Now... Us!

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox album | name = Now... Us! | type = Album | artist = No Angels | cover = No-angels-now-us.jpg | alt = | released = 24 June 2002 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = {{Duration|m=47|s=18}} | label = *Cheyenne *Poyldor | producer = *Tim Brettschneider *Thorsten Brötzmann *D. Fact *Fahrenheit & Kelvin *Frank Hellum *Frank Lio *Leslie Mándoki *Mousse T. *Nick Nice *N-Dee *Peter Ries *Royal Garden Sound *Pontus Söderqvist *Sandi Schumann *Syndicate *Daniel Troha *Ronny Wikmark | prev_title = Elle'ments | prev_year = 2001 | next_title = When the Angels Swing | next_year = 2002 | misc = {{Singles | name = Now ... Us! | type = studio | single1 = Something About Us | single1date = 6 May 2002 | single2 = Still in Love with You | single2date = 12 August 2002 | single3 = Let's Go to Bed | single3date = 4 November 2002 | single4 = All Cried Out | single4date = 2 December 2002 }} }}

'''''Now... Us!''''' is the second studio album by German girl group No Angels. It was released by Polydor and Cheyenne Records on June 24, 2002, in German-speaking Europe. Recorded after the release of the band's majorly successful debut album ''Elle'ments'' (2001), the group consulted work by frequent collaborators Thorsten Brötzmann, Peter Ries, and Leslie Mándoki as well as international songwriters and producers such as Anders Bagge, Figge Boström, Dennis Dowlut, Mousse T., Pontus Söderqvist, and Quiz & Larossi, while taking a wider role in contributing own lyrics and melodies to the album.

Upon its release, ''Now... Us!'' received a mixed reception from music critics, many of whom praised band for their vocal performances and the inclusion of self-penned solo songs but found the material too generic and cliché-addled. Commercially, it became No Angels's second album to debut atop the German Albums Chart and was eventually certified double platinum by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI), finishing twelfth on the national year-end chart in 2002. ''Now... Us!'' also opened at number two and number four in Austria and Switzerland, where it reached gold status respectively.

The album spawned three singles, including the band's third non-consecutive number-one "Something About Us", summer-lite "Still in Love with You" and funk-influenced "Let's Go to Bed", A pop version of its fourth single, the Alison Moyet cover "All Cried Out", appeared on a ''Special Winter Edition'' reissue of the album, released in November 2002. To promote ''Now... Us!'', No Angels embarked on the Four Seasons Tour, covering Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, in fall 2002. It would remain the group's final album as a quintet after Jessica Wahls's departure in 2003 and their reformation as a quartet in 2007.

==Background== In 2000, No Angels beat 4,500 other hopefuls in the German version of the RTL II talent show ''Popstars''. Recruited to join a girl pop band, the quintet signed a recording deal with Polydor–Zeitgeist and Cheyenne Records and became overnight hits, with their debut single "Daylight in Your Eyes" emerging as the biggest-selling single of the year 2001 in Germany.<ref name="time">{{cite web|first=Tristana|last=Moore|title=In Germany, No Angels Star Faces HIV Charges|work=Time|url=http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1891838,00.html|date=16 April 2009|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> For the production of their English language parent album, Cheyenne consulted a small group of German-based musicians to work on ''Elle'ments'', including Thorsten Brötzmann, Peter Ries, Leslie Mándoki, and Peter Plate.<ref name=laut/> Selecting songs from the Universal Music Publishing Group catalogue, the producers would either take over production duties from Scandinavian musicians or submit self-written songs for recording.<ref name="hrm">{{cite web|first=Marika|last=Schaertl|title=Holger, der Engel-Macher|date=19 February 2001|work=Focus|url=http://www.focus.de/panorama/boulevard/pop-holger-der-engel-macher_aid_189253.html|access-date=26 April 2009|language=German|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226090239/http://www.focus.de/panorama/boulevard/pop-holger-der-engel-macher_aid_189253.html|archive-date=26 February 2012}}</ref>

A pop record with different genres such as Europop, teen pop, electro, and dance, ''Elle'ments'' combined elements from pop rock, drum and bass, and contemporary R&B,<ref name=laut>{{cite web|last=Dobler |first=Eberhard|url=https://www.laut.de/No-Angels/Alben/Ellements-1181 |title= Keine Frage, wir befinden uns auf internationalem Pop-Niveau|work=laut.de |date=12 March 2001 |access-date=16 April 2015}}</ref> but while it became one of the fastest-selling German albums in music history,<ref>{{Cite book|first1=Peter|last1=Feierabend|first2=Karsten|last2=Zang|title=DuMont Bildband 65 Jahre Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Eine Zeitreise in Bildern|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZhUAgAAQBAJ&q=%22NO+ANGELS%22+ELLE%27MENTS&pg=PA139|publisher=DuMont |date=1 January 2013 |isbn=9783770189427|access-date=3 December 2016}}</ref> No Angels still struggled with the clichés and prejudices generally associated with their manufactured band image, which made them appear as externally controlled reality TV products rather than ambitious artists.<ref name="VP">{{cite web|title=Work: Songs|work=VanessaPetruo.tv|url=http://www.vanessapetruo.tv/work/songs.php|access-date=28 July 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006051340/http://www.vanessapetruo.tv/work/songs.php|archive-date=6 October 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Trennungsgerüchte über No Angels|url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/trennungsgeruechte-ueber-no-angels-natuerlich-sind-auch-traenen-geflossen-a-264692.html|website=Der Spiegel |date=7 September 2003|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> Frustrated by both the public perception and the group's A&R-dominated musical development, band member Vanessa Petruo asked for a release from her contract after her first year with the band,<ref name="welt">{{Cite news|first=Jessica|last=Schulte am Hülse |title=Popstar sein ist ein Pakt mit dem Teufel|url=https://www.welt.de/regionales/berlin/article1063875/Popstar-sein-ist-ein-Pakt-mit-dem-Teufel.html|newspaper=Die Welt |date=29 July 2007|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> but had her mind changed when Cheyenne Records decided on supporting her wish for more creative control and thus offered the band to contribute own songs to their next album.<ref name="welt"/>

== Production == In February 2002, after a short break from public, No Angels began work on their second album in Munich and Hamburg.<ref name="autchart">{{cite web|title=''Now... Us!''|work=Austriancharts|url=http://www.austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=No+Angels&titel=Now+%2E%2E%2E+Us&cat=a|access-date=1 June 2007}}</ref> Complying their wishes to take a bigger in the production of their sophomore effort, Cheyenne Records arranged for them to reteam with Thorsten Brötzmann, Peter Ries, and Leslie Mándoki, all of whom had contributed to their debut album ''Elle'ments'', to work on new songs.<ref name="autchart"/> Brötzmann and his co-producer Joachim "Jeo" Mezei oversaw production on the Anders Bagge-penned R&B song "Lovestory" as well as "Now That We Found Love", one of five solo songs on the album. Lead sung by band member Vanessa Petruo, it chronicles a woman's desire to love-making with her new lover.<ref name="autchart"/> Petruo also collaborated with the duo and songwriter Alex Geringas on the uptempo song "Something About Us" which blends contemporary R&B and dance-pop with soft Latin-pop and was conceived as response to what the band felt was intense and sometimes unfair and inaccurate media criticism at the time, predominantly resulting from the clichés and prejudices generally associated with their manufactured band image.<ref name="VP"/>

Ries produced "Three Words", a Quiz & Larossi-written rock pop-tinged track that was later included on the album's reissue, and worked with Sandy Mölling on her solo song "Say Goodbye", an R&B-flavored uptempo song which she co-wrote over a demo track by British singer Celetia Martin.<ref name="autchart"/> Mándoki contributed the uplifting mid-tempo track "Push Me to the Limit" and worked with Wahls on her solo song "Shield Against My Sorrow", a downtempo ode to a loved one.<ref name="autchart"/> "Atlantis", his production of No Angels's cover version of the same-titled 1968 song, which the band had re-recorded with original singer Donovan for the closing credits of the Walt Disney Feature Animation picture ''Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' (2001), was also included on the track listing.<ref name="autchart"/> Lucy Diakovska collaborated with producers Oliver Fahrenheit and Christian Kelvin on her solo song "Stay", a piano-driven ballad on which she demands her lover to stay for another night with her;<ref name="autchart"/> while Nadja Benaissa teamed with Daniel Troha on "Come Back", another piano ballad that has her asking for a loved one to return.<ref name="autchart"/>

Apart from their previous collaborators, Polydor also consulted Mousse T and frequent collaborators Oliver Dommaschk and Marco Quast from production duo Royal Garden Sound to work with the band. Known for his mixture of the house and funk genres, Mousse reteamed with Errol Rennalls, his co-writer on the hit singles "Horny '98" (1998) and "Sex Bomb" (2000), on "Let's Go to Bed", a mid-paced pop song that contains heavy elements of psychedelic soul and references to a celebration of sexual lust and conquest.<ref>{{cite web|title=Polydor schickt zweites No Angels-Album ins Rennen|url=http://www.mediabiz.de/musik/news/mousse-t-und-rennalls-besiegeln-zusammenarbeit-mit-umpg/123335|publisher=Mediabiz|work=MusikWoche|date=14 June 2002 |access-date=30 June 2020|language=German|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004222702/http://www.mediabiz.de/musik/news/mousse-t-und-rennalls-besiegeln-zusammenarbeit-mit-umpg/123335|archive-date=4 October 2013}}</ref> Dommaschk and Quast contributed album opener "Anchor Your Love" a beat- and guitar-heavy uptempo pop song which they co-wrote with Kaidy-Ann Morgan and that has the protagonist wondering about how she can retains a man's love.<ref name="autchart"/> Swedish producers Pontus Söderqvist and Nick Nice from songwriting collective LaCarr produced "Still in Love with You", a Latin pop ballad which has the female protagonist thinking deeply over her relationship with her love interest from whom she parted, and "Autumn Breeze", penned by the Australian band Disco Montego, consisting of the Dowlut brothers Dennis and Darren.<ref name="autchart"/>

== Release and reception == {{Music ratings |rev1 = ''CDStarts'' |rev1score = 2/10<ref name="twelve"/> |rev2 = ''laut.de'' |rev2score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="eleven"/> }} Media reception for ''Now... Us!'' was generally mixed. Although most professional reviewers praised the band for the inclusion of self-written material and a "less conventional" and more mature pop sound with "major influences of contemporary R&B and soul,"<ref name="eleven">{{cite web|first=Joachim|last=Gauger|title=Es ist die Stunde der Wahrheit für Vanessa, Sandy, Nadja, Jessica und Lucy|website=laut.de|publisher=Laut AG|url=https://www.laut.de/No-Angels/Alben/Now...-Us!-1180|access-date=20 December 2023|language=German}}</ref> ''laut.de'' editor Joachim Gauger declared the album as "teen-pop" on "average level,"<ref name="eleven"/> He felt that the self-composed lyrics "always seem wooden and clichéd and don't really touch the listener," but complimented the other songs on ''Now... Us!'' which he considered at the level of American pop productions.<ref name="eleven"/> Matthias Eisen from ''CDStarts'' cited the album "dissembling [...] cheesy and clichéd," sharply criticizing the cover songs on ''Now... Us!''.<ref name="twelve">{{cite web|first=Matthias|last=Eisen|title=''Now... Us!'' review|work=CDstarts|publisher=CDstarts.de GbR |url=http://www.cdstarts.de/kritiken/85064-No-Angels-Now...-Us%2521.html|access-date=15 February 2007|language=German|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718212645/https://www.cdstarts.de/kritiken/85064-No-Angels-Now...-Us!.html|archive-date=18 July 2011}}</ref> ''MusikWoche'' found that the album was "clearly superior to the songs of their debut album. With ''Now ... Us!'', No Angels take a promising first step on the way to the seriously increasing pop act, which still has a lot to expect for the girls' future careers."<ref name="mediabiz">{{cite web|title=Kritik|website=mediabiz.de|url=http://www.mediabiz.de/musik/firmen/programm/no-angels-now-us/201781|access-date=7 July 2020|language=German}}</ref>

Upon its release, ''Now... Us!'' became the band's second consecutive studio album to top the German Albums Chart,<ref name="GER"/> while also reaching number two and number four on the Austrian and Swiss Albums Charts, respectively.<ref name="AUS"/><ref name="SWI"/> After spending 33 weeks inside the Offizielle Top 100, it was ranked twelfth on the German year-end chart and awarded platinum by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI).<ref>{{cite web|title=Album-Charts des Jahres 2002 |work=FOCUS Online |url=http://www.focus.de/D/DF/DFM/DFM01/DFM01A/DFM01AC/dfm01ac.htm?musik=album |access-date=1 November 2008 |language=German |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520090041/http://www.focus.de/D/DF/DFM/DFM01/DFM01A/DFM01AC/dfm01ac.htm?musik=album |archive-date=20 May 2011 }}</ref> Although "2 Get Over U" was planned to be released a special Christmas single with UK popstars Hear'Say at times,<ref name="duett">{{cite web | title=Duett der "Popstars"|website=Netzeitung| url=http://www.netzeitung.de/entertainment/people/157024.html| access-date=4 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091708/http://www.netzeitung.de/entertainment/people/157024.html|archive-date=29 September 2007}}</ref> it was eventually shelved following the moderate success of their single "Pure and Simple" (2001) throughout German-speaking Europe.<ref name="Hear'Say">{{cite web|title=Hear'Say Ditch X'Mas Duet |work=MTV Asia News |url=http://www.mtvasia.com/News/200111/06006338.html |access-date=4 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083416/http://www.mtvasia.com/News/200111/06006338.html |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was replaced by lead single "Something about Us" and its B-side "Like Ice in the Sunshine."<ref name="autchart"/> "Something about Us" became the band's third non-consecutive number-one hit on the German and Austrian Singles Chart within a period of 16 months, and reached a peak position of 11 on the Swiss Singles Chart.<ref name="autchart"/> Second single, "Still in Love with You", reached the top 5 in Germany and Austria. Third single "Let's Go to Bed" ended the run of No Angels' consecutive top ten songs in Germany, and failed to chart on the Swiss Hitparade. A previously unreleased fourth single, the Alison Moyet cover "All Cried Out" was included on the November 2002 released ''Special Winter Edition'' reissue of the album.<ref name="autchart"/>

== Track listing == {{track listing | headline = ''Now ... Us!'' {{nobold|– Standard edition}} | extra_column = Producer(s) | total_length = 47:18

| title1 = Anchor Your Love | writer1 = {{hlist|Oliver Dommaschk|Marco Quast|Kaidy-Ann Morgan}} | extra1 = Royal Garden Sound | length1 = 3:38

| title2 = Something About Us | writer2 = {{hlist|Vanessa Petruo|Thorsten Brötzmann|Alexander Geringas}} | extra2 = {{hlist|Brötzmann|Jeo{{ref|A|[A]}}}} | length2 = 3:26

| title3 = Still in Love with You | writer3 = {{hlist|Figge Boström|Johan Lindman}} | extra3 = {{hlist|Pontus Söderqvist|Nick Nice}} | length3 = 3:31

| title4 = Push Me to the Limit | writer4 = {{hlist|Leslie Mándoki|Laszlo Bencker}} | extra4 = Mándoki | length4 = 3:23

| title5 = Say Goodbye | writer5 = {{hlist|Sandy Mölling|Celetia Martin|Velroy Baily|Ian Pitter}} | extra5 = Peter Ries | length5 = 3:37

| title6 = Like Ice in the Sunshine | writer6 = {{hlist|Holger Julian Copp|Hanno Harders}} | extra6 = {{hlist|N-Dee|Frank Lio|D. Fact}} | length6 = 2:57

| title7 = Lovestory | writer7 = {{hlist|Reed Vertenley|Anders Bagge|Par Åström}} | extra7 = {{hlist|Brötzmann|Jeo{{ref|A|[A]}}}} | length7 = 3:35

| title8 = Shield Against My Sorrow | writer8 = {{hlist|Jessica Wahls|Nik Hafemann|Mándoki|Bencker}} | extra8 = Mándoki | length8 = 3:29

| title9 = Autumn Breeze | writer9 = D. Dowlut | extra9 = {{hlist|Söderqvist|Nice}} | length9 = 3:32

| title10 = Now That We Found Love | writer10 = {{hlist|Ulrich Wehner|Brötzmann}} | extra10 = Brötzmann | length10 = 3:34

| title11 = Stay | writer11 = {{hlist|Lucy Diakovska|Christian Geller}} | extra11 = {{hlist|Oliver Fahrenheit|Christian Kelvin}} | length11 = 4:09

| title12 = Let's Go to Bed | writer12 = {{hlist|Mousse T.|Errol Rennalls}} | extra12 = Mousse T. | length12 = 3:32

| title13 = 2 Get Over U | writer13 = {{hlist|Sandi Schumann|Tim Brettschneider|Alan Glass}} | extra13 = {{hlist|Frank Hellum|Ronny Wikmark}} | length13 = 3:24

| title14 = Lost in You | writer14 = {{hlist|Schumann|Brettschneider|Glass}} | extra14 = {{hlist|Schumann|Brettschneider}} | length14 = 3:28

| title15 = Come Back | writer15 = {{hlist|Nadja Benaissa|Daniel Troha|Cal Abate}} | extra15 = Troha | length15 = 4:02

| title16 = Atlantis 2002 | note16 = with Donovan | writer16 = {{hlist|Donovan Leitch}} | extra16 = Mándoki | length16 = 4:01 }} {{track listing | headline = ''Now ... Us!'' {{nobold|– Special Winter Edition}} | extra_column = Producer(s) | total_length = 56:58

| title1 = All Cried Out | note1 = Pop Version | writer1 = {{hlist|Steve Jolley|Alison Moyet|Tony Swain}} | extra1 = {{hlist|Hafemann|Perky Park}} | length1 = 3:38

| title2 = Still in Love with You | note2 = Single Version | writer2 = {{hlist|Boström|Lindman}} | extra2 = {{hlist|Söderqvist|Nice}} | length2 = 3:31

| title3 = Something About Us | note3 = Latin Radio Edit | writer3 = {{hlist|Petruo|Brötzmann|Geringas}} | extra3 = {{hlist|Brötzmann|Jeo{{ref|A|[A]}}}} | length3 = 3:26

| title4 = Three Words | writer4 = {{hlist|Andreas Romdhane|Josef Larossi}} | extra4 = Ries | length4 = 3:48

| title5 = Let's Go to Bed | note5 = Single Edit | writer5 = {{hlist|Mousse T.|Rennalls}} | extra5 = Mousse T. | length5 = 3:32

| title6 = Say Goodbye | writer6 = {{hlist|Mölling|Martin|Baily|Pitter}} | extra6 = Ries | length6 = 3:37

| title7 = Lovestory | writer7 = {{hlist|Vertenley|Bagge|Åström}} | extra7 = {{hlist|Brötzmann|Jeo{{ref|A|[A]}}}} | length7 = 3:35

| title8 = Stay | writer8 = {{hlist|Diakovska|Geller}} | extra8 = {{hlist|Fahrenheit|Kelvin}} | length8 = 4:09

| title9 = Autumn Breeze | writer9 = Dowlut | extra9 = {{hlist|Söderqvist|Nice}} | length9 = 3:32

| title10 = 2 Get Over U | writer10 = {{hlist|Schumann|Brettschneider|Glass}} | extra10 = {{hlist|Hellum|Wikmark}} | length10 = 3:24

| title11 = Shield Against My Sorrow | writer11 = {{hlist|Wahls|Hafemann|Mándoki|Bencker}} | extra11 = Mándoki | length11 = 3:29

| title12 = Anchor Your Love | writer12 = {{hlist|Dommaschk|Quast|Morgan}} | extra12 = Royal Garden Sound | length12 = 3:38

| title13 = Now That We Found Love | writer13 = {{hlist|Wehner|Brötzmann}} | extra13 = Brötzmann | length13 = 3:34

| title14 = Like Ice in the Sunshine | writer14 = {{hlist|Copp|Harders}} | extra14 = {{hlist|N-Dee|Frank Lio|D. Fact}} | length14 = 2:57

| title15 = Come Back | writer15 = {{hlist|Benaissa|Troha|Abate}} | extra15 = Troha | length15 = 4:02

| title16 = Daylight in Your Eyes | note16 = Big Band Version | writer16 = {{hlist|Tony Bruno|Tommy Byrne}} | extra16 = Till Brönner | length16 = 3:44 }} '''Notes''' * ^{{{note|A|[A]}}} denotes co-producer

== Credits and personnel == Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''Now... Us!''.<ref name=linernotes>{{cite AV media notes|title=Now ... Us!|others=No Angels|year=2002|publisher=Polydor Records}}</ref>

'''Performers and musicians''' {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} *Curly Ausmer – guitar *Thorsten Brötzmann – keyboards, guitar *Laszlo Benker – various *Jewgeni Birkhoff – electric piano *Bela "B. La" Brauckmann – percussion *Sven Bünger – acoustic guitar *James Caldwell – backing vocalist *Julian Feifel – various *Linda Freeland – backing vocalist *Thorsten Fuchs – guitar *Inez Haynes – backing vocalist *Stravos Iannou – acoustic guitar *Fan Fan La Tulip – guitar *Manfred Honetschläger – conductor {{col-2}} *Sami Khatib – various *Michael Knauer – keyboards *George Kopecsni – various *Peter Koobs – guitar *Franca Morgano – backing vocalist *Johan Lindman – guitar *S.L.O. Warschau – strings *Ossi Schalle – various *Ingo Schröder – rhythm guitar *Berni Schwarz – various *Daniel Throa – backing vocalist, keyboard, percussion, guitar *Peter Weihe – guitar *Peter Wölpl – various *Stephan Zeh – various {{col-end}}

'''Technical and artwork''' {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} *Peter Boström – mixing engineer *Tim Brettschneider – producer *Thorsten Brötzmann – producer, programming *Dirk Decker – recording engineer *Fahrenheit & Kelvin – producer *Pit Floss – mixing engineer *Nik Hafemann – producer, recording supervisor *Frank Hellum – producer *Sven Jacobsen – photography *Felix Knöchel – engineer *Dirk Kurock – recording engineer *Martin Langer – drum programming *Frank Lio – producer *Andy "N-Dee" Lutschounig *Leslie Mándoki – producer *Joachim "Jeo" Mezei – co-producer, programming {{col-2}} *Mousse T. – engineer, producer *Nick Nice – mixing engineer, producer, programming *Perky Park – producer *Ronald Rensberg – artwork *Peter Ries – producer *Royal Garden Sound – producer *Pontus Söderqvist – producer, programming *Sandi "S." Schumann – producer *Spok – engineer *Mike "Spike" Streefkerk – mixing engineer *Syndicate – producer *Daniel Troha – producer *Wolfgang "D. Fact" von Webenau – producer *Ronny Wikmark – producer *Benjamin Wolf – photography *Stephan Zeh – mixing engineer {{col-end}}

== Leftover tracks == * "Since I Found You" <small>(written by Vanessa Petruo, Thorsten Brötzmann, Alexander Geringas)</small> (appeared on the ''Four Seasons Tour'' setlist)<ref name="B-side">{{cite web|title=Since I Found You|work=GEMA Search|url=https://mgonline.gema.de/werke/detail.do?title=SINCE+I+FOUND+YOU&dbkey=2774764|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110719031636/https://mgonline.gema.de/werke/detail.do?title=SINCE+I+FOUND+YOU&dbkey=2774764|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 July 2011|access-date=6 October 2007}}</ref>

== Charts == {{col-begin}} {{col-2}}

===Weekly charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |+ Weekly chart performance for ''Now... Us!'' |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2002) ! scope="col"| Peak<br/>position |- {{album chart|Austria|2|artist=No Angels|album=Now... Us! |rowheader=true|refname="AUS"}} |- !scope="row" align="left"|European Top 100 Albums (''Billboard'')<ref name="bb">{{cite magazine|title=Oasis Has The Right ''Chemistry'' At No. 1|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Rovi Corporation|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/75180/oasis-has-the-right-chemistry-at-no-1|date=8 July 2002|access-date=11 January 2008}}</ref> |align="center"|7 |- {{album chart|Germany|id=4120|1|artist=No Angels|album=Now... Us! |rowheader=true|refname="GER"}} |- {{album chart|Hungary|65|artist=No Angels|album=Now... Us! |year=2002|week=26|rowheader=true|refname="HUN"}} |- {{album chart|Switzerland|4|artist=No Angels|album=Now... Us! |rowheader=true|refname="SWI"}} |} {{col-2}}

===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |+ Year-end chart performance for ''Now... Us!'' |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2002) ! scope="col"| Position |- !scope="row" align="left"|Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://austriancharts.at/year.asp?cat=a&id=2002|title=Jahreshitparade Alben 2002|publisher=Austriancharts.com. Hung Medien|access-date=22 October 2015}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|29 |- !scope="row" align="left"|German Albums (Official Top 100)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album-jahr/for-date-2002|title=Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts (2002)|publisher=Offiziellecharts.de|access-date=22 November 2015}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|12 |- !scope="row" align="left"|Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hitparade.ch/charts/jahreshitparade/2002|title=Jahrescharts 2002|publisher=Swisscharts.com. Hung Medien|access-date=10 October 2015}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|62 |} {{col-end}}

== Certifications == {{certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for ''Now... Us!''}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=Austria|type=album|relyear=2002|relmonth=06|certmonth=09|certyear=2002|award=Gold|artist=No Angels|title=Now ... Us!|date=4 September 2002|access-date=20 December 2023}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=Switzerland|type=album|title=Angels with Dirty Faces|artist=Sugababes|award=Gold|relyear=2002}} {{Certification Table Bottom}}

== Release history == {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+ ''Now... Us!'' release history |- ! scope="col"| Region ! scope="col"| Date ! scope="col"| Edition(s) ! scope="col"| Format ! scope="col"| Label |- ! scope="row"| Austria |rowspan="3"|24 June 2002 | rowspan="3" | {{Flatlist | * Standard }} |rowspan="6"| {{hlist|Digital download|CD}} |rowspan="6"|{{hlist|Cheyenne|Polydor}} |- ! scope="row"| Germany |- ! scope="row"| Switzerland |- ! scope="row"| Austria |rowspan="3"|18 November 2002 | rowspan="3" | {{Flatlist | * Special winter }} |- ! scope="row"| Germany |- ! scope="row"| Switzerland |}

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