million copies worldwide. Moby followed the album in 2002 with 18, which was also successful, selling over 5 million copies worldwide and receiving mostly positive reviews, though some criticized it for being too similar to Play.
The Moby programming language is an experiment in computer programming, design and implementation.The Moby project started out as a testbed for the design of ML2000.
Moby is primarily a collaboration between Kathleen Fisher and John Reppy. Much of the work on Moby was done while John Reppy was an MTS at Bell Labs in the Computing Sciences Research Center.
Moby or MOBY may refer to:
As a nickname or stage name:
MOBY:
Other uses:
instrumental