The group have accumulated 14 number-one singles as a lead artist as well as having eight number-one albums in the United Kingdom, making them Ireland's most prolific chart-toppers. They are also currently ranked 19th with the most number-one albums of all time and sixth highest band in the list. They have the second most certifications for a boy band in the UK Singles Chart after Take That and the most singles certifications for a pop band on the UK number one singles artists chart since The Beatles.Īccording to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Westlife has been certified for 13.1 million albums, 1.3 million video albums, and 10.2 million singles, with a total of more than 24 million combined sales in the UK. 19 out their 29 singles as lead artist and as featured artist received UK certifications from 1999 to 2019, 17 out of 29 singles from 1999 to 2009 reached the top 2 on the UK Singles Chart. They generated singles such as "Swear It Again", "If I Let You Go", "Flying Without Wings", "I Have a Dream", "Seasons in the Sun", "Fool Again", "My Love", "What Makes a Man", "I Lay My Love On You", "Uptown Girl", "Unbreakable", "When You're Looking Like That", "Queen of My Heart", "Mandy", "Tonight", "Hey Whatever", "You Raise Me Up", "Bop Bop Baby", "The Rose", and "World of Our Own". The band has received over 1.5 billion views on their official YouTube channel alone with more than 2.4 million page subscribers as well, were streamed more than 300 million times, and more than 550 million streams on Spotify as of 2018 and more than a million followers on the said streaming media platform as of May 2019.
The band has sold over 55 million records. After eight years, the quartet group released their eleventh studio album, Spectrum, in 2019.
After an almost one-year hiatus of studio recording in 2008, they regrouped and released the studio albums Where We Are (2009), and Gravity (2010), and the compilation album Greatest Hits (2011). The four remaining members continued as a group to release their cover albums Allow Us to Be Frank (2004) and The Love Album (2006) and the studio albums Face to Face (2005) and Back Home (2007).
Before the start of their Turnaround Tour in 2004, one of the original members, Brian McFadden, departed from the band. 1 (2002), and Turnaround (2003), which continued the group's success worldwide. It was followed by Coast to Coast (2000), World of Our Own (2001), Unbreakable – The Greatest Hits Vol. The group rose to fame with their debut international self-titled studio album, Westlife (1999). Five albums are as a five-piece and eight are as a four-piece. They have a total of thirteen major album releases, eleven of which are studio albums. Brian McFadden left in 2004 to pursue a solo career. The group currently consists of Shane Filan, Mark Feehily, Kian Egan, and Nicky Byrne. They were originally signed by Simon Cowell in the UK, Clive Davis in the US and managed by Louis Walsh and Sonny Takhar. They disbanded in 2012 and reunited in 2018. That same year the last song in the Westlife fool again album also earned them the first position.Westlife is an Irish boy band, which was formed 1998 in Sligo, Ireland. This was after it beat ‘Millennium prayer’ by Cliff Richards. The song earned them the UK Christmas number one single hit title that year. The ‘I Have a Dream/ Seasons in the Sun’ was more than an ordinary hit. In December, the band worked extra hard and killed two birds with one stone when they released a Christmas hit. This album was a pacesetter for them since it made it to the second position days after it had been released. To prove that they were determined to reach greater heights, topping the charts and become a household name.In November that year, their first album was out. This was enough motivation and heads up on greater things to come. Flying without wings also got the chance to be soundtrack in the common, Pokémon, a film done by Warner Brothers. Their music was so good that they were already pausing a threat to other bands that had been in existence before they made it to the industry. By then they were working with renowned producers, the likes of Steve Mac. A few months later, they released another hit, ‘Flying without wings’.
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