You may have noticed if you saw them appear on Graham Norton show last night that Brian McFadden was missing from the sofa. He did, however, attend the first day of their Turnaround Tour in the audience, which perhaps proves there was no bad blood.
He has also appeared a couple of times at signings and on television, but never in a performing capacity. They have great voices, but they are the ugliest band I have ever seen in my life.
The new group, formed on 3 July , was renamed Westside but that name was already in use by another band, so it was changed to Westlife. In Westlife — Our Story , Byrne revealed that, unlike the others in the group, he was keen to change the name to West High. McFadden also changed the spelling of his name to Bryan to make it easier to sign autographs. Boyzone singer Ronan Keating was brought in to co-manage the group with Walsh. Westlife's first big break came in when they opened for Boyzone and Backstreet Boys ' concerts in Dublin.
In April , the group released their first single, "Swear It Again" which immediately topped the charts in Ireland and in the UK for two weeks. Their first album, simply titled Westlife , was released in November and went to No. The album was the biggest chart dropper on the top 40 in UK music history when, in its 58th week on the charts it leapt from No.
Coast to Coast was released a year later and was another No. It became the country's 4th biggest selling album of Both singles reached No. Westlife released World of Our Own , their third album, in November The group released their eleventh UK No. Their version won them their third Record of the Year award, in under five years.
On 9 March , just three weeks prior to embarking on their fourth world tour, Brian McFadden left the group to spend more time with his family and work on solo projects. On that day, a press conference was held where all the group's members were present, each giving emotional individual speeches. McFadden's final public performance as part of Westlife was at Newcastle upon Tyne's Powerhouse nightclub on 27 February Less than a month after McFadden's departure, the group kicked off their "Turnaround Tour".
A live version, from the tour, of "Flying Without Wings" was released as an official UK download, earning them the title of the very first UK Downloads 1. They then released a Rat Pack-inspired album and fifth album Allow Us to Be Frank , which peaked at No. No singles from this album were released in the UK.
Prior to the release of the Allow Us to Be Frank album, Westlife scouted for "the perfect fan" to help promote their album from their one-season special show She's the One , presented by Kate Thornton. On 5 November , both the album and the single were at No. It was the first time that Westlife had held both the top album and the top single position in the same week.
This tour marked the first time that Westlife travelled to mainland China for a concert. Their seventh album, The Love Album was a "love" concept album which consisted of popular love-song covers. The album outsold other compilation albums by Oasis , The Beatles, and U2 in its first week of release and went straight to No.
They also returned back to the Miss World stage where billions saw them performing their biggest hits. On 5 November , Westlife released their eighth album, Back Home , which contained nine new original songs along with three cover songs. The album debuted at No. On 15 December , they had a two-hour show called The Westlife Show where they performed 10 of their songs, some of which were voted online by fans and some from Back Home.
It was hosted by Holly Willoughby. Before the release of the second single, they embarked on the Back Home Tour on 25 February This tour marked the first time that the group had travelled and performed in New Zealand, performing four sold-out shows in Auckland, Wellington, New Plymouth and Christchurch.
Meanwhile, "Something Right" was released as the second single and "Us Against the World" became the third single in Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Both songs performed well on several music charts. Music Week revealed on their website that Westlife was the official third top touring act within the years —, while they were the seventh top touring act of To mark their tenth year in music, Westlife staged a special 10 Years of Westlife , a sold-out concert at the world's thirty-third biggest and Europe's fourth biggest stadium, [44] Croke Park, on 1 June The group announced that they would be on hiatus for a year after their Back Home Tour [48] and that there would not be an album release in as they would be spending more time on the production of their tenth album.
As the group ended another successful tour, Louis Walsh announced in the show Xpose that 1 July would be the official start of the longest hiatus of the group. He said that it will be a one-year break, from that day up to 1 July But luckily for us, Ronan Keating co-lead singer of Boyzone stepped in. The lineup of I. Auditions were held in Dublin to find two new members for the group. Nicky Byrne and Brian McFadden were eventually chosen…Brian changing his name to Bryan to make signing autographs easier.
Westlife as we now know them were born! The group were now known as Westside — their name was reportedly changed by Ronan who felt that I. YOU was too boyband-esque. Because 3 of the group Kian, Mark and Shane were from the west side of Ireland. Westlife went on to release their first single Swear it Again in April The single went straight to the top of the British and Irish charts, becoming the biggest-selling debut single ever in Ireland.
Westlife released their eagerly-awaited self-titled debut album, Westlife , in the UK in November Winning numerous awards, Westlife achieved much acclaim and enjoyed a lot of success, breaking records seemingly as fast as they set them. Their second album, Coast To Coast , went triple platinum in Ireland after only one day of release in Well back then their name was Westside but then they changed the name again because they found out there was another band already named Westside..
Westlife went on to release their first single Swear it Again in April which went straight to the top of the British and Irish charts, becoming the biggest-selling debut single ever in Ireland!!
Winning numerous awards left right and centre, it is clear that Westlife have achieved much acclaim and enjoyed a lot of success. Already in their brief career Westlife have broken records as fast as they have set them - their second album, Coast To Coast went triple platinum in Ireland after only one day of release, and their seventh single release, My Love, gave them a place in chart history as they became the only band in UK chart history to have their first seven singles debut at number one….
In March , a new chapter begin for the group as Bryan McFadden announced his departure from the band, citing his desire to spend more time with his young family..
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