''Don't Stop the Music'' is the third album of the

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. It is the first album by the group to feature vocals from then new member Janet Leon, who replaced founding member and lead singer Faye Hamlin. In fact, many of the album's tracks are believed to have been originally recorded with Hamlin, as a year later an alternative version of Another Love Story was released featuring her vocals. The album was released on 9 March 2004. This was the group's least successful album and did not chart on the ''Billboard'' 200.

Track listing

* There are several cover versions of previously recorded songs. The title track was originally recorded and released as a single by

singer

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. "Every Little Step" was originally a track on

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's 1988 album ''

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''. "Girls Can Too" is a reworked and reworded version of

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's "Bye Bye" (later covered by

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as "Bye Bye Boy"). "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", which also appeared on '' Replay'' featuring the vocals of former member Faye Hamlin, was originally performed by

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and

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. * "It's the Hard Knock Life" was recorded two separate times – once with departing member Hamlin, and once with incoming member

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. Faye appeared in the video version, shot on behalf of the 20th Anniversary DVD release of '' Annie''. * Two music videos for "everGirl" were shot. The first was a more conventional video shot in a Swedish classroom, and the second was a tour diary/performance video filmed in a New York mall. * In 2006, the song "Another Love Story" was featured in ''

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, this song was originally recorded with departing member Faye Hamlin, it's rumored to have been an unreleased song from the group's second album Replay.

Personnel

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– lead vocals *

– lead vocals * Rosie Munter – backing vocals * Anna Sundstrand – backing vocals

References

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