Nikka Costa is the debut studio album by Nikka Costa. It was released in 1981 by CGD Records in Italy in conjunction with CBS Records when Costa was nine years old, fifteen years before her first album for older audiences was released, and twenty years before her breakthrough album Everybody Got Their Something.
Costa's cover of "(Out Here) On My Own", originally from the musical film Fame, was released as a single from the album. The single topped the charts in Italy and Europe.[1][2] The single's success prompted suspicions that Costa would be a one-hit wonder, and that her success would be short-lived, but neither of these predictions came true. Instead, by September 1982, the album had sold over 200,000 copies in Italy alone, and about 1.5 million copies worldwide.[3]
^"Nikka Costa está no Rio e grava especiais". Última Hora (in Brazilian Portuguese): 3. January 11, 1983. Retrieved October 19, 2021. (...) the singer said she is happy to return to Brazil, where she has been for a year and a half to promote the release of her first LP, Nikka Costa, whose sales in the country reached 120 thousand copies. (...)
^Carlos, Luiz (January 28, 1983). "Nikka Costa no Brasil". A Luta Democrática (in Brazilian Portuguese): 4. Retrieved October 19, 2021. Nikka Costa, the girl who is conquering the whole world and was certified Platinum, last year, with On My Own and the Gold with her first album for CBS (...)
^Anna Campanelli (19 September 1981). "Incontri al lido - Nikka snobbata". Corriere della Sera. p. 64. Retrieved 14 September 2021. ha preso il microfono e ha cantato ambedue i pezzi del disco premiato (solo in Italia 500.000 copie) Chained to the blues, On my own
