Must Haves. Music Edition. Westlife.

BACKGROUND HISTORY

Active1990s - 2020s

Formed1998 in Sligo, Ireland

Genre

Pop/Rock

Styles

Club/Dance

Dance-Pop

Contemporary Pop/Rock

Pop

Teen Pop

Group Members

Bryan McFadden

Kian Egan

Mark Feehily

Nicky Byrne

Shane Filan

Brian McFadden

ALBUMS

Westlife, coast to coast, world of our own, turnaround, allow us to be frank,face to face, the love album, back home, where we are, gravity, spectrum, the twenty tour, wild dreams

HITS

Flying without wings, if i let go, mandy, my love, swear it again, you raise me up, i have a dream, fool again

CULTURAL IMPACT

Formed in Sligo, Ireland in 1998, Westlife accompanied withinside the subculture of European boy bands like Take That and Boyzone. The organization achieved ballads and club-worth pop songs for a dedicated European audience, turning into one of the continent`s maximum a hit bands withinside the process. Although they by no means controlled to discover American fulfillment, Westlife launched six platinum-promoting data withinside the U.K. and in the end bought extra than forty million albums worldwide, a feat that helped them eclipse the recognition of father titans like Boyzone, whose lead singer had controlled the band all through its infancy.

Vocalists Shane Filan, Kian Egan, and Mark Feehily first achieved collectively in every other pop organization, IOYOU, and skilled their first brush with fulfillment while Simon Cowell taken into consideration signing them to BMG. The organization's different singers failed to make the cut, however, and a brand new spherical of auditions become released to discover extra succesful members. Nicky Byrne and Bryan McFadden had been in the end added, the organization become signed, and Westlife started out prepping its debut album with the assist of Louis Walsh, Boyzone's manager, and Boyzone member Ronan Keating. Their debut single, "Flying Without Wings," entered the U.K. charts at primary in 1999, a feat that Westlife replicated twelve months later with "Seasons withinside the Sun" and "Swear It Again." All 3 songs had been additionally launched at the organization's self-titled debut, which become met with comparable fulfillment and went platinum withinside the U.K. An American launch accompanied in early 2000 courtesy of Arista Records.