Westlifes mistake wa sthey didnt change or move into any new ground really, they stuck to the same formula and never really added any new fans but instead lost some on the way. I dount they are worried now though, they have made their money and to be fair to them they have done quite well for themselves. I still think they will reunite some time in the future again but there will be no take that style return from them.

 

What i am interested to see is what style of music shane will release, will he stay with the westlife style or change.

Shane and the other guy will both flop as solo artists. They arent good enough to survive outside of Westlife in the charts. They'll probably pick up a couple of top 10s in Ire, but in the UK they will be lucky to break top 30

Serious music fans (quoting The Irish Times) here are quite surprised that Lighthouse is not performing well and thought the split will help them OR #15 is a high number for them despite it only stalls at the top 30 on itunes. As a fan it's not a big surprise. The fans focus on the ticket tours, on how they'll see the lads for the last time as a group. The fans are still upset, disappointed, weakened by their decision but we're matured people so we need to respect and accept it. They are still here but it won't be the same anymore after the farewell tour :(

 

The song is weak, it's not a Westlife sound but more of a Take That sound/oldies twang sound. The lyrics fits them but B-side and I think Beautiful World sounded better. This proves that most of the people's taste in pop music here sucks saying that this is the best westlife song in a long time. Well you really don't know Westlife that well.

 

For some who posted isn't the spilt enough for you to shut up with all those negativities, stating the figures that they're declining, proving to yourself that they are the biggest losers in the music scene. WTF, you're not human aren't you? Well you better rejoice all your life because this will be the last.

 

Aside from itunes they have text pre-order service and other stores HMV, Play, Amazon which is more comfortable to order for some fans andmaybe the hard-core fans double ordered the single on each stores since this will be the last. Physicals still play big time for them but looking on their Twitter they are not that bothered with how Lighthouse will chart (don't tell me you gotta have to say something negative again with it).

Edited November 15, 201113 yr by myxxd

They've only sold one date? They would never sell out Wembley stadium.

 

wow we're talikng about Croke Park not Wembley Stadium.. certified TT fan.

 

That's beyond tragic.

 

Charis is obviously not from your country so it's most likely that English is not his and cannot express himself fully. Of course the split is tragic, an as a fan with commitment to what we love, we wait for Westlife's releases BUT THAT DOESN"T MEAN WE DON'T DO ANYTHING ELSE LIKE WHAT YOU THINK. Haven't you loved, collected or fanned someone/something because you seem not.

 

please look yourself at the mirror first, everyone who bashes the inferiors, you need to gain more experience in real life please.

 

Shane and the other guy will both flop as solo artists. They arent good enough to survive outside of Westlife in the charts. They'll probably pick up a couple of top 10s in Ire, but in the UK they will be lucky to break top 30

 

and now you're a fortuneteller, with your mighty feat and powers it'll sure come true. Na

 

You personally have no idea how successful Westlife were especially in early 2000s not just in UK/Ireland/Europe but also in Asia/Africa/Australia/South America compare to your Take That's Beautiful World, Circus, Progress, and present time and the 90's all combined. Gary Barlow has this jinx both Collective and Lighthouse hardly peaking the top 10.

Edited November 15, 201113 yr by myxxd

The song is weak, it's not a Westlife sound but more of a Take That sound/oldies twang sound.

 

Sounds nothing like a TT song.

 

and now you're a fortuneteller, with your mighty feat and powers it'll sure come true. Na

 

You personally have no idea how successful Westlife were especially in early 2000s not just in UK/Ireland/Europe but also in Asia/Africa/Australia/South America compare to your Take That's Beautiful World, Circus, Progress, and present time and the 90's all combined. Gary Barlow has this jinx both Collective and Lighthouse hardly peaking the top 10.

 

 

You can't compare TT to Westlife, they are better in nearly every way. Westlife are ok, i dont mind them at all.

 

Collective was organised by Barlow in a sense that he spoke to Labrinth and Lab got the artists he thought would do well with Barlow's blessing. Barlow didnt sing or produce it so you cant really say that. It will fly up the charts on thurs and fri dont worry about that.

Lighthouse is their best song in a long while and sounds much more like a John Shanks song, I read somewhere that Barlow just wrote the music to it and Shank did the lyrics himself. The fact it isnt going top 10 is because they have done no substantial promo i.e XF and people are just not interested in them anymore.

 

And you are very naive if you think Shane and the other guy will be successful solo artists. If Westlife arent successful anymore then they have no chance.

Edited November 15, 201113 yr by jay727

They've only sold one date? They would never sell out Wembley stadium.

 

They've put a second one on now, selling Croke Park in the fastest time ever is absolutely huge!

You're honestly saying they would never sell out Wembley when they sold out Croke Park in 4 minutes, really? If you like... :blink:

 

 

As far as how Lighthouse is performing I am gutted and suprised it's doing as badly as it is. But considering their radio airplay is unbelievably small and they have only performed it the once on Loose Women and the lads themselves aren't mentioning it on their twitters and stuff, I shouldn't really... but with it being the possibly last single I'm suprised the fanbase didn't get behing them more. Saying that Westlife have focussed on the album the last few years anyway and the GH is looking like it will get good sales so I shouldn't be bothered, it's just a massive shame to loose their top 10's on their last one. That said, they shouldn't ahve changed the single to Lighthouse just two days before shooting the video when both the other two options, Poet's Heart and Beautiful World are in another class entirely (Wide Open sounds like it's a lot better too).

 

 

As much as I hate saying it I am in a way glad Westlife are ending purely for the fact Louis has said he hoped he could change their minds and get them to record another covers album. That man is insane! They needed to release more songs like Beautiful World, Beautiful Tonight, I Will Reach You and No One's Gonna Sleep Tonight. They had them on the albums but for some reason they were never singles.

 

And as far as the 'downward slump' is concerned, you have to remember the last two albums both only had the one single and when you take that into consideration their sales are extrmemely good. Gravity was without a doubt less successful than any of their former albums and with Safe leading it it's not suprising, but it did still sell 360,000 which isn't a disaster by a long way, it's not even bad. The Where We Are album did amazing when you consider it was only promoted for 3 weeks with one On Air/On Sale single! It sold half a million in the UK, not many artists would complain about that. Had that had 2+ singles I think we would have seen it up there with Back Home Sales. When their lowest selling album is 360,000 out of 11 releases it's hard to complain, especially when 6 of them topped the million mark.

 

What i am interested to see is what style of music shane will release, will he stay with the westlife style or change.

I'm excited for Marks because of this reason I think he'll break away from the Westlife sound and take more risks.

Edited November 16, 201113 yr by Electro Paradise

In my opinion it's more difficult to be successful as a solo male artist than a member of a group. I think after the initial hype both Mark & Shane will struggle.

They've put a second one on now, selling Croke Park in the fastest time ever is absolutely huge!

You're honestly saying they would never sell out Wembley when they sold out Croke Park in 4 minutes, really?

 

And as far as the 'downward slump' is concerned, you have to remember the last two albums both only had the one single and when you take that into consideration their sales are extrmemely good. Gravity was without a doubt less successful than any of their former albums and with Safe leading it it's not suprising, but it did still sell 360,000 which isn't a disaster by a long way, it's not even bad. The Where We Are album did amazing when you consider it was only promoted for 3 weeks with one On Air/On Sale single! It sold half a million in the UK, not many artists would complain about that. Had that had 2+ singles I think we would have seen it up there with Back Home Sales. When their lowest selling album is 360,000 out of 11 releases it's hard to complain, especially when 6 of them topped the million mark.

I'm excited for Marks because of this reason I think he'll break away from the Westlife sound and take more risks.

 

The demand is there for them in Ireland without a doubt BUT i cannot see 90,000 people in the capital rushing to see them at Wembley. Even Coldplay aren't playing Wembley so what makes you think Westlife would be able to do it lol

 

Even if the last 2 albums had 6 singles, the singles following it would have been lucky to break top 40 and wouldnt really effect the sales of the album. That's why Simon Cowell didnt agree on releasing post album singles.

 

I agree Mark will be slightly different, but as the comment above this one says once the intial solo hype of the first single calms down they will probably struggle to sell anything outside of ireland

 

They've put a second one on now, selling Croke Park in the fastest time ever is absolutely huge!

You're honestly saying they would never sell out Wembley when they sold out Croke Park in 4 minutes, really? If you like...

Listen, TT sold 2 Croke Park dates( Progress tour) in a few minutes. Westlife did sell 1 date but it's their farewell tour and they don't do any other Irish dates as far as i am concerned. And it's the last date of the tour after all. What kind of achievement is that? If they sold 8 Croke Park dates in a row like TT did 8 Wembley dates that would be impressive. I am sure that wont sell out a stadium anywhere else but Ireland.I even am not sure they will sell out a second Croke date( if they release it).

 

The song is weak, it's not a Westlife sound but more of a Take That sound/oldies twang sound.

 

I knew Wl fans would blame Gary for their failure. :lol: You shouldn't really. It's just people lost interest..Of course Westlife still have their fan base and some of them are VERY obsessive(judging by the posts above) but it's not enough to get them higher in the charts. They just don't have that likability factor.

fantastic band undoubtedly. . . they are on the top still. . .

 

I get you're a huge Westlife fan but there's no need to be delusional.

I get you're a huge Westlife fan but there's no need to be delusional.

 

you've got to understand him because hie's obviously not from your country with different cultures and English is not his main language.

Beautiful World already leaked and Mark said from his twitter that they will make a music video for this very soon. As Sony said Lighthouse will be the last physical single and the last single. Well BW will be the last download single and the 'encore' single. I'm thinking the video will be more of clips from their concert tours, I hope they'll add more strobe lights and colorful background since it'll be the last and the song is stunning

 

 

 

Listen, TT sold 2 Croke Park dates( Progress tour) in a few minutes. Westlife did sell 1 date but it's their farewell tour and they don't do any other Irish dates as far as i am concerned. And it's the last date of the tour after all. What kind of achievement is that? If they sold 8 Croke Park dates in a row like TT did 8 Wembley dates that would be impressive. I am sure that wont sell out a stadium anywhere else but Ireland.I even am not sure they will sell out a second Croke date( if they release it).

I knew Wl fans would blame Gary for their failure. :lol: You shouldn't really. It's just people lost interest..Of course Westlife still have their fan base and some of them are VERY obsessive(judging by the posts above) but it's not enough to get them higher in the charts. They just don't have that likability factor.

 

 

Yeah i forgot TT sold out 2 Croke Park dates in minutes lol.

 

And of course they were cos it gives them an excuse to blame someone else for their lack popularity. Just imagine if Gary hadn't written the song! They wouldnt have made top 40

 

That Beautiful Tonight, will 100% miss the top 40 anyways

 

 

 

 

 

I get you're a huge Westlife fan but there's no need to be delusional.

 

hahaha! nicely done

The title of the topic is : "Westlife - Lighthouse + The Greatest Hits, Single [14th Nov] Album [21st Nov]"

 

We're not talking about Take That here. You can get yourself someone to talk with anytime :(

Wo we're obsessive. What do you call someone who gets along and post some things with a thread that he/she doesn't appreciate or like after all?

As I said charts or the single isn't the priority of the fans.

Edited November 18, 201113 yr by myxxd

We are simply stating that selling croke park is an achievement, but in the real world other artists sell more than 1 stadium out.

 

the album should do well tho, probably go platinum, maybe double platinum in the run up to their tour. I guess most fans dont want to buy a single that will be on the album anyway

Ok I don't want to keep this TT Vs Westlife Vs Coldplay (seriously where did that come from?) discussion going because it's boring. But I just want to say I posted Westlife selling Croke Park in 4 mintues on here as a sort of celebration as it's not something that happens every day, obviously, because it was a record. I didn't post it to belittle Take That or U2's (as they were the previous record holders) success or to start a 'Westlife are better than Take That', 'no Take That are better than Westlife' sort of war. In fact I didn't even mention any other artist in my post! I don't get why it's wrong for me to mention it 'because TT sold it out twice', that's like saying you can't celebrate someone getting a #1 selling 100,000 'cause someone else had two #1's selling 90,000. Saying the first thing wasn't belitteling (am I making this word up?) the other, its just saying it was a good thing.

 

 

 

myxxd the news than Beautiful World is getting a vid and a release is very welcome! I've only heard a preview, wanting to keep the full ting for when I have the album in my hands, but it was deff my fave from the album and it sounded like it could be one of their best to date. Also, I'm glad a song Mark wrote is getting some sort of release as 'I Will Reach You' not getting one was mind boggeling! I hope they don't use tour footage for this vid, I want all new footage if it's the last time, I imagine it to end a bit like Us Against The World.

Charis is obviously not from your country so it's most likely that English is not his and cannot express himself fully. Of course the split is tragic, an as a fan with commitment to what we love, we wait for Westlife's releases BUT THAT DOESN"T MEAN WE DON'T DO ANYTHING ELSE LIKE WHAT YOU THINK. Haven't you loved, collected or fanned someone/something because you seem not.

 

please look yourself at the mirror first, everyone who bashes the inferiors, you need to gain more experience in real life please.

 

It was one word, you'd think that it was fairly easy to come up with an appropriate response even in a second language if you were only saying one word.

 

Back to the topic

 

Lighthouse debuts at number 11 in Ireland.