nvarchar string not accepting multi-lingual value

Question

I am using EF6.0 code-first.

Here is my model

public class Album
{
    [Key]
    [Required]
    public int AlbumID

    [Required]
    public string AlbumName
}

This has generated a table in my SQL Server database like this:

AlbumID (PK, int, not null)
AlbumName (nvarchar(max), not null)

But when I enter the AlbumName in any language other than English, it neither throws an error, nor does the correct value get saved.

When I run the select query it returns AlbumName as

1 , ????? ?????
2 , ????? ?????

How do I handle this?