Undoubtedly amazing performance from westlife. . their best in ages. . they look really refreshed and every 1 looks much more handsome than before!!! well done guys. . .

According to this vid

 

X Factor - Westlife - What About Now - HQ

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDXkvxMh_e8

 

 

 

Westlife won 4(!!!!!!!) Brit Awards? :o

 

 

ARE the biggest selling band in the UK :huh:

 

and sold over 43 million records(considering last time they claimed 40 mil) :lol:

 

How desperate and pathetic are they? Simon, what's wrong with you? :(

 

 

4 brit awards. . well that was so wrong. . . ebst selling band of the decade it said. . . aand 43 milion records can be true. . they sold around 20 millions in the uk alone. . .

best selling band of the decade (2000-2009) - true

4 brits - wrong (2 only)

43 million - maybe a fact (maybe they updated it) wow 3 million added :)

 

#2 - irish iTunes

#3 - UK

 

no music video, no radio airplays

Edited October 26, 200915 yr by zealoveswl

I love their performance and their songs !!!!

I love Shane new haircut !!!!

 

 

Watch this get Top 5 and Daughtry will still have trouble getting into the top 10 <_< Their version is exactly the same as Daughtry's. Its A DISGRACE.

best selling band of the decade (2000-2009) - true

 

How's that possible?, Their last album Back Home only sold 900k in the Uk and their biggest selling album to date(CTC) sold around 1,4 million( quite average sales compared to the likes of (Oasis, Coldplay, Take That, Dido, Robbie)! ))))))) Not to say other abums sales were very mediocre ( all just under mil)....

Besides, they just couldnt sold 3,5 million in one year since Back Home flopped almost everywhere where it was released. So the 43 mil figure is definitely FAKE.

 

Why would Simon lie about their achievements? I don't get it.

 

The "best selling band of the decade" didn't explicitly say "only albums," so Westlife could very well take first place when album sales and singles sales (and possibly DVD sales) are totaled.

 

Regarding the "43 million" statistic, I don't believe that Simon Cowell/X Factor would lie and simply make up a statistic like that, since it's not like they need to artificially inflate Westlife's accomplishments. Also, remember that "43 million" could be the rounded figure -- mathematically speaking, anything over 42.5 rounded to the nearest whole number is 43!

 

So, if the "40 million" previous figure was from before Back Home, they would have needed to sell only about 2.5 million albums worldwide in the past two years (including Back Home, which was released in Autumn 2007, and continuing sales of their back catalogue).

According to http://www.worldwidealbums.net/, Back Home album sales are 1,2 mil worldwide, so they just managed around+200k outside the UK..... The Love Album-1,5 million,by the way. There's just NO way the 43 million figure is accurate.The only way the 43 million figure is not made up if Coast to Coast and

World of Our Own albums sold +10 million each worldwide.

And what about this ''4 Brit Awards''claim? You still don't believe that Simon Cowell/X Factor would lie? :lol:

If was assume X Factor used the pre-Back Home, 40 million number as a starting point, then it is entirely possible Westlife sold 2.5 million albums in the past two years. If Back Home sold 1.2 million worldwide, then their other eight studio albums needed to sell a total of 1.3 million copies worldwide in two years. That means that from Fall 2007 to now, each of the eight older studio albums needed to sell about 160,000 copies worldwide, which is entirely possible (I bought Unbreakable six months ago because I didn't own it and it was only 4 pounds on Amazon UK).

 

According to Wikipedia, Westlife have won only 2 Brit Awards, but they have received 4 nominations. If X Factor claimed "4 Brit Awards" on purpose to try and fool the public, then they're morons, because that statistic is incredibly easy to verify. However, notice that the number used in the intro last night (4) was the number of nominations. It's entirely possible that the person gathering the statistics for the intro accidentally used the # of nominations instead of the # of wins, and no one assembling the intro noticed that statistic was incorrect. I'm sure Louis Walsh knows how many Brit Awards Westlife has won, but I'd be willing to bet he's not part of the team editing X Factor intros.

 

If I thought that there was no reasonable explanation for any of the statements made last night, I'd gladly say so. But based on all the information found online and quoted in this topic, I can present legitimate explanations for two of the statements.

tracklisting:

 

 

1. What About Now

2. How To Break A Heart

3. Leaving

4. Shadows

5. Talk Me Down

6. Where We Are

7. The Difference

8. As Love Is My Witness

9. Another World

10. No More Heroes

11. Sound Of A Broken Heart

12. Reach Out

13. I'll See You Again

 

'Where We Are' Album official Tracklisting!

26 Oct 2009

According to HMV the Tracklisting of Westlife's new album 'Where We Are' which will be released on 30 November 2009 will be the following:

 

01. What About Now

02. How To Break A Heart

03. Leaving

04. Shadows

05. Talk Me Down

06. Where We Are

07. The Difference

08. As Love Is My Witness

09. Another World

10. No More Heroes

11. Sound Of A Broken Heart

12. Reach Out

13. I'll See You Again

 

'Where We Are' is the tenth album from the hugely successful Westlife. Includes the single "What About Now" plus 12 more new tracks.

 

Other songs on the album include "Shadows" - which was written by Ryan Tedder and AJ McLean (Who have written for the likes of The Backstreet Boys); "No More Heroes" which was written by Lindy Robbins, and "Beautiful" which again was written by Ryan Tedder.

 

Mark Feehily recently commented: "We wanted the first single from our new album to be somewhere between the Westlife sound our fans know and love, and the new direction we're heading in. We've been experimenting with a fresh vibe on this record. After 11 years we see this as phase two of the Westlife story."

 

 

Credit/Source: hmv.com

 

why Beautiful and Now Can't Let Go not on the list??

 

MV should be out now!

radio should pick up the song!

 

UK

#1 on amazon

#2 on iTunes, livehits (overall downloads), hmv and offical midweek sales with 32, 800 sold

 

Ireland

#1 on iTunes

really high sales, its been many years since westlife sold more than 32k till the tuesday midweek, probably since 2001. . .

And this first batch of sales for "What About Now" is coming before radio and video exposure, which means the single could hang around in the Top 10/Top 20 for a few weeks (from what I remember, previous singles have had 3-5 weeks of radio and video plays before release).

this helped a bit cos people didnt have the song until it was released, we hope for the video to come at least this week!!!

In a word Ughhhhhhhhh! :puke2: :puke2: :puke2:

WAN down to #3 on iTunes, Jay Sean has re-overtaken them. The original by Daughtry is #32.

Midweeks for today: Westlife #2, Daughtry #30

Any news about the video ?!

we saw a 20 secns clip, probably the video will be either tonight or in the next few days out!

Congratulations! #2! cheers :)

 

westlife's shane filan - Interview

02 Nov 2009

Love them or hate them, you can't dispute Westlife's popularity and success. 14 consecutive number one singles, a dozen number one albums, sell out tours, and they're still going strong after more than ten years.

 

Now they're back, and we caught up with frontman Shane Filan....

 

How's it going? Are you fed up of doing all these interviews?

 

No, not at all we're officially back on the bandwaggon, we're totally back.. The single's out and the album is out a month from now. We're very excited about talking about this album. It's a slightly different sound, but it's still pop music and it's very exciting for us and the fans. It's a great album and i'm very, very proud of it. I think the first single is a very good indication of what the album is like.

 

What have you been doing for the last 12 months?

 

We have been hanging out with our families, playing golf, chilling out, Nicky set up a girlband (I bet they mean Kian) and his twins are running around the place now, my wife had a baby, some of us travelled, so we've been doing all the things we haven't been able to do properly over the last ten years really. We played a huge gig at Croque park in Dublin, which was one of the highlights of our careers, so we finished on a high there.

 

How are you going to top the Croque Park gig?

 

We've got some big ideas, we want to tour Asia and some of the places we've never been to on a world tour. We're rushing to meet our agents now to thrash out ideas. That is why we're so excited about this album, we know it's going to be a really good album and we are spoilt for choice with singles. We made a pact as a band that we wouldn't record a song unless we thought it was good enough to be a single, so it was probably annoying for the record company, but as a band, we've never come together so well on an album. We've really worked closely with Simon Cowell on this album. We never thought he'd still be so in to us, but he is, he's been very involved and he's so proud of this album. When you have Simon behind you, you just feel a good buzz there, and we feel we've done something special. It's a great pop album.

 

You mentioned a different direction, can you expand on that?

 

A different direction might be a bit wrong. I think it's still pop music, but there's a different variation on it. One massive thing is we worked with different producers, who we've never worked with before, and new song writers. There are thirteen songs on the album and twelve of them are originals. There's more tempo, more rocky songs, some more american songs, some darker songs on there with darker lyrics. It's the best production we've had on any other album. The strings, the music is just on another level. Even if you're not a Westlife fan but you're a music fan, you will recognise the quality on this album.

 

You apparently said in the papers that your X Factor appearence would determine the next 18 months of your career. How do you feel now you've done it?

 

I think the next 18 months might be good!! We were very happy with the performance, we felt it went really well, Louis and Simon were delighted and they'll always tell us honestly what they think, even if it's to say we could have done something better. They were literally jumping up and down, they were so pleased with it.

 

How many albums are you contracted to do? How long will Westlife be around for?

 

We only have one studio album left on our current contract, so renegotiations will be happening shortly. As a band, we've done ten albums but we want to do twenty. We don't see ourselves splitting up, ever. We're very proud of this album and I think it's going to be hard to top, but we'll take each album on at a time. We'll give it a good old try. Instead of doing an album every year, we think we'll make one every two albums, and keep making pop music. We will never desert our fans, and fans of what we are, but we will still have a dabble here and there with what we do. We'll experiment, like What About Now - it sounds like a Weslife song, but it has a slightly different sound and it's more uptempo.

 

None of you have done anything solo - will that change?

 

No, I don't think it will. We're not that type of band. We're all individually very happy, we have no hidden agenda's in the band. If someone wants to do something different we'll always encourage it, Nicky might present at an awards show, Mark might want to sing a song on his own and Kian may want to do something I don't know, but as a band, when we're singing we're there as a four. It's always been that way since Brian left and it always will be. They say the grass is always greener, but I don't think it is. You need to have someone with you, it would be a fairly lonely life doing this all on your own. We're successful and happy, why ruin that? We have a great life, we're all great friends. Two or three of us might go for a drink together or go to the cinema, you know, we have a great craic outside of Weslife, we're all great friends, so Westlife will continue as it is.

 

Westlife released new single 'What About Now' on Monday.

Their album Where We Are is out on November 30.

 

Credit/Source: www.celebburp.com

 

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01 Nov 2009

Westlife want to mark return with Landsdowne gig

 

Sport-mad Westlife will be in a world of their own when they become the first pop group to play the new Landsdowne Road.

 

The pin-ups, who have returned from a year off, will release their 10th studio album Where We Are next month.

 

'We will tour more next year and go to places we haven't been much like South Africa," Shane Filan revealed.

 

"That way we can cheer for Ireland at the World Cup."

 

And they will give the Irish team the perfect send off to the football championships when they become the first pop band to play the new Aviva Stadium.

 

Records

 

A band insider revealed: "Westlife have already agreed to do a number of dates in Ireland.

 

"They are definitely going to play a number of dates in the Odyssey Arena in Belfast.

 

"When it comes to Dublin everyone is talking about Croke Park, but they have already done that.

 

"The boys are all about breaking records and being number one so they have their hearts set on Landsdowne Road.

 

There is a good chance they will do a number of dates at the O2 but for now they are in talks to play at the Aviva Stadium."

 

Credit/Source: The Sunday Star

 

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Westlife story - Nicky Interview

30 Oct 2009

Following his long-awaited comeback with the lads of Westlife, we had a candid chat with Nicky on the new album, their exciting year ahead and, of course, his stance on the twins that are the talk of the nation...

 

Congratulations on your incredible laser laden performance last weekend… How was it for you?

 

It was great for us actually. We felt really, really confident going into the performance. Probably because we really feel and believe in the song. We’re proud of that song and the whole album. We’ve been on The X Factor a few times before but with this song we just felt it was right for us and it was the best song to come back with and people would like it… and we were confident to nail it vocally.

 

So, yeah, we loved the performance! It’s always great to get up there and sing on stage… and with that many viewers, you don’t get that every day. It was a win win situation.

 

It was your first performance after a year off. How is it to be back?

 

Yep, we’ve definitely had enough time off now! We’re back with our brand new album our brand new single and it feels good, it feels better than it has a for a long, long time. So we’ll see what happens!

 

Your new album is out in November. What can your fans expect?

 

Our fans have been great, you know, we’ve got such a bond with them and they’ve supported us through everything. I think with this album they’re going to love what we’re offering… I’ll have a shock if they don’t because there are no fillers. We set out to make the best pop album we could and we feel we have done.

 

If The X Factor had been about when you were trying to make it do you think you would have entered and how do you think you would have fared?

 

I definitely would have gone for it, because if you’re at that age and you want something that badly, as soon as you build up the courage to do it, you just got for it. How I would have fared? God knows! I’d like to think I would have done ok, but you never know. It depends what year you get… I could have been up against Leona Lewis!

 

As a successful international pop star, do you have any top tips for our Finalists?

 

Firstly, thank you for calling me an international pop star! I think just enjoy it. Embrace it. It doesn’t matter if it lasts 10 years or five minutes… I think you’ve got to enjoy it! During my year off, I look back and I was watching The X Factor thinking I’m usually involved in this kind of stuff. But because we were off we were out of the loop and it felt very strange.

 

So I would say to everybody, it doesn’t always last very long. Thankfully it has for us, but I know lots of bands that it didn’t last for… so just enjoy it and take everyday and love it and work hard. Don’t waste this opportunity… give it your all and if you win it or you come close to winning it you never know what’s around the corner for you.

 

You guys have been around for over ten years now… you’re now more of a man band than a boy band! What’s the secret to your success?

 

Truthfully I don’t know. There’s lots of ways you can look at it. We’ve had a great manager behind us. You can say we’ve got a great label behind us. Obviously with Simon he’s probably one of the most powerful men in music at the moment. So, all those factors are huge. But I think as well as that, you have to get on. You have to like each other as a band. You have to not want to be a solo star because that could be the beginning of the end.

 

I would hate to do this on my own. We were recently shooting a video in Iceland and we were in the middle of nowhere freezing our… legs off and I’m thinking to myself it’s great fun because I’m having a laugh with the lads. I’d hate to be doing it on my own! I’d like to think that vocally we sound good together as well and we’re hard workers. All those factors come together.

 

What’s on the cards for Westlife over the next year? Will you be touring?

 

We’ve got a meeting this week with our agent to see when the tour begins, and there should be one from Westlife next year. Maybe May, June or July. The reason it’s later in the year is because we feel that this album is the strongest we’ve ever had and we want to make sure that the singles get the light of day. We’ve never been spoiled for choice for singles before… and with this album we are!

 

So, we have to ask, do you have any favourites from our finalists?!

 

Obviously it’s a strong year but I do believe Lucie, from the very first audition I saw her in, has an amazing talent. Danyl’s obviously really good, everyone’s talking about him. Jedward? Well, they’ve got something that nobody else has got! They’re quirky, they’re young, they’re enjoying it and Louis seems to know what he’s doing because the whole country is talking about them! Yeah, so I think they’re really cool and I hope they go far.

 

Westlife released their new single What About Now on Monday 26th October and the album Where We Are is out on November 30th.

 

Credit/Source: xfactor.itv.com

 

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Westlife's Shane: I was a Jacko nut

30 Oct 2009

Westlife's Shane Filan reckons his obsession with Michael Jackson as a child was the reason he got into pop music.

 

Shane, 30, is the lead singer for one of the world's most successful boy bands and he puts his glittering career down to a childhood of singing along to Jackson's Bad album.

 

He said: "I was a freak Michael Jackson fan when I was younger - I had his hat and I got my mum to stitch things on to a white glove I bought, I was like a proper Michael Jackson nut."

 

He added: "Michael was probably one of the main reasons I was in Westlife. I used to try to copy him and try to sing like him and maybe he made me a good singer."

 

The Irish pop star was at the premiere for the new Jackson documentary film This Is It and he reckons the tour could have been the King of Pop's best ever.

 

He said: "He could really nail the vocals at 50 years old. He was literally note perfect and he's just an incredible dancer and if something wasn't done right he would just question somebody and say make sure you get it right next time.

 

"I would say it would have been one of the best shows I've ever seen in my life and it's a pity we're not going to get to see it."

 

Credit/Source: musicnews.virginmedia.com

 

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Brian in Westlife 'would be weird'

29 Oct 2009

Shane Filan has poured water on rumours Brian McFadden might return to Westlife, saying it would be "weird".

 

Brian has been rumoured to be rejoining the group he walked out of in 2004.

 

But lead singer Shane, 30, said: "It would be weird, it would be like a stranger coming back to a band."

 

He added: "Brian being in the band for us was kind of like going to school with somebody for five or six years. Then you go to college and you see each other at the end of college and it's hard to be back all of a sudden being perfectly friendly with that person and to fit into that role again."

 

And although Shane is still friendly with Brian, who has two daughters with ex-wife Kerry Katona, he doubts whether a professional relationship could work now. He explained: "We've changed as people and we've changed as a band... we've moved on."

 

And although reuniting the band looks unlikely, Shane admitted: "Maybe someday we would sing with him."

 

But Shane doubts whether Brian, who is enjoying success in Australia with fiance Delta Goodrem, would even want to rejoin the band.

 

He said: "I was chatting with him the other week and he said he was really enjoying himself and he was very happy and everything was starting to make sense for him. So I don't think he would want to be back in Westlife personally."

 

Credit/Source: yahoo.com