My Promise (released as No Mercy in North America) is the debut studio album by German pop band No Mercy. It was released on 21 October 1996 through MCI Records, BMG, and Arista Records. It is the band's most successful album and contains all of their international hits: "Missing", "Where Do You Go", "When I Die", "Please Don't Go" and "Kiss You All Over".
Critical reception Paul Verna from Billboard viewed the album as "an engaging set", noting that producer Frank Farian "keeps the set relentlessly bright and rife with fluttering flamenco guitars—save for the brooding ballad "When I Die", which allows singer Marty Cintron to fully flex his boyish, star-powered charm." He added, "Knee-deep with potential hits, the album's next logical single should be either the giddy rendition of Exile's "Kiss You All Over" or the spirited "Don't Make Me Live Without You"." British magazine Music Week wrote, "Lively Latin numbers and luscious love songs, most underpinned by flamenco guitar, are assembled for a pleasing debut."
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Charts
Weekly charts
Chart (1996–97) Peakposition scope="row" scope="row" scope="row" Canadian Albums (RPM)22scope="row" German Albums (GfK Entertainment)6 Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)24scope="row" scope="row" scope="row" US Albums (Billboard 200)104Zimbabwean Albums (ZIMA)* Zimbabwe. Kimberley, C. Zimbabwe: albums chart book. Harare: C. Kimberley, 20008
Year-end charts
Chart (1997)PositionAustralian Albums (ARIA)24Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)1Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)31Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)7German Albums (GfK Entertainment)12Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)3
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