Nightlife (Pet Shop Boys album)

Nightlife is the seventh studio album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 8 October 1999 by EMI in Germany and Japan and on 11 October 1999 by Parlophone in the UK. After the release and promotion of their previous album, Bilingual (1996), Pet Shop Boys started work with playwright Jonathan Harvey on the stage musical that eventually became Closer to Heaven; at one stage during the writing process, the musical was given the name Nightlife. Pet Shop Boys soon had an album's worth of tracks and decided to release the album Nightlife as a concept album and in order to showcase some of the songs that would eventually make it into the musical.

The album incorporates a variety of musical influences, including trance on the Rollo-produced "For Your Own Good" and "Radiophonic"; dance-pop on "Closer to Heaven" and "I Don't Know What You Want but I Can't Give It Any More"; disco pastiche on "New York City Boy"; and country music on "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk". The track "Happiness Is an Option" is based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's classical piece Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14.

As of May 2001, the album had sold 1.2 million copies worldwide. It reached number seven on the UK Albums Chart (their first studio album not to reach the top five) and spent three weeks on the chart at the time, later re-entering at number 29 following the album's Further Listening 1996–2000 reissue in 2017. It also became the duo's lowest-charting studio album in the United States up to that point, reaching number 84 on the Billboard 200.