Milky Way

> “ I started an album already a year ago, over a year ago, but I want to keep creating, and it's not done yet. So I'm going to take my time, and ready to go again as soon as possible. “— Cyrus Uy about the album.
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## **Information**

### **Genre(s)**

EDM, electropop, dance-pop, house, tropical house, deep house, electronica

### **Length**

51.84
 62.27 (deluxe)

**Milky Way** (stylized as *"*milky way") is Jason Davis Williams's ninth studio album. It released through MMA Records on January 18, 2019. The album started recording on February 11, 2017 and finished on June 1, 2018.

## Background

### Early stages as Sundown:

Following the release of Jason’s eighth studio album, *Autumn Romance* on September 11, 2016, which was met with positive reviews, Jason confirmed he began working and writing on the album on his Snapchat and Twitter later that month. Recording sessions began on February 11, 2017 and continued through 2017 and 2018.

On January 12, 2018, Floyd Martinez uploaded a photo on Instagram Stories editing a song for Jason. Christian Simpson tells Variety that the album has a more mature sound: “It’s time for Jason to sing the songs that define him. Jason has big vocal moments; it’s time for his song.” Jason soon began hinting at the title by posting photos of sun online.

On April 22, 2018, during an interview, Jason announced that the theme will be a different to “Autumn Romance”. He says that it will be very “out of this world” and that he will go back to his roots of electropop and EDM themed. On April 25, 2018, Jason stated that the special song he was hinting at would be called "Sundown" and the album would have the same name. He saids, “I have a playlist of 12 songs already. I plan on writing a lot more as soon as I get home. It's the most personal music I’ve ever written.” On June 1, 2018, Jason confirmed on Snapchat that he was done with album #9. On the same day, it was revealed that the album would release in December 2018-January 2019 with the first single being released around July 2018.

On June 1, 2018, he also revealed during an interview that this album will be the last album for a while. He states, “I loved making music but acting has always been the first for me”. After this album, he will focus on acting.

### Renaming the album:

On July 14, 2018, he removed "sundown" from his Twitter bio which made fans suspicious. He responded by saying "you'll see" and then revealed he was debating to rename the album over a new song he had recorded. It was revealed that the new album has been renamed to “Milky Way” on July 20, 2018.

On July 24, 2018, Jason launched a 40-day countdown of the first single called Supernova to be released on August 31, 2018. On August 18, 2018, it was reported that Jason may move up the lead single release to August 24, 2018 due to labelmate Mackenzie Ann Kelly's album being released on August 31. It was announced on August 23, 2018 that the single release date has been moved up to August 24.

On October 16, 2018, Jason launched a 30-day countdown of the second single called universal God, featuring Missy Elliot, to be released on November 16, 2018. He also announced the album will be released in January 18, 2019 by accident during an interview and announced 3 songs in the album which is, “cloud dreamin”, “universal God”, “intergalactic”. He also announced he will be dropping a christmas single in December and To The Beat will release its theme song as a single in October 18, 2018.

On November 30, 2018, Jason announced his promo single will be “intergalactic” and it is set to release on December 14, 2018 along with the album pre-order.

## Recording

He posted on his Snapchat and tweeted that he was in the studio on February 11, 2017 - June 26, 2017 and January 12, 2018-June 1, 2018. he was not able to record between June 27, 2017-Early January due to other acting related projects.

## Singles

The first single, “SUPERNOVA”, which featured Ella Eyre and Sigala released on August 24, 2018.

The second single, “universal God”, which featured Missy Elliot released on November 16, 2018.

The third single, "comet", which featured Major Lazer and Nicki Minaj released on March 24, 2019.

The fourth and final single, "galaxy" which featured Pharrell Williams and Calvin Harris released on May 18, 2019.

#### Promotional single

The first promotional single, “intergalactic” released on December 14, 2018.

The second promotional single, “sundown”, which will be featuring Ty Dollar $ign and Nick Jonas, released on January 18, 2019 (same day as the album release).

The third and final promotional single, "air", which featured Dua Lipa released on April 30, 2019.

## Trivia

* This album been worked on for nearly 2 years.
* This is Jason’s first proper album since 2017’s Christmas Night (with a 3 years gap without an album).
* This album was actually going to be released at Fall or Winter 2019. However, it will be too long to wait so it has been pushed up to an January 2019 release.
* All track titles are stylized in lowercase apart from "universal God", which is stylized in sentence case, and "SUPERNOVA".
* The first song recorded was "cloud dreamin"
* The last song recorded was "isolation"
* Jason's top three favourite songs from the album are "intergalactic", "isolation" and a tie between "saturn rings" and "air".
	+ Cyrus also added "golden night" and "sun/moon" to his "top three".