Whole Again

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"Whole Again"

Single by Atomic Kitten
from the album Right Now
B-side(s)	"Locomotion"
Released	January 29, 2001
Format	CD
Recorded	Motor Museum Studios
Genre	Pop
Length	3:03
Label	Virgin Records
Producer(s)	Engine
Chart positions
#1 (UK, NL, DE)
Atomic Kitten UK/Japan/Asian singles chronology
"Follow Me" (2000)	"Whole Again" (2001)	"Eternal Flame" (2001)
Atomic Kitten Australian singles chronology
	"Whole Again" (2001)	"Right Now"/"Eternal Flame (song)" (2001)

Whole Again was the fifth single for Atomic Kitten, and the first single in Europe, Germany, Australia, and Ireland. This single was given a release from Virgin Records, explaning in November 2000 that Atomic Kitten were to be dropped. However they persuaded Innocent Records to release one more single. ^[1] Atomic Kitten scored their first number one hit in the UK in 2001 with "Whole Again".

The song and video for "Whole Again" originally featured Kerry Katona. However she left the group several days prior to the number-one position because of her pregnancy. ^[2] The video was remade when Jenny Frost was added to the line-up as a replacement, with Frost miming to Katona's vocals.

The single opened with a first week's sale of 69,286 copied ^[3] and the success of "Whole Again" with 934,600 copies ^[4] sold in the United Kingdom was such that it was decided to remaster and rerelease the album which went straight to number one on its second appearance in the chart and to release "Eternal Flame", which was not featured on the original album, as a single as well. "Whole Again" has become the longest stay since Westlife at New Year in 1999/2000 and also the 4th biggest selling single of 2000 and the only single which increased the weekly sales during each week on number 1.Whole again entered number 1 in 19 countries. Whole Again is 4th best selling girl group single of all time and best-selling girl group single of the decade.

Thusfar Atomic Kitten was only released in the United Kingdom and Asia, but it was decided to release the single globally and to release the album in Europe and Australia as well. In Germany "Whole Again" secured a number one position for six consequetive weeks and another single for the album, "You Are", was released for the audiences in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

The track appeared on the edition of the group's second album Feels So Good released in continental Europe and Asia, with Katona's spoken-word vocals in the final verse dubbed out and replaced with new ones by Frost. The group asked UK radio stations to play this mix instead of the original, but none complied.

Whilst on massive sales, the question always was "Who is the Kitten featured in it, Kerry or Jenny?" and the answer was Kerry Katona, for she was on the front covers, and she was on all the tracks.

According to an interview shown on MTV UK & Ireland's Bytesize, while miming on television or at events, Atomic Kitten usually replace the lyrics "You can make me whole again" with "You got the wrong hole again" or "You can lick my hole again", references to sexual acts.

1 Tracklist
2 Song information
3 Charts
4 Covers
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Tracklist

CD 1
1.	"Whole Again"	3.03
2.	"Holiday"	3.13
3.	"Whole Again" (Whirlwind mix)	3.05
CD 2
1.	"Whole Again"	3.03
2.	"Whole Again" (Original version)	3:19
3.	"Locomotion"	3:32

[edit] Song information

Lyrics and Music	Bill Padley, Stuart Kershaw, Andy McCluskey and Jeremy Godfrey
Producer	Engine/Padley & Godfrey
Vocals initial release	Natasha Hamilton, Liz McClarnon and Kerry Katona
Vocals 2002 rerelease	Natasha Hamilton, Liz McClarnon and Jenny Frost
Backing vocals	Angie Giles, Bill Padley
Keyboards and programming	Stuart Kershaw, Andy McCluskey, Bill Padley and Jeremy Godfrey

[edit] Charts

Country	Date	Position	Certification	Sales
United Kingdom	February 2001	#1 (4 weeks)	Platinum ^[5]	934,600 ^[4]
Germany	April 2001	#1 (6 weeks) ^[6]		200,000 in its first week.^{[citation needed]}
New Zealand	April 15, 2001	#1 (6 weeks) ^[7]	2x Platinum ^[8]	20,000
Austria	May 20, 2001	#1(4 weeks) ^[9]		unk
The Netherlands	April 2001	#1 ^[10]	Gold ^[11]	40,000
Republic of Ireland	February 1, 2001	#1 ^[12]		unk
Switzerland	March 6, 2001	#2 ^[13]	Gold ^[14]	20,000
Australia	June 3, 2001	#2 ^[15]	2x Platinum ^[16]	140,000
France	October 20, 2001	#21 ^[17]

Total sales in Worldwide: 1,294,600+

[edit] Covers

"Whole Again" was covered by The Sick Anchors and Chiara in 2002 and by No Secrets and Play in 2003.

[edit] References

^ BBC Atomic Kitten's perfect year. Accessed August 24, 2006
^ BBC McFadden and Katona tie knot. Accessed August 24, 2006
^ theofficialcharts.com "Whole Again" page. Accessed August 24, 2006
^ ^a ^b ChartWatch Atomic Kitten page. Last update: 12 October 2004
^ BPI.co.uk Certification "Whole Again" Accessed October 29, 2006
^ Infinity Charts German Top 20 - The Chart Of May 2001. Accessed: November 2, 2006
^ Charts.org.nz "Whole Again" page Accessed October 29, 2006
^ Rianz.org.nz Chart 2 September 2001 Accessed November 2, 2006
^ AustrianCharts.at "Whole Again" page. Accessed October 28, 2006
^ Top4000.nl Week 24, 2001
^ NVPI.nl Dutch certification database Accessed November 4, 2006
^ IrishCharts.ie Irish chart search (Accessed: November 2, 2006)
^ SwissCharts.com "Whole Again" page. Accessed: October 29, 2006
^ SwissCharts.com Certifications 2001 Accessed: October 29, 2006
^ Australian-Charts.com "Whole Again" page. Accessed: November 24, 2006
^ Aria.com.au Certifications 2001 Accessed: October 29, 2006
^ LesCharts.com "Whole Again" page Accessed: October 29, 2006