Take Your Chance

Take Your Chance is the debut studio album by German recording artist Alexander Klaws. It was released by Sony BMG on Hansa Records on 8 April 2003 in German-speaking Europe, following Klaws's victory on the debut season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German spin-off from the British show Pop Idol, in 2003. Composition and production were largely overseen by musiican Dieter Bohlen, a judge on the show. In addition to Bohlen's original material, the album includes a cover of American singer Michael Sembello's "Maniac", which Klaws had performed on DSDS. Critical reception to Take Your Chance was largely negative, with reviewers describing it as formulaic, unoriginal, and heavily dominated by Bohlen. Despite this, the album was commercially successful, debuting at number one in Germany, reaching the top five in Austria and the top 20 in Switzerland, and earning Gold certifications in both Germany and Switzerland. It produced two singles: "Take Me Tonight" topped the charts in Germany and Switzerland, became the second best-selling single of 2003 in Germany, and received multiple certifications, while "Stay with Me" reached the top ten in Germany. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Yo...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)