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I found the time to watch the boys on Late Late show and they were great. Flying Without Wings rendition was beautiful, its amazing they can always find new ways to make a 20 year old song fresh but still keep it true to original. I adore the version of Swear It Again they did during Where We Are tour.

Of course no one knows but it is easy to guess that. Of course I hope they achieve success but I just doubt they will, that is all.

That is different though, Coldplay cracked the US years ago and Maroon 5 is an american band. Even if the Westlife's label tries their hardest, that doesn't mean they will manage to crack the US.

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Yeah I think its pretty clear fans bought those 63k, not general public.They will probably be low this week.

Good interview with Nicky https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-sh...eryone-20939324

From Haven: Westlife’s first studio album for nine years, and their 11th in all, Spectrum races to a No.1 debut, opening atop the chart on consumption of 62,621 copies, including 1,867 from sales-equivalent streams. That’s the highest sale achieved by a No.1 for eight weeks and the fifth highest by a No.1 album thus far in 2019. Their eighth No.1 and eleventh Top 10 entry, it includes five songs co-written by Ed Sheeran, and arrives at the summit 20 years and three weeks after their eponymous first album debuted and peaked at No.2 on pure sales of 83,032. Their last studio album, Gravity, sold 94,894 copies to debut and peak at No.3 this week in 2010. Westlife’s best first week came in 2000 when second album, Coast To Coast, sold 234,767 to become their first No.1. It is their biggest-selling studio set, with a to-date tally of 1,725,393 sales, although it trails their chart-topping 2002 compilation Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1, which has sold 1,896,765 copies. Westlife were a quintet with an average age of 20 when they made their album chart debut, and are now a quartet with an average age of 40. Their cumulative album sales, prior to the release of Spectrum, were 13,063,893, with seven of their albums selling upwards of a million. None of their singles has achieved consumption of a million copies, although their 2001 cover of Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl – which has contributed 989,767 of their cumulative singles sales of 9,800,471 to date, will do so early next year. Spectrum replaces The Script’s Sunset & Full Moons (1-14, 5,504 sales), and provides the third instance of an album by one Irish act toppling another in the 21st century, the others both involving Westlife’s former co-manager Ronan Keating, whose Songs For My Mother usurped U2’s No Line On The Horizon in 2009, and whose debut solo set Ronan toppled The Corrs’ In Blue in 2000. The Script and Westlife are now tied on eight No.1 albums, with U2 the only Irish act ahead of them, on 10, although Keating has had nine if we count his five solo and four as part of Boyzone. Spectrum sold almost as many copies last week as the rest of the top five combined, and more than three times as many copies as Celine Dion sold.

What do they mean, video album? Like a concert DVD? They sold 63k in the UK: https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/w...eve-it-__27792/

If anything, I think it would be a good thing to open the tour with it. Hit You With The Real Thing was a great opener, this one could be too.

Yeah, in 2011. I think The X Factor is watched less and less, especially this year when they have celebrities version. I remember Cheryl performing last year and it didn't actually help her. Besides, I don't know if Simon would let them, who knows how he feels.

@1197073324590940160 This sounds like fun :D

I know but it is still nice to see :D As for Without You, I think this might just be a promo thing for the album. I would much rather like to see a video for Take You There, that song is perfect for the radio today, it needs to be the single at one point.

I think the album is definitely a grower, I like it more with each listen, especially when you listen to it in one go from start to finish. I am so glad they don't have any covers on the album and that they all sing. I can't believe we can actually hear Nicky and Kian, I think they aren't only present in My Blood. Its great they are also releasing more singles not caring how they do in the charts. They said they will continue even when the album comes out so it would be cool if in 2020 they release Dance, Take You There, One Last Time (if they want the ballad, its much better than Better Man and especially Repair - its such an interesting song, I think it might surprise everyone. Also, always nice to see something on Westlife on Billboard since it is such a rare occasion :lol: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business...m_medium=social Oh and this, best live act 2019 voted on Ticketmaster: https://www.ticketmaster.ie/ticket-of-the-year

Another nice review: https://lovelondonloveculture.com/2019/11/1...um-by-westlife/

It looks like they put their documentary on hold. Also, they might try to crack America again: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10372...obox=1574141107

Westlife - Spectrum (53,754) * 2 Céline Dion - Courage (12,156)

That will be interesting to see. I am not sure if 1 year old pre-order is actually a good thing, I bet things would have been even better if the album was released while the hype was huge. Of course that was not possible considering they really finished the album just a few weeks ago but I'm just saying.

Mine too, but Repair is close so I would call it a draw :D 50K makes it already a bigger seller than most of no.1 albums in the last few weeks. Actually most albums of the year, only bigger sellers were the linkes of Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran. Liam Galagher etc. And of course it is only Monday.

That tweet is actually is funny :lol: I bet her mom thought they are shit now because the sound was really awful and the clapping was too loud.

Which hate tweet? Thats a bit sad :lol:

They were great on Strictly but boy was the sound shit :lol: Its nice to hear Kian not miming this time around as well, maybe he finally got back his confidence.

This might have been taken out of context because he was the one who said they talked about new ideas for the album already. I do doubt they will release the new album next year, Nicky made it clear they want to go slower this time around.

What is up with their website and section Westside? Nothing happens when you click on it, maybe its an error.

Yeah, signing would have been a good idea, I remember it helped Shane when he was solo. I think they are in a bit of weird situation with having pre-order for a year, the monumentum and hype is gone a bit, maybe it was too long. But I'm sure they will sell well.

Where did you get that? Because kworb site now states they are #1 in 11 countries.