8

8 is the seventh international studio album (eighth release including Open Hearts soundtrack) by Anggun. It was released by Universal Music on 8 December 2017. It became her first English-language album not to have a standalone French-language version. The album’s first single, “What We Remember” was released digitally on 13 October 2017. The single reached number 19 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in the United States.

Background

Following the release of her sixth French-language album, Toujours un ailleurs (2015), Anggun was in process to complete the English version of the album by remaking its six songs. In July 2017, it was announced that Anggun signed a pan-Asian recording deal with Universal Music Asia based in Hong Kong, and her album would be released by the end of the year. She restarted the album’s recording and rejected all the English songs from the Toujours un ailleurs session, including the ones she recorded with Brian Rawling in Metrophonic Studio, London.

Titled 8, the album became Anggun’s eighth album since her international breakthrough, following Snow on the Sahara / Au nom de la lune (1997), Chrysalis / Désirs contraires (2000), Open Hearts soundtrack (2002), Luminescence (2005), Elevation (2008), Echoes / Échos (2011), and Toujours un ailleurs (2015).

Promotion

The album was launched in Apple Store, Orchard Road, Singapore, on 8 December 2017, with an acoustic showcase by the singer. Anggun also came to Manila, Philippines to do a promotional tour. “What We Remember” was released as the album’s first single on 13 October 2017, with a music video directed by Roy Raz. One of the album’s track, “The Good Is Back”, will be released as a duet featuring Indonesian singer Rossa, it was revealed in a muted instagram story from the singer herself during the studio recording session and also Malaysian singer Fazura in 2018

Track listing