| Ready for Romance | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Modern Talking |
| Cover: | Readyforromancealbum.jpg |
| Recorded: | November 1985 – February 1986 |
| Studio: | Studio 33 (Hamburg) |
| Genre: | Euro disco |
| Label: | Hansa |
| Producer: | Dieter Bohlen |
| Prev Title: | Let's Talk About Love |
| Prev Year: | 1985 |
| Next Title: | In the Middle of Nowhere |
| Next Year: | 1986 |
Ready for Romance is the third studio album by German duo Modern Talking, released on 26 May 1986 by Hansa Records. The album spent five consecutive weeks at the top of the German chart and was eventually certified platinum by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) for shipments in excess of 710,000 copies in Germany. It also topped the charts in Austria and Switzerland, while reaching the top 10 in Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden. It peaked at number 76 on the UK Albums Chart, becoming the band's only album to chart in the United Kingdom.[1]
Two singles were released from Ready for Romance, "Brother Louie" and "Atlantis Is Calling (S.O.S. for Love)", both of which reached number one in Germany and charted within the top five in Austria, Sweden and Switzerland - Brother Louie also reached number 4 in the UK.[2] [3]
| Peak position | |
| European Albums (Music & Media)[4] | 11 |
|---|---|
| Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[5] | 3 |
| French Albums (IFOP)[6] | 19 |
| Icelandic Albums (Tónlist)[7] | 6 |
| Spanish Albums (AFYVE)[8] | 4 |
| Position | ||
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[9] | 8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[10] | 45 | |
| European Albums (Music & Media)[11] | 32 | |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[12] | 13 | |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[13] | 20 |