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. It was released on 17 September 2007 and has been certified 3 times platinum in the United Kingdom since its release. It contains the hit singles "

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" as well as their song " It's Not About You", which was only released as a limited-copy EP in June 2007. The album had a two-week run as the UK Album Chart 'Number 1 album' on 20 January 2008 after taking over from

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's debut album '' This Is The Life''. It was replaced on 3 February 2008 by

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's debut album '' 19''.

Singles

*" It's Not About You" was released as the first single on 25 June 2007. It peaked at #17 on the

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" was released as the second single on 27 August 2007. It peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart as the most successful single on the album. *"

" was released as the third single on 17 December 2007. It peaked at #8 on the UK Singles Chart. *"

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" was released as the fourth single on 7 April 2008. It peaked at #10 on the UK Singles Chart. *" I Wish I Was James Bond" was released as the fifth single on 7 November 2008. It peaked at #21 on the UK Singles Chart. *" Keep on Walking" was originally set for release as the fifth single, yet instead it was released as a promotional single on 9 March 2009. It peaked at #78 on the UK Singles Chart.

Track listing

Bonus tracks

Chart performance

When it was first released in September 2007, ''Scouting for Girls'' debuted at No.12. The next week it fell down 8 places and then fell out of the top 40 in October 2007. It started to climb back up the chart in January 2008 until it reached its new peak of No.4 on 13 January. The next week it climbed to No.1 after 18 weeks of falling and climbing then it remained there for two weeks. On 28 December 2008, it was announced as the 10th biggest selling album of 2008 after 60 weeks on the chart. The album has sold 952,303 copies as of October 2015.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Personnel

;Performance credits *

Vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

: Greg Churchouse, Peter Ellard, Roy Stride *

Guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

: Greg Churchouse, Roy Stride * Bass: Greg Churchouse *

Percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

: Peter Ellard *

Piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

: Roy Stride *

Castanets Castanets, also known as ''clackers'' or ''palillos'', are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Spanish, Kalo, Moorish, Ottoman, Italian, Sephardic, Swiss, and Portuguese music. In ancient Greece and ancient Rome there was a similar ...

: Randy Blong *

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: Martin Owen *

Trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

: James McMillan *

Whistling Whistling without the use of an artificial whistle is achieved by creating a small opening with one's lips, usually after applying moisture (licking one's lips or placing water upon them) and then blowing or sucking air through the space. The a ...

: Otis Spooge ;Technical credits *

Engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad rang ...

: Julian Wilmott, Andy Green *

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: Andy Green * Programming: Andy Green * Mixing: Andy Green * Mastering: Ted Jenson

References

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