Ladies Night (Atomic Kitten album)

Ladies Night is the third and final studio album by English girl group Atomic Kitten released on 10 November 2003. "If You Come to Me" was released as the lead single from the album on 27 October 2003, followed by the second single "Ladies' Night" featuring Kool & the Gang, which was released on 15 December 2003. The third and final single "Someone like Me" was released on 29 March 2004 and was the group's official last single following the announcement of their indefinite hiatus.

Ladies Night
Studio album by
Atomic Kitten
Released10 November 2003 (2003-11-10)
RecordedSeptember 2002 – April 2003
Studio
  • Metropolis Studios
  • The Motor Museum Studio
  • Wise Buddha Music Studios
Genre
Length52:37
Label
Producer
Atomic Kitten chronology
Atomic Kitten
(2003)		 Ladies Night
(2003)		 Greatest Hits
(2004)
Singles from Right Now
  1. "If You Come to Me"
    Released: 27 October 2003
  2. "Ladies' Night"
    Released: 15 December 2003
  3. "Someone like Me"
    Released: 29 March 2004
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Guardian[2]

"Be with You" is featured on the album but not listed as a single due to being released a year earlier as a double A-side single alongside "The Last Goodbye", which was featured on the group's second album "Feels So Good". The album achieved double platinum status in the UK in 2003.

Background

In April 2003, the album Atomic Kitten was released in the United States, which consisted of tracks from their first two albums. The album was commercially unsuccessful, although single "The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)" appeared on the soundtrack for the Disney Channel Original Movie The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003). Following this, the group opted to focus solely on the European, Oceanian, South African and Asian markets and began work on their third album.[3]

Before recording started, American R&B group Kool & the Gang approached the group about a collaboration for their album of duets, The Hits: Reloaded (2004). Kool & the Gang wanted to record an updated version of their hit "Ladies Night" and were looking for a girl group to sing the lyrics. Atomic Kitten liked the idea and inquired whether they could use it for their next album which was subsequently named Ladies Night in honour of this collaboration.[4] Atomic Kitten spent late 2002 and early 2003 in the studio recording their third studio album. Up until the recording of Ladies Night, the group mainly relied on songwriters, though they had occasionally co-written songs featured on their albums. While recording Ladies Night, they decided to be directly involved in the creation of eight of the fifteen songs.[4][5]

Chart performance

Ladies Night debuted and peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart, selling 48,000 copies in its first week of release.[6] It was a considerable decline from the band's previous two studio albums Right Now (2000) and Feels So Good (2002), both of which had been certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and became number-one hits.[7] A steady seller, Ladies Night was however certified platinum by the BPI for the shipment of over 550,000 copies in the United Kingdom.[8]

Track listing
Ladies Night – Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Ladies Night" (featuring Kool & the Gang)
3:08
2."Be with You"
  • Howes
  • Harrington
3:38
3."Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
  • Jenny Frost
  • Dominic Thrupp
  • Mark Ralph
  • Paul Olawoyin
  • Paul Wright
  • Theeyazan Ahmed
  • Howes
  • Harrington
3:43
4."If You Come to Me"
  • Stannard
  • Gallagher
  • Howes[b]
  • Harrington[b]
3:46
5."Believer"
  • Howes
  • Harrington
  • Nowels
3:46
6."Everything Goes Around"
  • Frost
  • Anthony Griffiths
  • Christopher Griffiths
  • Howes
  • Harrington
3:06
7."Somebody like You"
  • Howes
  • Harrington
  • Davis
3:57
8."Nothing in the World"
  • Robson
3:59
9."Always Be My Baby"
  • The True North Music Company
3:20
10."I Won't Be There"
  • Hamilton
  • Barlow
  • Kennedy
  • Woodcock
  • The True North Music Company
3:53
11."Never Get Over You"
  • McClarnon
  • Davis
  • Howes
  • Harrington
3:57
12."Don't You Know"
  • Davis
  • Howes
  • Harrington
  • Howes
  • Harrington
  • Davis
3:24
13."Loving You"
  • Howes
  • Harrington
3:11
14."Don't Let Me Down"
  • Frost
  • Howes
  • Harrington
  • Howes
  • Harrington
3:40
15."Someone like Me"
  • McClarnon
  • Ciaron Bell
  • Bell
2:09
Japanese bonus tracks[9]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
16."Eternal Flame" (single version)
  • Ray Ruffin
3:15
17."Whole Again" (2001 version)
  • Engine
3:05
18."The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)"Holt, Evans, Barrett, Padley, Godfrey
3:28
19."Good Times"
  • Frost
  • Nichols
  • Ben Chapman
  • Howes
  • Harrington
3:32

Notes and sample credits

Charts

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[22] Gold 20,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[23] Gold 15,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ)[24] Gold 7,500^
United Kingdom (BPI)[8] Platinum 300,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References
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  22. "Discos de oro y platino" (in Spanish). Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
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