About Westlife

History

Westlife is an Irish musical group consisting of Shane Filan, Kian Egan, Nicky Byrne and Mark Feehily. One other member, Bryan McFadden, out on March 9, 2004 for can devote more time to his family life with a former member of Atomic Kitten, Kerry Katona, although they later split up and she changed the spelling her first name to 'Brian'.

The band has proven successful in Ireland and Great Britain, with its success scored 13 number one singles between 1999 and 2005, among others:

* "Swear It Again" (1999)
* "If I Let You Go" (1999)
* "Flying Without Wings", with BoA (contained in the theme song for the movie Pokémon 2000) (1999)
* "I Have A Dream" / "Seasons In The Sun" (a cover of ABBA and Terry Jacks) (1999)
* "Fool Again" (2000)
* "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)" (duet with Mariah Carey) (cover of Phil Collins) (2000)
* "My Love" (2000)
* "Uptown Girl" (cover of Billy Joel) (2001)
* "Queen Of My Heart" (2001)
* "World of Our Own" (2002)
* "Unbreakable" (2002)
* "Mandy" (a cover of Barry Manilow) (2003)
* "You Raise Me Up" (2005)

Not all singles that they made to reach the first rank in the British charts:

* "What Makes a Man" (2000) # 2
* "Bop Bop Baby" (2002) # 5
* "Tonight / Miss You Nights" (2003) # 3
* "Hey Whatever" (2003) # 4
* "Obvious" (2004) # 3

Westlife are also four times in a row won the "Record of the Year" ITV with their single "Flying Without Wings", "My Love", "Mandy", and "You Raise Me Up".

Westlife are not able to penetrate the musical industry in the United States, although their debut single, "Swear It Again", at that time was quite popular on the radio and MTV U.S.. At the MTV TRL, the video clip "Swear It Again" was once asked several times, and entered on the chart "Hot 100" in one magazine in the U.S. (Billboard Magazine) summer edition in order to-20.

Until now they have not managed to achieve similar success in the U.S.. Their debut album failed after it was released in 2000 and that's the only album they released there. That does not mean no development Westlife fans there. The band is also very famous in Asia, Europe, Australia and some countries in America than the U.S..

Like any other boy band, the albums they were addressed to the young women, although there is also a fan they are male (approximately 20% of Westlife fans are male.) Westlife have performed several times in some places the gay community.On August 19, 2005 one of their band member, Mark Feehily, said he was gay to the public as well as being in a relationship with a former band member Kevin McDaid V named.

Discography:

* 1999 "Westlife" # 2 UK, # 129 U.S.
* 2000 "Coast to Coast" # 1 UK
* 2001 "World of Our Own" # 1 UK
* 2002 "Unbreakable" # 1 UK
* 2003 "Turnaround" # 1 UK
* 2004 "Allow Us To Be Frank" # 3 UK
* 2005 "Face To Face" # 1 UK
* 2006 "The Love Album" # 1 UK
* 2007 "Back Home" # 1 UK
* 2009 "Where We Are"

Background
Origin = dam Sligo Dublin, Ireland
Genre = Pop
Years active = 1998-present 

Record company = Sony BMG, RCA, Syco Music, Arista
Website www.westlife.com
Members
Nicky Byrne
Kian Egan
Mark Feehily
Shane Filan
Former members
Bryan McFadden (1998-2004)