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{{Infobox album
| name = The Blast
| type = studio
| artist = [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
| cover = The Blast (album).jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|df=yes|1999|7|23}}
| recorded = 1996-1998
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Pop music|Pop]], [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]], [[Fusion (music)|Fusion]], [[Carnatic music|Classical Carnatic]]
| length = 47:46
| label = [[Pyramid Saimira|Pyramid Audio]]
| producer = [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
| chronology = [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]] ([[Indian pop|Indipop]])
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = [[Song of Youth (album)|Song of Youth]]
| next_year = 2011
}}

'''''The Blast''''' is the first [[Indian pop|Indipop]] [[studio album]] by [[India]]n musician [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]], released in July 1999. It features 12 tracks, which were all composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja.

==Production==
[[Yuvan Shankar Raja]] started working on an independent studio album, even before stepping into the [[Tamil film industry]], working as a [[film composer]] and [[music director]]. It was, in fact, this album, which made possible his entry into film business, since producer T. Siva approached and eventually assigned him to compose the score for his 1997 [[Tamil cinema|Tamil film]] ''[[Aravindhan]]'', after having listened to a couple of tracks, Yuvan Shankar had composed from this album.<ref name="tfmpage">{{cite web|url=http://www.tfmpage.com/forum/archives/20550.03.13.03.html|title=YSR in London|publisher=tfmpage.com|accessdate=2009-07-01}}</ref>

He worked for nearly 2 years on this album, which finally got released in July 1999. But since he wasn't popular and not a [[Celebrity|household name]] yet during the time, his album went totally unnoticed and failed to gain attraction, though featuring some very popular artists as actor [[Kamal Haasan]], Carnatic-based singers [[Nithyashree Mahadevan]], [[P. Unnikrishnan|Unnikrishnan]] and [[Srinivas (singer)|Srinivas]].<ref name="unpopular">{{cite web|url=http://dexterlaboratory.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/yuvans-album-the-blast/|title=Yuvan's Album "THE BLAST"|publisher=dexterlabotatory.com|accessdate=2009-07-01}}</ref>

According to Yuvan Shankar Raja, the album is based on the thought of [[World Peace]].<ref name="tfmpage"/> He tells, that during the time, he was working on this album, India was carrying out [[Nuclear testing]], which he had used as the inspiration, from which also the title is derived.<ref name="tfmpage"/>

==Track listing==
# "Oli Veesum" — 6:09
# "Nee Thane" — 5:56
# "Chippikule Muthu Pookkal" — 5:43
# "Poovea Puthirae" — 3:50
# "Oru Naal" — 3:05
# "Mama Mama" — 6:52
# "Poradu Poradu Poovodu" — 5:45
# "Vaa Nanbane" — 3:38
# "Mama Mama" <small>(Instrumental)</small> — 6:51
# "Sonnare" — 5:56
# "Unn Ninaivai" — 4:21
# "Aval Devathai" — 2:24

==Release history==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Region
! Date
! Label
! Format
! Catalog
|-
| [[Malaysia]] / [[India]]
| July 23, 1999
| rowspan="2"|[[Pyramid Saimira|Pyramid Audio]]
| [[CD]]
| 8839
|-
| [[North America]]
| July 28, 1999
| CD
|
|}

==Personnel==
Following people are credited:<ref name="credits">{{cite web|url=http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/pop/m/music_director.1046/ |title=The Blast |publisher=musicindiaonline.com |accessdate=2009-07-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821180716/http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/pop/m/music_director.1046 |archivedate=August 21, 2009 }}</ref><ref name="credits2">{{cite web|url=http://tfmpage.com/forum/archives/4592.26908.22.36.14.html|title='THE BLAST' - Album from Yuvan Shankar Raja!|publisher=tfmpage.com|accessdate=2009-07-01}}</ref>
* Vocals:
** [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]] (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12)
** [[Kamal Haasan]] (tracks 3, 8, 12)
** Rajalakshmi (track 3)
** [[Srinivas (singer)|Srinivas]] (track 4)
** [[P. Unnikrishnan|Unnikrishnan]] (track 5)
** [[Nithyasree Mahadevan]] (track 5)
** Nagoor Hanifa (track 6)
* Lyrics:
** [[Sujatha (writer)|Sujatha]]
** Vasan
** Parthi Bhaskar
** Kavi Ravi

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090821180716/http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/pop/m/music_director.1046 The Blast] at MusicIndiaOnline

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