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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
Released	10 November 2003 (2003-11-10)
Recorded	September 2002 – April 2003
Studio	Metropolis Studios The Motor Museum Studio Wise Buddha Music Studios
Genre	Pop dance-pop
Length	52:37
Label	Innocent Virgin
Producer	Hugh Goldsmith (exec.) Khalis Bayyan Ciaron Bell Rob Davis Julian Gallagher Leigh Guest Martin Harrington Ash Howes Rick Nowels Steve Robson Richard "Biff" Stannard The True North Music Company Andy Whitmore
Atomic Kitten chronology
Atomic Kitten (2003) Ladies Night (2003) Greatest Hits (2004)
Singles from Ladies Night
"If You Come to Me" Released: 27 October 2003 "Ladies' Night" Released: 15 December 2003

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Guardian	[2]

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

Notes and sample credits

• ^{^[a]} denotes co-producer
• ^{^[b]} denotes additional producer
• "Be with You" contains a sample from "Last Train to London" performed by Electric Light Orchestra.

Charts

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Austria (IFPI Austria)[22]	Gold	15,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[8]	Platinum	300,000^
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

External links

• Ladies Night at Discogs (list of releases)

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