Days Of Youth (Album)

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**Days Of Youth** - Debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Manu. The album was released on October 2, 2022 and was promoted with 6 singles - "*My Kinda World*", "*Endless Love*", "*The World We're Livin' In"*, "*That One Moment I Wanna Be The Bad Guy*", "*Revenge Is Coming*" and "*Influence*". The main genres of the album include Pop and Country.

## Background and Release

Manu started by releasing his debut single, ''***My Kinda World***'', which peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single remains Manu's most streamed song on Spotify and throughout the world. Selling almost 10 million copies worldwide, ''My Kinda World'' stays one of the most successful debut singles of all time.

The next single, ''***Endless Love***'', had the same success of the debut single. It peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. It also made Manu win his first ever music award, a Billboard Music Award, for one of the most major categories, Song Of The Year. Later on October 2nd, 2021, Manu finally released his long-anticipated debut studio album, ''***Days Of Youth***'', which debuted at #1 and stayed on the chart for years and years. The album has over 6 billion streams on Spotify, more than 15 billion views on YouTube, and sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Altogether, the album sold over 20 million copies singles included.

## Singles and Promotion

The first and lead single from the album, which is also Manu's debut single, titled ''**My Kinda World**'', came out on September 28th, 2021. ''My Kinda World'' itself was Manu's breakthrough single, with over 2 billion streams on Spotify, around 5 billion worldwide, and more than 2.5 billion views on YouTube. The song genre was a mix of country and pop. The song faced critical acclaim and received a lot of love from the world.

Then, on September 29th, Manu dropped his second single titled ''***Endless Love***'' , turning out to be more successful than ''My Kinda World''. It has more than 1.5 billion streams on Spotify, and more than 3 billion worldwide. ''Endless Love'' stays as one of the most cherished love song till now. This song even made Manu win his first ever Billboard Music Award for Song Of The Year.

September 30th, 2021, Manu releases his third single, ''***The World We're Livin' In***''. The single itself sold over 7 million copies worldwide and is still known for its catchiness and the carefully-masterpieced and crafted lyrics. The song did not have as much success as its two precedators, but it is still one of Manu's most popular singles with more than 1 billion streams on Spotify alone, and over 2.5B views on Youtube.

Manu released his debut album, and on the release date, he released his single ''***That One Moment I Wanna Be The Bad Guy***'' on Otober 2nd, peaking in top 10 in the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, and having more than 2 billion views on Youtube, and 1 billion streams on Spotify.

The fifth and supposedly last single from the album, ''***Revenge Is Coming***'', dropped the following day on October 3rd. The single peaked at #3 on Billboard Hot 100 and has more than 2 billion views on Youtube and over 1 billion streams on Spotify.

Years later, specifically 10 years after the release of his debut album, Manu released the final single as 'celebration' for this time-milestone. The single titled ''***Influence***'' featuring two of Manu's dear best friends in music, namely Umang and Jakee, came out, with more than 2 billion views on Youtube and almost 1 billion streams on Spotify.

### Promotion

Manu embarked on the Days Of Youth Tour on the 2nd of October, 2021 itself and the tour ended on October 9th, 2021. The tour spawned 79 shows and was held in 3 main continents - Europe, North America, Oceania. The tour had an estimated attendance of 1.7 million people and had a box office of $179M.

## Singles and Peaks

 Endless Love
 The World We're Livin' In
 That One Moment I Wanna Be The Bad Guy
 Revenge Is Coming
 Influence

## Days Of Youth: Perspective

Manu of course revealed a lot about the backstory of Days Of Youth. ''*My Kinda World*'' is all about himself, what he loves to do the most: that is baking, songwriting and singing. ''*The World We're Livin' In*'' is about Manu's representation of the world. All the good and bad aspects of the world, some speculate that it was all about the pressure and 'rules' of the music industry. Manu did not confirm this yet, and the probability that he will is very low. Manu revealed that ''*That One Moment I Wanna Be The Bad Guy*'' and ''*Revenge Is Coming*'' were both written on the same day when Manu was betrayed by one of his closest friends. Nothing else has been revealed about those two songs.

Being a debut album, of course Days Of Youth had lackings. Manu faced a lot of hate for his voice : ''*Was it strong enough?*''. And more aspects of the album were unappreciated by the public. But this did not tear Manu down, it instead made him come back stronger than a 90s trend with his next single, ''*Unrelentless Insulting*'' from his sophomore album.

## Special Concerts

On the 10th Year Anniversary of Days Of Youth, Manu handpicked 500 members of the Manu Army and had a mini-concert with them in hiw own house. In that concert, he performed all the songs from his debut album, and hits that he had in that time span, namely *"Daylight", "Unrelentless Insulting", "Teenage Dreams", "It Was All Good Until", "Happily Ever After", "Our Story", "Glad Ur Gone"*, and also his newly-released single at that time, "*Welcome To Mauritius".*