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Following the gig, the group - Kian Egan, Nicky Byrne, Mark Feehily and Shane Filan - told how "amazing" it was to see fans singing along to their latest songs. It is incredible to be back. We're ecstatic and we loved every minute of it. It was emotional at times too. The BetterMaternityCare campaign are planning to march! Check out our exclusive interview with Linda Kelly from Women Ascend here.

The setlist for Westlife's gig in Croke Park is seriously good. We almost felt a little bit unloved with Simon Cowell, if I was to be honest. We had it full time support with Simon but he got so busy and would do it at the very last minute and we needed someone who was on it all the time. After going back to RCA Records full-time for a one-year album contract, they announced their Greatest Hits album to be released on 21 November It debuted at number 1 in Ireland and number 4 in the UK.

The first and lead single, "Lighthouse" was released in November Egan said: "All the rumours about Brian re-joining Westlife are untrue. We have been a 4 piece for too long now. We love Brian but it's not going to be.

That includes any TV performances. They were scheduled to headline the ChildLine Concert in Dublin on 12 November and to have another exclusive concert on O2 Blueroom, also in Dublin on 24 November. On 19 October , Westlife officially announced they were splitting after a Greatest Hits album and a farewell tour. After 14 years, 26 top ten hits including 14 number one singles, 11 top 5 albums, 7 of which hit the top spot and have collectively sold over 44 million copies around the world, 10 sell out tours and countless memories that we will forever cherish, we today announce our plan to go our separate ways after a greatest hits collection this Christmas and a farewell tour next year.

The decision is entirely amicable and after spending all of our adult life together so far, we want to have a well-earned break and look at new ventures. We see the greatest hits collection and the farewell tour as the perfect way to celebrate our incredible career along with our fans.

We are really looking forward to getting out on the tour and seeing our fans one last time. Over the years Westlife has become so much more to us than just a band.

Westlife are a family. We would like to thank our fans who have been with us on this amazing journey and are part of our family too. We never imagined when we started out in that 14 years later we would still be recording, touring and having hits together. It has been a dream come true for all of us. Kian, Mark, Nicky and Shane [63]. They described the split as an "amicable" one and they wanted a "well-earned break".

But all good things come to an end and they are all keen to do their own thing. The 82, capacity show was sold out in 5 minutes. Due to this popular demand, an extra date was added at Croke Park on 22 June Three months after the split, Byrne said that members of the group fought with one another more and more often in the latter years leading up to the split and he felt that it was the right time to end their time together.

Some media predicted a possible reunion in the future, [66] but Westlife put an end to that speculation by vowing they would never reunite.

Westlife's debut album and single coincided with the apogee of boy band popularity, and their success was most apparent in their homeland and the UK. They had 12 worldwide concert tours over their year career. Despite their success worldwide, Westlife was unable to break into the U.

They didn't know it was Westlife and every single radio station in the States — all came back and said that this is an absolutely huge hit. They said it was great for radio and people are gonna love it, especially as there's just a slight bit of rock guitar to it. But as soon as we revealed it was Westlife, the radio pluggers all went, 'Whoa, not Westlife — it's a boyband. The problem with America is that it's all radio and you've got to break into radio first. And currently radio doesn't want to play boy bands or pop music.

If Bono wrote a song with us tomorrow and it was the biggest hit in the world, if Westlife's name is put to it, it won't be a hit in America because radio will not play us. Though Westlife didn't gain as much success in the States as they did elsewhere, their music was still appreciated. Besides, this song ["Swear it Again"] is just too good for any of that to be a concern.

I can't imagine anyone not playing this because it's another boy band, especially when it doesn't even sound like those other guys. In , Westlife went to Nashville to film a TV documentary.

While they were there, they gave a live performance of the song "Daytime Friends", originally by country music singer Kenny Rogers. These songs were also recorded and included on various albums. Some of the products that Westlife officially released include books, calendars, and tour merchandise such as T-shirts, and fragrances.

They also received sponsorship for their concert tours from Adidas in and Volkswagen in They have official and unofficial books released. The band released a perfume gift set. The group has supported various charitable causes. They were involved in the "Helping For Haiti" charity single that was released in February in the UK, as well as releasing a cover version of "Uptown Girl" for Comic Relief, one of their biggest selling singles to date.

Start the radio. Music database Band. Westlife From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Debut album — Westlife's first big break came in when they opened for Boyzone and Backstreet Boys ' concerts in Dublin. The group cited Syco's decision not to release a second single from Gravity as the reason Byrne felt it as another reason of being unloved, We signed to Simon back in and he was brilliant, but then came the development of The X Factor and American Idol.

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Love to sing along to the oldie's but Goldie's and to see how much they have changed from the boy's they were to the men they are to day it's a great night out always come a way with no voice but can not stop smiling find myself waiting for Shane to sing the wrong words as he just laughs it off like it never happened he's my favourite love all his moves they always to the crowed singing and screaming and they do a great mix in the middle of other people's songs and always make a great job of it lovely bloke's great to watch Read more Report as inappropriate.

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