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I'm not surprised Alan managed to deceive them all but to win, I didn't see coming at all.

Marvin Kemp looks to be all but confirmed. I think he'll be good on it.

Not sure I fully agree with that. With the clips I've seen, they do seem to have really gone to the effort of putting on a proper show. They're in their 40s now so they're not going to have the same energy that they might have done in their 20s.

Number 6 on the sales chart - tied with Starlight and higher than anything else released since the comeback apart from Hello My Love & Better Man which both peaked at #2.

Lola Young but I think not many people even knew she released an album before Messy blew up. You're right though, it's very rare. Amy Winehouse as mentioned, Raye maybe? Dua Lipa to a degree, I don't know.

I think the official Top 40 would be a stretch - their last track to manage that at all was Better Man in 2019 (#26) but it'd be great.

Waiting for Love? I was getting a little bit of Up (Demi Lovato and Olly Murs).

I wouldn't have pinned that song to be the one he'd perform on there. Obviously the album's out now anyway but I thought he'd want one of the songs that have caught on (Azizam or Sapphire).

The flag lads are just weird. All this bollocks about national pride but not when there's actually something to be proud of.

Well, there's a visualiser now!

Like the falsetto in Something in the Heavens?

I like this, it's a bit different for them but it should play well live.

The tour announcement has gotten them lots of attention, so no attention is not true. It won't chart well because Westlife's fanbase generally aren't heavy on streaming, and they're almost certainly not expecting it to chart well either. The money for them is in touring now. As for music videos, they're not something artists do anywhere near as much as they once did.

I would have liked some re-recordings.

No official announcement about this greatest hits but Shane has given an interview where he mentioned this. Four new songs. I wonder if they'll have done some re-recordings - their last greatest hits was in 2011 and we've had two albums of new material since then but I don't know how many of those songs will actually make the cut.