18 Album

Album cover 18 Deluxe Version

18 Album is the debut studio album by Asian musician Sam released in November 2021 by RouteNote Records.

## About Album

The album was released when Sam was just 18 years old and he wrote the lyrics for most of the songs on the album as a 16 year old boy. Produced by the management company CK Talent Magament, 18 Album is a pop and elctronic music record. The album has made Sam one of the most influential and promising young artists voted by NME magazine. Album 18 sold 900 thousand copies worldwide within 1 year. To promote the album, Sam toured 18 but had to cancel due to the prolonged covid epidemic. 18 The album received generally positive reviews from music critics, with many praising Sam's talent at a very young age. It also achieved commercial success and marked Sam's name in the music market. As of 2022, the Album has sold 1.2 million copies worldwide.

## Stories Album

If someone asked Sam when he showed his talent - it was at the age of 18, he understood that loneliness and pressure spare no one. The heartbreak, the humiliation, the dizzying weight of every single thought and overwhelming feeling: going through a nightmare of depression — none of which really leaves us and discovering it alone. honest way almost always makes good pop songs. The Asia-born musician who is also an experienced actor and current star shared about Album 18 : My years in the profession are like a story in which there is no shortage of glorious moments, even fleeting. But, what annoyed me the most were my own reflections of the failures and losses and reputations that I myself had to go through. I am afraid of being blamed by others. There are many people who want to blame themselves too much, whatever they do, make themselves a bad person or depressed to death. I cannot survive such treatment or depression again. I used to think I was going to die - Depression is a very scary thing, I used to feel like I couldn't control my emotions. I spent that time writing music, writing music and writing music. The songs in Album 18 are so real that you can imagine: it's tears, sleepless nights thinking, the smell of blood that I cut my wrists,...... Album 18 is a story - grown up story.

Listening to Sam's debut song in its entirety is to know—on a level so profound and almost uncomfortably familiar—exactly what he went through when he wrote it at the age of 18. Anchored by the song. music about life—a regular song A painful lead single,18 The album is a combination of the personal and the universal to often have devastating, diary-folding effects- like frankness and detail. autobiographical details into performances reminiscent of Taylor Swift's millennial pop music. It has the sound and feel of a Gen Z soul healer.

“All the emotions I'm feeling while writing Album 18 are very intense,” Sam said. “I called the 18 because it was a really bad time and age in my life—I remember being so sad, so insecure, and so angry. I feel all of those things, and they are still very real, but I definitely don't experience it as deeply as I used to. It's nice to go back and see how I'm feeling, and say, 'It's turned out okay. You're fine now.'” A little older and a lot wiser, Sam shares the wisdom he learned to turn it all into one of the most memorable debut albums of all time. - when it sold 1.2 million copies globally.

## Track List

###### Standard version

* 1- Intro - Desert Sahara
* 2-Lonley
* 3-dazedddd
* 4-Bla Bla Bla
* 5-Everything

##### deluxe version (add additional items)

* 1-Off My Mind
* 2-Slow
* 3-Just Lovers
* 4-Lovin' It - Lovin' It
* 5-Antidote

###### Extra song version ( Piano ver)

* Look what you made me do (Piano ver)
* I did somthing bad (Piano ver)