Teenage Problems (Album)

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**Teenage Problems -** Sophomore album by American singer-songwriter Manu. The album was released on October 10th, 2021 and was promoted with 6 singles - *"Why This Change", "Unrelentless Insulting", "Better Than Me", "Tears Of Sorrow", "Teenage Dreams" and "Breaking Of One, Formation Of Two"*. The main genres of the album are *Country and Pop.*

## Background and Release

This era started right after Days Of Youth, just a few days later. The album was not as successful as Days Of Youth, but was still warmly received. Manu dropped the first single, "Why This Change?" on October 6th, 2021 to debute this era. The album was a full solo album with no collaborations. Teenage Problems was a hit with two singles peaking at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, namely "Unrelentless Insulting" and "Teenage Dreams" and the album itself peaked at #1 for 2 weeks!

## Singles and Promotion

The first single, ***"Why This Change?"*** was released on October 5th, 2021. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has over 1.2 billion streams on Spotify and 1.7 billion views on YouTube. The single sold almost 9 million copies worldwide.

***"Unrelentless Insultment"*** is the second single from *Teenage Problems* and was released on October 6th, 2021. The single peaked at #1 on Billlboard Hot 100. It has over 1.7 billion streams on Spotify and Youtube. The song sold over 11 million copies worldwide and it is Manu's highest selling single from Teenage Problems.

The third single from Teenage Problems, ***"Better Than Me"*** , was released on October 7th, 2021. The song peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. It has over 800 million streams on Spotify and 1.8 billion views on YouTube. "Better Than Me" sold over 5 million copies worldwide.

***"Tears Of Sorrow"*** was the fourth single and it was released on October 8th, 2021. The song peaked at #6 on Billboard Hot 100. It has over 800 million streams on Spotify and over 1.4 billion views on YouTube. The single sold over 3 million copies worldwide.

The fifth single titled ***"Teenage Dreams"*** dropped on October 9th, 2021 and peaked at #1 on Billboard Hot 100. "Teenage Dreams" has over 700 million streams on Spotify and 1.5 billion views on YouTube. The single sold over 9 million copies worldwide.

The album ***"Teenage Problems"*** was released on October 10, 2021. On the next day, the Deluxe Edition of the album came out and as support to the album release, Manu released a single from the Deluxe Edition, ***"Breaking Of One, Formation Of Two"*** featuring Ven. The single peaked at #11 on Billboard Hot 100 and has over 900 million streams on Spotify and over 500 million views on YouTube .The song sold over 8 million copies worldwide.

## Promotion

### Deluxe Edition

The Deluxe Edition of ***"Teenage Problems"*** dropped on October 11th, 2021. It had one additional track - ***"Breaking Of One, Formation Of Two"*** and it featured Ven. This was Manu's first ever Deluxe release.

### The Teenage Problems Stadium Tour

Manu announced that he will be embarking on this tour as from the October 16th, 2021. It was his second tour. The tour spawned 54 shows and lasted until October 29th, 2021. There was an estimated attendance of 1.1 million people and the tour had a box office of $101M.