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***Dafne*** is the self-titled debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Dafne. Its was released on February 25, 2014 by Zig Zag Records and distributed through Universal Music Group. The recording sessions from the album begun in May 2013, a week after Dafne signed a recording contract with Zig Zag Records, a subsidiary label of Universal Music Group, founded by Isaac Taun, who heard her demo album sent in January that same year sent by Oliver Buchorn, Dafne's best friend and producer of her two first singles "Reason" released in 2012, and "Best Kept Secret" in 2013, and five others included on her demo album. Taun thus offered Dafne a five-album recording solo contract, while Buchorn remained the albums' executive producers.

Co-writing all songs included on the album, Dafne addresses topics such as romantic relationships, breakups, self-discovery, among others. The album's production featured producers Oliver Buchorn, Alex Nosti, who together served as the album's executive producer, Catherine Marks, Beatrice Romano, Jimmy Codan, and duo Nizwa. Focused on pop rock sound, and inspired by artists such as Janis Joplin, Alanis Morissette, Britney Spears, and Prince, who Dafne grew up listening to, musically the album also brings influences from dance, indie-pop, pop-punk, soft-rock, and new wave occasionally.

The album debuted at number nine on the US *Billboard 200* and in its fifth week of release reached number two earning 219,000 album-equivalent units, including 166,000 pure album sales, topping Finland, France, Italy, Norway and Poland and reached top three in various countries, incluiding Australia, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Portugal, Scotland, and United Kingdom, selling 1,036,000 copies by October 2020 in the country. The album became the ninth best-selling album of 2010s, selling over 12 million copies, and has been seven times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments exceeding seven million copies album-equivalent units, which consists of 3,609,000 album pure sales. Since then the album has been certified platinum in over twenty countries, and diamond in Australia, Brazil, France where the album sold more than 500,000 copies, Philipphines, and Poland. Dafne was nominated for Best New Artist, and Best Pop Vocal Album at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. It was ranked number nine on *Rolling Stone*'s list of the 100 Best Debuts Albums of All Time and number ninety-eight on the list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2021 list.

A total of six singles was released, the lead single "Explain What I Feel" entered the U.S Billboard Hot 100 chart at number eight on January 4, 2014, while second single "Missed Call" reached number one week later, remainied for five non-consecutive weeks, becoming Dafne first Diamond certified single by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and also reached the top three in Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and United Kingdom, and was nominated at 57th Annual Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The third single from the album, "On a Tighropel" was a massive sucess and won Best Dance Recording at 2015 cerimony. The album also included the singles "Crosswords", "1001 Nights" Dafne second U.S Hot 100 number one, "Inner Superhero", which was nominted for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, becoming Dafne the youngest artist to be nominated two consecutive years for these awards. Dafne promoted the album by performing in various television show, state fairs, festivals, and her debut concert tour, Dafne in Concert between 2014 and 2015, which grossed US$43.6 million, later released was a concert film under the name *Dafne - 78 Nights with You* on November 6, 2015, receiving generally possitive reviews from critics, the film grossed $189.6 million worldwide

## Track listing

***Dafne*** – Stardand edition

1. "Missed Call" – 3:18
2. "Soulmate" – 3:17
3. "Cry" – 3:09
4. "Explain What I Feel" – 3:36
5. "On a Tighrope" – 3:39
6. "The Things I Didn't Do" – 3:57
7. "Inner Superhero" – 4:12
8. "Morning Light" – 3:21
9. "1001 Nights" – 3:51
10. "Crosswords" – 4:05
11. "So Many Lies" – 3:42
12. "You Don't Care" – 3:18

## Singles

Singles from ***Dafne***

 2. "Missed Call"
 3. "On a Tighrope"
 4. "Crosswords"
 5. "1001 Nights"
 6. "Inner Superhero"
Released: September 9, 2014