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Destiny
Studio album by No Angels
Released	April 13, 2007
Recorded	January-March 2007; Sound Studio N (Cologne, Germany); Ghost Studios, Sound State Studio (Stockholm, Sweden)
Genre	Pop
Length	49:24
Label	Polydor/Universal
Producer	Pelle Ankarberg, Arnthor, Boogieman, Thorsten Brötzmann, Ghost, Tobias Gustafsson, Jiant, Max Martin, Mute8, Adrian Newman, Steve Robson, Roland Spremberg, Snowflakers, Twin
Professional reviews
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No Angels chronology
Acoustic Angels (2004) Destiny (2007) TBA (2008)
Singles from Destiny
"Goodbye to Yesterday" Released: March 16, 2007 "Maybe" Released: June 15, 2007 "Amaze Me"/"Teardrops" Released: October 19, 2007

Destiny is the fourth studio album by German pop group No Angels, released by Polydor Records and Universal Music Domestic on April 13, 2007 (see 2007 in music). Primarily produced by production teams Mute8 and Twin, with additional contribution from Max Martin, Steve Mac, Adrian Newman and Tobias Gustafsson among others, it was the band's first commercial album release since their break-up in the fall of 2003. The album peaked at number 4 on the German albums chart, and reached number 14 in Austria and number 22 in Switzerland.

After their secret reunion in mid-2006 and several early meetings in Stockholm, Sweden at the end of the year the No Angels eventually entered the Sound N recording studios in Cologne in January 2007 to intensify work on their then-untitled fourth album. Although the band members each had written songs for the album by themselves, they eventually decided not to include self-written material since Benaissa, Diakovska, Mölling, and Wahls struggled finding a stylistic "main thread" within their own songs.^[1] Instead, the band began recording eight partially exclusive written tracks by production duos Twin, and Itchycoo, Karen Poole, Steve Mac, and Hannah Robinson, among the album's lead single "Goodbye to Yesterday," two tracks from Swedish singer Agnes Carlsson's 2006 album Stronger, and Trine Rein's Melodi Grand Prix 2007 song "Maybe." After a few promotional appearances in early February 2007 the No Angels re-entered the studios to record another eight songs for Destiny, including remakes of Dana Glover's 2002 album cut "A Reason," and "Make a Change", a partially re-written version of L5's 2003 single "Reste Encore."^[1] In the end, thirteen out of a total of sixteen tracks made it to the final tracklisting.

Although the album was tentatively titled Comeback, Reunion, Chapter Four and New Beginning at one time or another, the longplayer was eventually named after a song called "Destiny Calls."^[2] The record failed to make the cut on the final tracklisting, but widely served as a metaphor for the band's "emotional relation" to the band:^[2] "For us, it really was a fateful encounter," Nadja Benaissa told in an interview with Netzeitung, "and since the day we went to the [Popstars] audition our whole live has changed."^[2]

Destiny received a mixed reception from music critics, with most professional reviewers praising the quartet for their "unmistakable singing pleasure" and "strong vocal performance" on the album,^[3] also citing the band's modern understanding of "solid pop music."^[4] Others called the album a "well-produced comeback missing a big bang,"^[5] with laut.de and CDStarts especially critizising the abundance of fillers on Destiny^[3] and the songwriters' tendency for semi-plagiarism on songs like "Been Here Before" and "Make a Change."^[4] Released on April 13, 2007, Destiny debuted at number 4 in Germany, number 14 in Austria and number 22 in Switzerland, making it the band's first regular studio album release not to reach the top position on the German Media Control Charts and the top 10 in Austria and Switzerland respectively. As of June 2007, the album has sold about 30,000 copies domestically, also making it the No Angels' lowest selling album to date.^[6]

Although scheduled to spawn a fourth single,^[7] the album produced three singles only: Redfly-penned "Goodbye to Yesterday", the album's lead single and the band's first release after a three years absence, reached number 4 in Germany, and peaked within the top 20 in Switzerland and Lithuania and the top 30 in Austria. By contrast, follow-up "Maybe," a Trine Rein cover, and a third single, consisting of "Amaze Me" and a previously unreleased cover of Womack & Womack's "Teardrops," both saw moderate impact on the charts with peak position of numbers 36 and 62 in Germany and Austria, and number 25 respectively, becoming the band's lowest-charting singles to date. Hence, plans for a Special Winter Edition of the album never materialized.^[8]

• "Ain't Gonna Look the Other Way" (written by Tracy Ackerman, Anders Bagge, Per Åström) (appears as a b-side on the "Amaze Me" single) ^[9]
• "Destiny Calls" ^[2]
• "Secret's Out" (written by Celetia Martin, Mats Berntoft, Magnus Wallbert) (appears as a b-side on the "Maybe" single) ^[10]