8 Letters is Why Don't We's debut studio album that was released on August 31, 2018 by Atlantic Records and Warner Music Group
Tracklisting[]
- 8 Letters 3:10
- Talk 3:10
- Choose 2:53
- In Too Deep 3:15
- Friends 3:34
- Hard 3:16
- Hooked 3:25
- Falling 3:35
- Trust Fund Baby 3:04
- These Girls 2:50
- Something Different 2:42
Chart Performance[]
"8 Letters" peaked at #9 on the Billboard 200. It also made the charts in Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom.
Critical Reception[]
Chris DeVille of StereoGum wrote that the album's "eight tracks of shiny assembly line pop are sometimes painfully adolescent in terms of subject matter — the vaguely Latin tropical jam “Friends” is about throwing a weekend-long rager “’cause your friend’s daddy got a real big house” (“and I swear we won’t break a thing”) — but most of them could work as singles."
Elias Leight of Rolling Stone gave the album a two-in-a-half star rating, saying that it "feels aimless, like a series of genre exercises hastily thrown together."
The Musical Hype called it "an enjoyable, respectable debut album."