Welcome to the Dance

Welcome to the Dance
Studio album by
No Angels
Released11 September 2009
Recorded2008–2009
Length50:06
Label
Producer
No Angels chronology
Very Best of No Angels
(2008) 		Welcome to the Dance
(2009) 		20
(2021)
Singles from Welcome to the Dance
  1. "One Life"
    Released: 21 August 2009

Welcome to the Dance is the fifth studio album by all-female German pop group No Angels, released by Polydor and Universal Music Domestic throughout German-speaking Europe on 11 September 2009. The band's second post-reunion effort following their reformation as a quartet in 2007, it was written, produced and recorded in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York City between the years of 2008 and 2009, featuring production by Nasri, Hakim Bell, Bill Blast, Adam Messinger, and Aaron Pearce, among others.[1]

After releasing lukewarm-received comeback album Destiny (2007) and their performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, the band collaborated with a range of American and Canadian producers and songwriters on the album. Pursuing a new musical direction, Welcome to the Dance took the group's work further into the dance and electronic genre, introducing a more international sound.[2][3] However, upon release, the album received generally mixed reviews by critics, who criticized the band for their missing individuality.[4]

Commercially, the album underperformed, becoming the group's lowest-charting effort to date. In Germany, it debuted and peaked at number twenty-six, becoming the band's first regular album neither to reach the top ten nor the top twenty.[5] The album's leading track "One Life", still made it to the top twenty on the German Singles Chart.[5] A second single, titled "Derailed", was actually scheduled for a 27 November release but was scrapped for unknown reasons.[6][7]

  1. ^ Bischof, Astrid (1 July 2009). "Welcome – das neue Leben der Nadja Benaissa". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 16 September 2009. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
  2. ^ Deutsche Presse-Agentur (1 July 2009). "Album mit neuem Sound" (in German). Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2009 – via Neue Presse.
  3. ^ "Interview Mit Bill Blast Und M'Jestie". NoAngels-Inside (in German). 1 July 2009. Archived from the original on 28 July 2009. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  4. ^ Dobler, Eberhard. "No Angels – Welcome to the Dance review". laut.de (in German). Retrieved 20 July 2009.
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  7. ^ Schulz, Paul (2 September 2009). "Nadja Benaissa im d@h_blog-Interview: 'Ich war wie die WM'". magazin.hiv (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2010.