Irish boy band Westlife have released twelve studio albums, sixteen video albums, one live album, three karaoke albums, thirty-eight singles, twenty-one promotional singles, nine compilation albums and fifty-four music videos.[A] Formed on 3 July 1998, the group was made up of singers Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden (who quit the band on 9 March 2004). The band was signed under Simon Cowell, Clive Davis, and Jordan Jay and under record labels' BMG, S Records, Arista Records, Sony BMG, Syco Music, Sony Music Entertainment and RCA Records from 1998 to 2012 and currently on Universal Music Group and Virgin EMI Records from 2018. The last four members remained active until their last live concert performance in the Europe's third largest stadium Croke Park on 23 June 2012 and have reunited on 3 October 2018 for new music and tour. Based on the British Phonographic Industry certifications, the group have sold more than 32 million records and videos in the United Kingdom alone across their 20-year career–8.8 million singles, 12.5 million albums and 1.5 million videos.[1] Their biggest selling album is their first Greatest Hits compilation, followed by Coast to Coast, with seven of their albums selling one million copies or more. Their biggest selling video is "Where Dreams Come True", which has sold 240,000 copies to date.[2]
| Westlife discography | |
|---|---|
 Westlife performing live on their Gravity Tour in October 2011 in Hanoi, Vietnam | |
| Studio albums | 12 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 9 |
| Singles | 38 |
| Video albums | 16 |
| Music videos | 55 |
| Promotional singles | 21 |
| No. 1 singles | 15 |
In 2012, the Official Charts Company listed Westlife 34th amongst the biggest-selling singles artists in British music history. They are currently the sixteenth overall biggest group of all time.[3] As of April 2018, the group has sold more than 55 million records worldwide.[4]
They accumulated a total of 26 top ten hits including 15 number one singles as lead artist and as featured artist, 8 number one albums and 13 top 5 albums in the United Kingdom alone. 20 out of 29 singles as lead artist and as featured artist they have released in the United Kingdom have certifications from 1999 to 2022.[5] They are also currently ranked twenty-fourth with most number ones albums of all time.[6] They have had 36 number-one albums worldwide. This earned them the following Guinness World Records: first to achieve seven consecutive number-one singles in the UK, most singles to debut at number one on the UK chart and top selling album group in the United Kingdom in the 21st century.[7][8][9] Despite their success, Westlife never managed to break into the United States, achieving only one hit single in 2000, their debut single "Swear It Again", which peaked at number 20 on Billboard Hot 100 and was certified Gold.
However, "Swear It Again" was the band's first number-one single in the United Kingdom and Ireland followed by seventeen more number-ones from their succeeding singles "If I Let You Go", "Flying Without Wings", "I Have A Dream/Seasons in the Sun", "Fool Again", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "My Love", "Uptown Girl", "Queen of My Heart"/"When You're Looking Like That",[B] "World of Our Own", "Unbreakable", "Tonight"/"Miss You Nights", "Mandy", "Everybody Hurts",[C] "You Raise Me Up", "The Rose", "Hello My Love",[D] and "Dynamite"[E] from 1999 to 2019.
The group's debut international self-titled studio album, Westlife (1999) was number-one in several countries which was followed by succeeding studio albums Coast to Coast (2000), World of Our Own (2001), Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (2002) and Turnaround (2003), which continued the group's success worldwide. The four remaining member 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). After a one-year hiatus in 2008, they regrouped and released studio albums Where We Are (2009), and Gravity (2010) and compilation album Greatest Hits (2011). After eight years, the group reformed and released Spectrum (2019), followed by Wild Dreams (2021).
Albums
editStudio albums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Sales | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRE [10] |
AUS [11] |
AUT [12] |
GER [13] |
NLD [14] |
NZ [15] |
NOR [16] |
SWE [17] |
SWI [18] |
UK [19] | ||||
| Westlife | 1 | 15 | — | 55 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 2 | |||
| Coast to Coast |
|
1 | 40 | 59 | 19 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 38 | 1 | ||
| World of Our Own |
|
1 | 80 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 19 | 1 | ||
| Turnaround |
|
1 | — | 42 | 20 | 33 | 42 | 37 | 5 | 24 | 1 |
|
|
| Allow Us to Be Frank |
|
2 | — | — | 30 | 32 | — | — | 5 | 75 | 3 |
|
|
| Face to Face |
|
1 | 1 | — | 18 | 30 | — | 7 | 9 | 14 | 1 | ||
| The Love Album |
|
1 | 11 | 49 | 34 | 49 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 1 | ||
| Back Home |
|
1 | 14 | 65 | 45 | 48 | 12 | 18 | 33 | 19 | 1 | ||
| Where We Are |
|
2 | — | 53 | 42 | — | 13 | — | 8 | 25 | 2 | ||
| Gravity |
|
1 | — | — | — | 76 | 22 | — | 46 | 50 | 3 | ||
| Spectrum |
|
1 | —[J] | — | 69 | — | — | — | — | 23 | 1 | ||
| Wild Dreams |
|
2 | — | — | 75 | 46 | — | — | — | 71 | 2 |
|
|
| "—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released | |||||||||||||
Compilation albums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRE [10] |
AUS [11] |
AUT [12] |
GER [13] |
NLD [14] |
NZ [15] |
NOR [16] |
SWE [17] |
SWI [18] |
UK [19] | |||||
| Unbreakable – The Greatest Hits Volume 1 |
|
1 | 66 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 14 | 1 | |||
| Greatest Hits |
|
1 | — | — | 75 | 64 | 17 | 31 | 46 | 96 | 4 | |||
| The Love Songs[63] |
|
42 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | —[K] | |||
| "—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released | ||||||||||||||
Compilation albums (Limited release)
edit| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| No.1 Hits and Rare Tracks |
|
| Golden Hits[65] |
|
| Grandes Exitos[66] |
|
| Released[67] |
|
| Collector's Edition[68] |
|
| Diamond – The Ultimate Collection[69] |
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| Best of the Best[70] |
|
Live albums
edit| Title | Video details |
|---|---|
| The Farewell Tour: Live at Croke Park[71][72] |
|
Singles
editAs lead artist
edit| Single | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRE [10] |
AUS [11][73] |
GER [74] |
NLD [75][76] |
NZ [15] |
NOR [16] |
SWE [17] |
SWI [18] |
UK [19] |
US | |||||
| "Swear It Again" | 1999 | 1 | 12 | — | 23 | 1 | — | 12 | 25 | 1 | 20 | Westlife | ||
| "If I Let You Go" | 1 | 13 | 50 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 1 | — | ||||
| "Flying Without Wings" | 1 | 36 | 85 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 12 | — | 1 | — | ||||
| "I Have a Dream" / "Seasons in the Sun" |
1 | 31[L] | 24 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 1 | — |
| |||
| "Fool Again" | 2000 | 2 | — | 80 | 13 | — | — | 5 | 39 | 1 | — | |||
| "My Love" | 1 | 36 | 57 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 38 | 1 | — | Coast to Coast | |||
| "What Makes a Man" | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — |
| |||
| "I Lay My Love on You" | 2001 | — | 29 | 50 | 12 | 24 | — | 10 | 39 | — | — | |||
| "Uptown Girl" | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 1 | — | ||||
| "When You're Looking Like That" | 20[M] | 19 | 24 | 23 | 30 | — | 9 | 47 | 188[N] | — | ||||
| "Queen of My Heart" | 1 | — | 27 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 37 | 1 | — | World of Our Own | |||
| "World of Our Own" | 2002 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 29 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 26 | 1 | — |
| ||
| "Bop Bop Baby" | 4 | 56 | 15 | 21 | 21 | — | 16 | 36 | 5 | — |
| |||
| "Unbreakable" | 1 | — | 12 | 18 | 44 | 9 | 5 | 41 | 1 | — |
|
Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1 | ||
| "Tonight" / "Miss You Nights" | 2003 | 1 | 65 | 47 | 55 | — | — | 33 | — | 3 | — | |||
| "Hey Whatever" | 2 | — | 22 | 30 | 39 | — | 5 | 53 | 4 | — | Turnaround | |||
| "Mandy" | 1 | — | 14 | 27 | — | 15 | 4 | 30 | 1 | — |
| |||
| "Obvious" | 2004 | 3 | — | 39 | 44 | — | — | 25 | 69 | 3 | — | |||
| "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" | — | — | — | 41 | — | — | 20 | — | —[O] | — | Allow Us to be Frank | |||
| "Smile" | — | — | — | — | — | — | 37 | — | — | — | ||||
| "You Raise Me Up" | 2005 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 47 | — | 3 | 7 | 18 | 1 | — | Face to Face | ||
| "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" (featuring Diana Ross) |
2 | — | — | 45 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | ||||
| "Amazing" | 2006 | 3 | 34 | 53 | — | — | — | 36 | 58 | 4 | — | |||
| "The Rose" | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 85 | 1 | — |
|
The Love Album | ||
| "Home" | 2007 | 2 | — | 70 | — | — | 7 | 8 | — | 3[P] | — |
|
Back Home | |
| "Us Against the World" | 2008 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8[Q] | — | |||
| "Something Right" | 43 | 92 | — | — | — | — | 46 | — | — | — | ||||
| "What About Now" | 2009 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 13 | — | 2 | — |
|
Where We Are | |
| "Safe" | 2010 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 10[R] | — | Gravity | ||
| "Lighthouse" | 2011 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 32 | — | Greatest Hits | ||
| "Hello My Love" | 2019 | 2 | — | — | —[S] | —[T] | — | —[U] | — | 13 | — |
|
Spectrum | |
| "Better Man" | 8 | — | — | — | —[V] | — | —[W] | — | 26 | — |
| |||
| "Dynamite" | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | —[X] | — | ||||
| "My Blood" | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 96 | — | ||||
| "Starlight" | 2021 | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 66 | — | Wild Dreams | ||
| "My Hero"[93] | 81 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Alone Together"[94] | 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released | ||||||||||||||
As a featured artist
edit| Single | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRE [10] |
AUS [11] |
AUT [12] |
GER [74] |
NLD |
NZ [15] |
NOR [16] |
SWE [17] |
SWI [18] |
UK [19] | ||||
| "Against All Odds" (Mariah Carey featuring Westlife) |
2000 | 1 | 52 | — | 29 | 29 | — | 2 | 3 | — | 1 |
|
Rainbow |
| "Everybody Hurts" (with Helping Haiti) |
2010 | 1 | 28 | 23 | 16 | —[Y] | 17 | — | 21 | 16 | 1 |
|
Charity single |
| "—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released | |||||||||||||
Promotional singles
edit| Single | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK [19] | |||
| "Until the End of Time"[96] | 2000 | — | Swear It Again |
| "My Private Movie"[97][98] | — | Westlife (American edition) | |
| "More Than Words" | — | Grandes Exitos/Westlife | |
| "Close" | — | Coast to Coast | |
| "Soledad" | 2000 | — | |
| "I Have a Dream" (featuring Sherina) | 2001 | — | Westlife |
| "En Ti Deje Mi Amor" | — | Grandes Exitos/Coast to Coast | |
| "Con Lo Bien Que Te Ves" | — | ||
| "Angel" | 2002 | — | World of Our Own |
| "Evergreen" | — | ||
| "I Wanna Grow Old with You" | — | ||
| "Flying Without Wings" (featuring BoA)[99] | — | Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Asian edition) | |
| "Flying Without Wings" (featuring Cristian Castro)[100] | — | Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Spanish/Mexican edition) | |
| "Flying Without Wings" (Live) | 2004 | —[Z] | Turnaround Tour |
| "Beyond the Sea"[104] | — | Fly Me to the Moon | |
| "That's Where You Find Love" | 2006 | — | Face to Face |
| "Total Eclipse of the Heart" | 2007 | 129 | The Love Album |
| "How to Break a Heart"[105] | 2010 | — | Where We Are |
| "I Will Reach You"[106] | 2011 | — | Gravity |
| "Beautiful World"[107] | — | Greatest Hits | |
| "Without You" | 2019 | — | Spectrum |
| "—" denotes song that did not chart or was not released | |||
Other charted songs
edit| Song | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRE [10] |
RU [108] |
SWE [17] |
UK [19] | |||
| "Angels Wings" | 2002 | — | — | — | 148[AA] | Coast to Coast |
| "Miss You When I'm Dreaming" | 2006 | — | 130 | — | — | Amazing |
| "All Out of Love" (featuring Delta Goodrem) |
— | — | 31 | — | The Love Album | |
| "You Light Up My Life" | — | — | — | 171 | ||
| "All or Nothing" | — | — | — | 142 | ||
| "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" | 2007 | — | — | — | 135 | Home |
| "I'm Already There" | 47 | — | — | 62 | Back Home | |
| "—" denotes song that did not chart or was not released | ||||||
Soundtrack appearances
edit| Year | Song | Movie |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | "We Are One" | A Monkey's Tale |
| 2000 | "Flying Without Wings" | Pokémon: The Movie 2000 |
| "I Don't Wanna Fight" | Maybe Baby | |
| 2008 | "You Are So Beautiful (To Me)" | The Best Movie |
| 2011 | "Safe" | Dolphin Tale |
| 2014 | "You Raise Me Up" | Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie |
Videography
editDocumentaries
edit| Title | Video details |
|---|---|
| The Westlife Story |
|
| Westlife – The Complete Story |
|
Concert tours
edit| Title | Video details | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Where Dreams Come True |
|
|
| The Greatest Hits Tour |
|
|
| The Turnaround Tour |
|
|
| The No.1's Tour |
|
|
| Live at Wembley |
|
|
| Live at Croke Park |
|
|
| Where We Are Tour: Live from The O2 |
|
|
| The Farewell Tour - Live at Croke Park |
|
|
| The Twenty Tour - Live at Croke Park |
|
|
Music video compilations, audio and video albums or singles
edit| Title | Video details |
|---|---|
| Westlife: Karaoke |
|
| Uptown Girl |
|
| Coast to Coast: Up Close and Personal |
|
| World of Our Own |
|
| The Greatest Hits |
|
| Back Home |
|
| The Karaoke Collection |
|
| Greatest Hits Deluxe Edition Bonus DVD |
|
Music videos
edit| Album | Year | Single | Length | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westlife | 1999 | "Swear It Again" | 4:07 | Brett Turnbull, Wayne Isham |
| "If I Let You Go" | 3:39 | Sven Harding | ||
| "Flying Without Wings" | 3:35 | Cameron Casey | ||
| "I Have a Dream" | 4:21 | |||
| "Seasons in the Sun" | 4:02 | Cameron Casey and Simon Brand | ||
| 2000 | "Fool Again" | 4:21 | Cameron Casey | |
| "Swear It Again" (Mexico Promo Mix) | 4:07 | N/A | ||
| "If I Let You Go" (Mexico Promo Mix) | 3:39 | N/A | ||
| Westlife (U.S. edition) | "Swear It Again" (U.S. version) or (Car Wash version) | 4:10 | Nigel Dick | |
| "My Private Movie" (U.S. version) | 3:49 | N/A | ||
| Coast to Coast | "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" (featuring Mariah Carey) | 3:21 | Bill Boatman & P. Snyde | |
| "My Love" | 4:14 | Robert Brinkmann | ||
| "What Makes a Man" | 3:49 | Stuart Gosling | ||
| "Seasons in the Sun" (Studio version) | 4:02 | N/A | ||
| "My Love" (Studio version) | 4:14 | N/A | ||
| 2001 | "I Lay My Love on You" | 3:29 | Stuart Gosling | |
| "Uptown Girl" | 4:12 | |||
| "When You're Looking Like That" | 4:01 | Matthew Amos | ||
| Westlife | "I Have A Dream" (with Sherina Munaf) | 4:35 | ||
| World of Our Own | "Queen of My Heart" | 4:28 | Max & Dania | |
| "Angel" | 4:23 | Phil Griffin | ||
| 2002 | "World of Our Own" | 3:39 | Cameron Casey | |
| "Bop Bop Baby" | 4:57 | Max & Dania | ||
| "Why Do I Love You" (Sessions@AOL) | 3:40 | N/A | ||
| "World of Our Own" (Sessions@AOL) | 3:39 | N/A | ||
| Westlife | "Swear It Again" (Sessions@AOL) | 4:07 | N/A | |
| World of Our Own (U.S. edition) | "World of Our Own" (U.S. version) | Antti Jokinen | ||
| Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1 | "Flying Without Wings" (with Cristian Castro) | 3:35 | ||
| "Flying Without Wings" (with BoA) | 3:34 | |||
| "Unbreakable" | 4:34 | Antti Jokinen | ||
| 2003 | "Miss You Nights" | 3:13 | ||
| "Tonight" | 4:32 | |||
| "Tonight" (Metro Mix) | 4:14 | |||
| Turnaround | "Hey Whatever" | 3:36 | David "Mouldy" Mould | |
| "Mandy" (Version 1) | 3:18 | Tim Royes | ||
| "Mandy" (Version 2) | 3:19 | |||
| 2004 | "Obvious" | 3:29 | Max & Dania | |
| Allow Us to Be Frank | "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" | 2:29 | Marcus Raboy | |
| "Smile" | 2:51 | |||
| "Fly Me to the Moon" | 2:32 | |||
| Face to Face | 2005 | "You Raise Me Up" | 4:00 | Alex Hemming |
| "You Raise Me Up" (Version 2) | 4:00 | |||
| "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" (featuring Diana Ross) | 4:01 | Ashley Pugh | ||
| 2006 | "Amazing" | 2:56 | Max & Dania | |
| The Love Album | "The Rose" (black and white version) | 3:33 | Alex Hemming | |
| "The Rose" (colour version) | 3:33 | |||
| Back Home | 2007 | "Home" | 3:30 | Max and Dania, Mike Lipscombe |
| 2008 | "Us Against the World" | 3:57 | Max and Dania | |
| "Something Right" | 3:15 | Julian Gibbs | ||
| Where We Are | 2009 | "What About Now" | 4:10 | Philip Andelman |
| Helping Haiti | 2010 | "Everybody Hurts" (promotional video) | 6:01 | Joseph Kahn |
| "Everybody Hurts" (director's cut) | 4:36 | |||
| "Everybody Hurts" (official video) | 5:20 | |||
| Gravity | "Safe" | 3:51 | Sean de Sparengo | |
| Greatest Hits | 2011 | "Lighthouse" | 3:56 | Philip Andelman |
| "Beautiful World" | 3:38 | |||
| Spectrum | 2019 | "Hello My Love" | 3:45 | Robert Hales |
| "Better Man" | 3:16 | Lochlainn "Locky" McKenna | ||
| "Dynamite" | 3:32 | Paul Coy Allen | ||
| "My Blood" | 3:33 | Robert Hales | ||
| Wild Dreams | 2021 | "Starlight" | 3:42 | Mike Baldwin |
Notes
- The "If I Let You Go" (Extended Mix), "Evergreen" and "Bop Bop Baby" (Almighty Mix Radio Edit) music videos were exclusively released by a music channel (Myx) in the Philippines.
- The music video for "My Private Movie" was released in Asia only.
Cameo appearance
edit- Vengaboys – "Forever as One" (2001)
See also
edit- List of songs recorded by Westlife
- List of best-selling boy bands
- UK Singles Chart records and statistics
- List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart
- List of best-selling music artists in the United Kingdom in singles sales
- List of artists by number of UK Singles Chart number ones
- List of UK Singles Downloads Chart number ones of the 2000s
- List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 2000s
- List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 2000s
- List of artists who reached number one in Ireland
- List of songs that reached number one on the Irish Singles Chart
- List of best-selling albums in the Philippines
Footnotes
edit- ^ The count for the band's music videos include their professionally recorded promotional videos but does not include the videos with different cut, edit, karaoke, and live versions.
- ^ "When You're Looking Like That" peaked at number-one as a double a-side single track with "Queen of My Heart" in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
- ^ As part of a charity single assemble called Helping Haiti.
- ^ "Hello My Love" peaked at number-one in Ireland Digital Songs Sales Chart.
- ^ "Dynamite" peaked at number-one in the Ireland Digital Songs Sales Chart.
- ^ Worldwide sales figures for Westlife as of May 2001.[26]
- ^ United Kingdom sales figures for Westlife as of December 1999.[27]
- ^ Worldwide sales as of 2001.[34][35]
- ^ United Kingdom sales figures for Coast to Coast as of December 2021.[36]
- ^ Spectrum did not enter the ARIA Albums Chart, but peaked at number seven on the ARIA Digital Album Chart.[58]
- ^ "The Love Songs" did not enter the UK Albums Chart, but peaked at number 18 on the Official UK Budget Albums Chart.[64]
- ^ Released as a triple-A single with "Flying Without Wings" in Australia
- ^ "When You're Looking Like That" was a cancelled stand-alone single in the Republic of Ireland in 2001 but it charted in the official charts in 12 July 2019 and it was declared by OCC as the most streamed song of the band of all time in Ireland as of April 2019.
- ^ "When You're Looking Like That" was a cancelled stand-alone single in the United Kingdom. It charted due to leakage only.
- ^ "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart.
- ^ "Home" also peaked at number two on the UK Singles Physical Chart.
- ^ "Us Against the World" also peaked at number two on the UK Singles Physical Chart.
- ^ "Safe" also peaked at number two on the UK Singles Physical Chart.
- ^ "Hello My Love" did not enter the Official Netherlands Music Chart, but peaked at number 19 on the Dutch Top 40 Tipparade Chart.[88]
- ^ "Hello My Love" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 18 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.[89]
- ^ "Hello My Love" did not enter the Swedish Singellista Chart, but peaked at number 10 on the Swedish Heatseeker Chart.[90]
- ^ "Better Man" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 26 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart and number 9 on the New Zealand Digital Song Sales Chart.[91]
- ^ "Better Man" did not enter the Official Sweden Music Chart, but peaked at number 5 on the Sweden Digital Songs Chart.[92]
- ^ "Dynamite" did not enter the UK Singles Chart but peaked at number 14 on the UK Singles Sales Chart and the UK Singles Downloads Chart.
- ^ "Everybody Hurts" did not enter the Official Netherlands Music Chart, but peaked at number 5 on the Dutch Top 40 Tipparade Chart.[95]
- ^ "Flying Without Wings (Live)" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 1 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart.[101][102][103]
- ^ "Angels Wings" was released as a double A-side single in 2002 with "Uptown Girl" exclusively in the United Kingdom without proper promotion.
References
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- ^ Smith, Candace (3 November 2015). "The best boy bands of the 1990s to 2000s- where are they now". New York Daily News. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
- ^ Myers, Justin (9 November 2018). "Acts with the most Number 1 albums on the Official UK Chart". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- ^ Benett, Dave. "Westlife Party". Getty Images UK.
- ^ "UK Irish Embassy honours Westlife". Irish Examiner. 26 November 2003.
- ^ "Top-selling album act of the 21st century in the UK".
- ^ a b c d e "Irish Charts > Westlife". irish-charts.com Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d Australian chart peaks:
- Top 50 (ARIA) "Australian Charts > Westlife". australian-charts.com Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- Top 100 (ARIA) peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 299.
- ^ a b c "Austrian Charts > Westlife" (in German). austriancharts.at Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ a b "Discographie von Westlife". GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
- ^ a b "Dutch Album Charts > Westlife" (in Dutch). dutchcharts.nl Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d "New Zealand Charts > Westlife". charts.nz Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Norwegian Charts > Westlife". norwegiancharts.com Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "Swedish Charts > Westlife". swedishcharts.com Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Swiss Charts > Westlife" (in German). hitparade.ch Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
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