Ratu & Friends

Ratu & Friends is the compilation album by Indonesian pop band, Ratu. Released on 30 August 2005 by Sony BMG Indonesia, it is their first album with new lead singer, Mulan Kwok.

Background

Ratu & Friends would be the first album Ratu recorded and released with its new lead vocalist, Mulan Jameela, who was then known as Mulan Kwok and is a café singer from Bandung who performed with Dimensi Band, following the departure of the band's original lead singer, Pinkan Mambo in October 2004. For the album, Ratu changed their musical style from R&B with light piano to rock with dominant guitars, while their concept became "coquettish and sexy". Ratu & Friends contains two new songs, "Teman Tapi Mesra" and a cover version of Vina Panduwinata's "Di Dadaku Ada Kamu", while the rest are a compilation of songs performed by renowned Indonesian artistes, including Glenn Fredly, Radja and ADA Band.
Ratu & Friends was released on 30 August 2005 and was well-received, selling more than 400,000 copies and was certified double platinum. The album's lead single, "Teman Tapi Mesra" became a major success in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. The ringback tone for the single held the top position in Malaysia for several weeks, while in the group's native Indonesia, the ringback tone saw more than a million downloads. "Teman Tapi Mesra" was then included in Ratu's second album, No. Satu. The song was later re-recorded in English by Swedish girl group, Ladylike as "Dreaming of the Time" in 2009.