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West Life
Westlife (from left-to-right: Feehily, Egan, Byrne, Filan) performing in 2009 Background information Origin Genres Years active Labels Website Sligo and Dublin, Ireland Pop 1998 - 2012 RCA, Syco, Sony, BMG www.westlife.com Past members Nicky Byrne Kian Egan Mark Feehily Shane Filan Brian McFadden Westlife are an Irish boy band established on 3 July 1998. They are to disband in 2012 after their farewell tour. The group's line-up was Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and
Brian McFadden (left the band in 2004). The group is the only act in British and Irish history to have their first seven singles peak at number one. Westlife have sold over 44 million records worldwide which includes studio albums, singles, video release, and compilation albums.[1] Despite the group's worldwide success, they only have one hit single in the United States, "Swear It Again", which peaked in 2000 on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 20. The band were originally signed by Simon Cowell and are managed by Louis Walsh. The group have accumulated 14 number-one singles in the United Kingdom, the third-highest in UK history, tying with Cliff Richard. The group had also broken a few records, including "Music artist with most consecutive number 1's in the UK", which consists of their first seven singles and only behind The Beatles and Elvis Presley. The Official Charts Company credited Westlife as the second biggest-selling artist and biggest-selling band of the decade.[2] The band have 14 UK number ones and 25 top ten singles, consisting of 20.2 million records and videos in the UK across their 14-year career - 6.8 million singles, 11.9 million albums and 1.5 million videos.[3] On 1 June 2008, Westlife marked their tenth anniversary with a concert in Croke Park, Dublin which had more than 83,000 fans attending the special occasion. Music Week revealed on their website that Westlife are the official third top touring act within the years 20052008, while they were seventh top touring act of 2008.[4] Also in 2008, they were declared Ireland's ninth-richest celebrities under 30 years old and thirteenth in general with 36 million euros as a group. In 2009, they dropped as sixteenth richest Irish with estimated 8 million euros each. They were named as the fourth most hard-working music artist in UK by PRS in 2010.[5] In August 2011, it was reported in the Irish Examiner that the profits of the band's firm grew five-fold in 2010.[6] On 19 October 2011, Westlife announced they were to split after their Greatest Hits was released on the 21st of November 2011 it debuted in Ireland at number1 for 1 week and debuted and peaked at number 4 in the UK and a farewell tour in Spring 2012.[7]
Origins
The band was originally signed by Simon Cowell Prior to becoming successful, Egan, Feehily and Filan along with fellow Sligo men Derrick Lacey, Graham Keighron and Michael Garrett, were part of a six-member pop vocal group called Six as One and was later changed to IOYOU in the year 1997. Managed by choreographer Mary
McDonagh along with two other informal managers, they released a single titled "Together Girl Forever". Walsh, the manager of the 1990s boy-band Boyzone, was contacted by Filan's mother and came to know about the group. However, the group did not meet Cowell's approval for a record deal with BMG, and thus changes were needed. Cowell told Walsh, "You are going to have to fire at least three of them. They have great voices, but they are the ugliest band I have ever seen in my life."[8] Three members of the band were told they would not be part of the new group, and auditions were held in Dublin where Byrne and McFadden were recruited. The new group, formed on 3 July 1998, was re-named Westside but as the name was already taken by another band, it was later changed to Westlife. In Westlife Our Story, Byrne revealed he was keen to change the name to West High but the others wanted Westlife. Brian also changed the spelling of his name to Bryan to make it easier to sign autographs. Boyzone singer Ronan Keating was brought in to co-manage the group with Walsh. The band then released an EP titled Swear It Again.
unofficially nicknamed "The No Stools Tour" due to the group's reputation of performing while perched on stools.[9][19] Westlife released World Of Our Own, their third album, in November 2001. "Uptown Girl", "Queen of My Heart" and "World of Our Own" were released as singles, as of which all peaked at No. 1 in the UK.[20][21][22] "Bop Bop Baby" was also released as a single but it peaked at No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2002, Westlife went on their second world tour, the World Of Our Own Tour (In The Round).[9]
Brian McFadden left Westlife for his family and children. The group released their eleventh UK No. 1 single, "Unbreakable", in 2002.[23] Amidst rumours of a split, Westlife released their first greatest hits album in November that same year entitled, Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits Vol. 1 zoomed all the way to No. 1 in the UK. The release was followed by the double a side single, "Tonight/Miss You Nights", which debuted at No. 3 in the UK.[24] At this era, Because Films Inspire... made a TV Documentary titled "Wild Westlife," directed by Iain MacDonald and starred the group itself. It reveals how their musical life was on a daily basis and when on tour.[25] In 2003, Westlife went on to their third world tour, The Greatest Hits Tour, shrugging off rumours of a split.[26] In September 2003, Westlife released "Hey Whatever", which peaked at No. 4 on the UK Charts.[27] Their fourth studio album, Turnaround, was then released in November, earning the group another UK No. 1 album. "Mandy", a cover of the Barry Manilow hit, was released in November 2003. Their version won them their third Record of the Year award in under five years.[28] Their version of Mandy is also considered the highest single to leap to the top (from No. 200 to #1) in UK music history.[29] "Obvious" was released as the final single from the album, charting at #3.[30] On 9 March 2004, just three weeks prior to embarking on their fourth world tour, Brian McFadden left the group to spend more time with his family and work on solo projects. On that day, a press conference was held where all the group's members were present
and gave emotional individual speeches. Brian's final public performance as part of Westlife was at Newcastle Upon Tyne's Powerhouse nightclub on 27 February 2004.[31][32] He subsequently began a solo career, deciding to revert the spelling of his first name back to its original 'Brian', he released his first solo single, "Real To Me" which entered the UK chart at No. 1 and soon after, he released his first solo album, "Irish Son" under Sony Music.[33] He went on to release more singles with moderate success.
The band on their 2006 concert tour This made Westlife the third act (along with Cliff Richard) in the UK to have the most No. 1 singles, tailing behind Elvis Presley (21) and The Beatles (17). Westlife then kicked off their eighth world tour, "The Love Tour", in Perth, Australia.[45] The group then went on to other Australian cities before moving on to South Africa, the UK and Ireland. On 5 November 2007, Westlife released their ninth album, Back Home, which contained nine new original songs along with three cover songs. The album debuted at No. 1 on the UK Music Charts and it was also 2007's fifth biggest selling album in the UK.[46] The first single released from the album was a cover of Michael Bubl's "Home", which peaked at No. 3 in the UK.[47][48] "I'm Already There", not released as a single, managed to chart in the UK based on downloads alone following a performance on an The X Factor episode. On 15 December 2007, they had a two-hour show called The Westlife Show where they performed 10 of their songs, some voted by the fans through online and some from Back Home. It was hosted by Holly Willoughby.[49] This time, Westlife together with Tesco brought out "The Definitive Westlife Quiz" that asked about the whole history about the group.[50] It was participated by thousands of fans worldwide. Months later, "Us Against the World" was announced and released as their second single in UK and Ireland. Before the release of the second single, they embarked on the Back Home Tour on 2008 February 25. This tour marked the first time that the group have travelled and performed to New Zealand, performing four sold-out shows in Auckland, Wellington, New Plymouth and Christchurch. Meanwhile, "Something Right" was released as the second single and "Us Against the World" became the third single in Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Both songs performed well on several music charts.
Clip from their 2008 Back Home concert tour also seen on their 10 Years DVD To mark their tenth year in music, Westlife staged a special 10 Years of Westlife sold-out concert at the world's thirty-third and Europe's fourth biggest stadium,[51] Croke Park, on 1 June 2008.[52] With a capacity of 82 300, it was the group's biggest show to date. Shayne Ward filled in as a support act for the concert,[53] which Kian described to be of a "pop extravaganza".[54] Shane confirmed that a corresponding live concert DVD will be released. The group announced that they will be on hiatus for a year after their Back Home Tour[55] and that there would not be an album release in 2008 as they would be spending more time on the production of their tenth album.[56] As promised, the group's official website confirmed on 27 September 2008 the release of a DVD on 24 November 2008 entitled 10 Years of Westlife Live at Croke Park Stadium which went straight to No. 1 on UK, Ireland, South African, Hong Kong and New Zealand Music DVD charts. As the group ended another successful tour, Louis Walsh announced in the show Xpose that 1 July 2008 is the official start of the longest hiatus of the group so far. He said that it will be a one-year break, from that day up to 1 July 2009. On 13 December 2008, while on a break, Westlife made an unexpected appearance on X Factor Final Performance Night where they performed "Flying Without Wings" with JLS. After the presentation, Shane and Nicky were interviewed on Xtra Factor with Ronan Keating and Stephen Gately of Boyzone. As JLS performed also "I'm Already There", Westlife's version of the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at No. 63 while a new entry on Ireland Singles Chart at No. 47 due to extensive downloads only. On the last week of January 2009, a DVD entitled The Karaoke Collection was released. It contains some of their music video hits. In 27 February 2009 issue of Herald Ireland, Louis revealed that Simon already picked three new songs which he reckons to be instant hits. Nicky spread the word last 8 March 2009 that Westlife will come back to music charts when they start recording in June 2009 when he received his VIP Style Awards as the Most Stylish Man on Xpose, TV3. On 18 March 2009, they won the Best Irish Pop Act on 2009 Meteor Awards for the ninth consecutive time.
Their tenth album, Where We Are, was released on 30 November 2009 in the UK and peaked at No. 2 on both Irish and UK Albums Chart. The new single "What About Now", was released a few weeks earlier on 23 October 2009, with digital downloads being available the day before. The said single peaked at# 2 on both Irish and UK Singles Chart. Daughtry's original version of the song gained exposure on the audition rounds of The X Factor prior to Westlife's release. They were also part of the Haiti charity single in early 2010, "Everybody Hurts", an R.E.M. cover which was organised by Cowell.[57] The tour in support of this album is called "The Where We Are Tour". The video album for this said tour will be released in DVD and Blu-ray format in 29 November 2010.[58][59] The eleventh album was recorded and processed with songwriter/producer John Shanks in London and Los Angeles. It was entirely produced by Shanks.[60] On 19 September 2010, the single "Safe" was heard first on X Factor as a snippet; the group later performed the song on the show on 14 November 2010. The single was released on 14 November 2010. It debuted on the UK Singles Chart on 21 November 2010 at No. 10, giving the group their 25th Top 10 single in the United Kingdom. It is also their lowest charting lead single to date in the country. The new album named Gravity was released on a 22 November 2010.[61] It went to No. 1 on Ireland and No. 3 on UK. On March 2011, they started their eleventh major concert tour, Gravity Tour. On this tour marked the first time that the group travelled to Oman, Namibia, Guangzhou and Vietnam for concerts.
there is, the group will make an official announcement. Until then, please disregard any websites claiming they have tickets on sale this Friday."[72] A UK Tour was first officially announced on October 18 with dates confirmed for May 2012 and it was titled as The Greatest Hits Tour or The Farewell Tour. The said tour was have sold-out in minutes. Stereoboard.com added: "After a massive rush, tickets for Westlife's May 2012 tour were snapped-up almost immediately as fans flocked to the Internet to try and get their hands on tickets for the final performances of the legendary Irish boy band."[73] As part of it, ITV commissioned a unique one-off music spectacular will mark Westlifes final TV appearance as the pop giants take to the stage to sing some of their greatest hits, it will be entitled "Westlife: For the Last Time".[74] Another show entitled "The Westlife Show: Live" to be broadcast from Studio One of London Studios on the same channel on 1 November 2011.[75] Then they will have a live guesting on The Late Late Show later.[76] On 19 October 2011, Westlife officially announced they were splitting after a Greatest Hits album and a farewell tour.[7] They described the split as an "amicable" one and they want a "well-earned break".[77][78][79] Later reports from Daily Record however said there was an "irreparable rift" in the band,[80] but was later denied by a source close to the band saying: "There's no bad blood in the band, they're still great pals. But all good things come to an end and they are all keen to do their own thing."[81] Later, the band also denied it and called the split as a "united decision".[82] A more comprehensive story behind the split was discussed by Daily Mail and Daily Star.[83][84] A second statement was issued through their official site, saying the fans were continuing to be the best support system.[85] Raidi Teilifs ireann made a collage of "Westlife - through the years" to mark the special occasion.[86] Keith Duffy said he was surprised to hear of the split.[87] Mayor of Sligo Rosaleen O'Grady, who gave the lads the Freedom of Sligo, was reported to be in shock.[88] While The Irish Times defended the band saying: Westlife remain one of Irelands best-selling musical acts. They set a new chart record for having their first seven singles go to number one and had massive merchandising sales, but to most music critics they had no musical merit whatsoever, specialising as they did in syrupy cover versions targeted at a pre- and young teen market. [...] The boyband genre is one of the most difficult and demanding areas in the music industry, with many casualties who have been unable to keep up with the workload, the clean-cut image and the derision from serious music fans. Within the parameters of the genre, Westlife achieved excellence. Having a 14-year career in boyband circles would be the equivalent of a rock band having a 35-year career.[89] Fans immediately took to social networks to comment on the decision to break up; some fans describe themselves as feeling "devastated", "the day the music died."[90] Some media predicted a possible reunion in the future.[79] However, Westlife scuppered that speculation by vowing they would never reunite.[91] People can leave their messages on Twitter by using #WestlifeForever and #Westlife. It trended on Worldwide, Ireland (Dublin), Indonesia (Bandung, Jakarta), Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, New Zealand, and UK (Birmingham, Glasgow, London, Manchester) categories.[92] A live stream Q&A was announced for 28 October 2011 as a thank you to their fans,[93] but was moved to 3 November due to schedule conflicts.[94]
Longevity
The band have been in the music industry for 13 years since they signed up. With huge popularity on-hand, numerous reports had spread out that the band have broken up or taking a hiatus especially when they released a greatest hits compilation album in 2002, McFadden left the band in 2004, and in a year-off recording in 2008 where Egan has insisted that they are not splitting up for good, telling The Sun: "The minute people hear we're taking a break, they are going to say we are splitting up for good - which is not true. "Myself and Jodi (Albert) are going to go and do some travelling and I'm sure the other guys have plans as well. It will be the first time in years that there hasn't been a Westlife album vying for the Christmas number one, which will be a bit weird, but I think we have earned the time off. We love Westlife and people still want to hear us, so we are not going anywhere. Why would we give that up?".[95] In 15 June 2011, they cleared up the another hiatus report and Egan insists he and his bandmates have no plans to put the group on hold and they're working on new material and any quotes about us taking a break are simply not true."[96] In August 2011, Byrne says that after their second greatest hits they might not come back with a new 2012 studio album because it might feel too soon. He added: "We are out of contract at the moment which is a great position to be in because if this album does well we're looking to the future, like a footballer you are free to talk to anybody.", "I would say we'd probably look at what's on the table and then maybe discuss with a few other people, labels and see what's there and move forward."[97] In October 2011, a source told The Mirror, The boys are pretty knackered, Theyve been constantly working for the past decade and just want time to enjoy what theyve made for themselves before coming back with a brand-new album. Theyre not splitting up its a break. The plan is to come back with full force after that.[98]
Vocal ability
The boyband concept is designed to have different parts and roles. Filan, Feehily and McFadden (pre-departure) all took part on the main vocals while Byrne and Egan usually perform the backing vocals and very occasional solos in songs up to the recent date. These are the classifications on vocal abilities: Filan has 'the popular tune' (mid-range to high voice) and thus sings the tenor-like melody most often, whereas Feehily has 'the soulful voice' and can go from quite low baritone notes through to a very high tenor voice. He sometimes sings falsetto. Byrne has 'the husky voice' and can sing high harmonies effortlessly, while Egan has 'the rocky voice' and usually does low harmonies.
Instruments
Westlife's main key instruments are their vocals. However some of them can play musical instruments, most notably Egan who plays piano, drums and guitar (he can be seen playing piano in the videoclip for "Angel"), and Feehily also plays piano. During their gigs and concert tours, they are accompanied by a band, acoustic and rock, and do not usually play instruments onstage.
Songwriting
Over years of their career, Westlife's music has evolved from teen pop to a pop sound, with an emphasis on ballads. Most of the group's hits have been composed by experienced songwriters,
most notably Steve Mac and Wayne Hector. For the band's list of own songs composed, see Songs written.
The group's influences are Michael Jackson, Backstreet Boys, and Boyzone while pop is their main music influence. They are adored by many people even celebrities like Chris Martin of Coldplay, Alexandra Burke and Nadine Coyle of Girls Aloud.[101][102][103] The band have "tribute bands" performing their songs like Envy, Westlives,[104] That's Life,[105] and Westlike. On the other hand, Westlife also paid tribute to their co-boybands as one of the tour setlist in 2007.[106] Later pop bands such as One Direction, The Wanted, and JLS expressed such adoration for the group over their respective music careers.
US Market
Despite their success in some parts of the world, Westlife have been unable to break into the US market. Their debut single and music video "Swear It Again", released in the US in 2000, was a hit on mainstream radio and the band even made an appearance on MTV's Total Request Live. The song was No. 75 on the Billboard Hot 100 year end chart of 2000. A US edition of their debut album, Westlife was also released. In 2002, an attempt was made to promote and release a US version of World Of Our Own but was scaled back as the band decided to concentrate promotions in other foreign markets where they had a larger fan base. This was a surprising decision as the band did not maximise the potential and opportunity available when the two most prominent boy bands in the US, the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, went on hiatus that year. The Westlife hit song "Flying Without Wings" peaked at No.2 in the USA when American Idol Season 2 winner Ruben Studdard recorded and released it as his debut single. The band was disappointed when they heard of the news as they were planning on bringing that song to the American audiences in the near future. In 2003, Westlife went to Nashville to film a TV documentary. While they were there, they gave a live performance of the song "Daytime Friends", originally by country music legend Kenny Rogers.
Collaborations
Westlife is signed to the management of major record label Sony Music under Syco Music (20022011) and RCA Records (2011present). Louis Walsh, Simon Cowell and others comprise the group's management and production team now and then.
The present manager of Westlife, Louis Walsh. The group has recorded studio and live performances with some of the most renowned music acts: Mariah Carey ("Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"), Lulu ("Back at One"), Joanne Hindley ("The Way You Look Tonight"), Diana Ross ("When You Tell Me That You Love Me"), Donna Summer ("No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"), and Delta Goodrem ("All Out of Love"). They have also collaboorated on "If I Had Words" with The Vards, "I Have A Dream" with Indonesian child-star Sherina, and "My Love" with Amr Diab. These songs were also recorded and included on the various albums. In 2002, Westlife re-recorded their hit song "Flying Without Wings" with Cristian Castro and with Korean singer BoA as two separate duets. Westlife has performed live duets with some of the biggest names in the music industry including: Sinad O'Connor ("Silent Night"), Donny Osmond ("Crazy Horses"), Mariah Carey ("Never Too Far/Hero Medley"), Secret Garden ("You Raise Me Up"), Lionel Richie ("Easy"), Ronan Keating ("The Dance"), Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries ("Little Drummer Boy"), Roy Orbison ("Pretty Woman"), Delta Goodrem ("All Out Of Love"), Raymond Quinn ("That's Life"), Leehom Wang ("You Raise Me Up"), Mary Black ("Walking in the Air"), Kevin Spacey ("Fly Me to the Moon"), Do ("Heaven") , Boyzone ("No Matter What"), Various artists "AllStars" ("That's What Friends Are For"; "Merry Christmas Everybody"; "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday") and even their fathers ("That's Life"). They also performed as a guest star with previous x factor contestants such as JLS where they performed their hit ' Flying without wings '. In an interview with December 2010 isuue of OK Magazine, when the band was asked who they would like to duet with if they could pick anyone, they chose Beyonc and Christina Aguilera.[107] They find interest in collaborating also with Tinie Tempah, Boyzone, Take That, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood.[108] Before they were reported to have recording as a duet with Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Michael Jackson, Lionel Ritchie, Julio Iglesias, and Bryan Adams.[109][110] Some artists expressed the love to work the band like Chipmunk and boxer Mike Tyson.[111] While artist like Hot Chip wants to cover their songs.[112] Some well-known music artists also recorded the group's songs in reality like Ronan Keating, Will Young, Shayne Ward, Ruben Studdard. (See Songs covered by other artists) Aside from Steve Mac and Wayne Hector, the group has had opportunities to work on their original songs with many well-known songwriters/producers including Savan Kotecha, Rami Yacoub, Per Magnusson, Pete Waterman, David Kreuger, Max Martin, Anders Johansson, Josef Larossi, Jorgen Elofsson, Andreas Carlsson, Arnthor Birgisson, Kristian Lundin, Jake Schulze, Diane Warren, and most recently, Ryan Tedder, Chris Braide, Sam Watters, Louis Biancaniello, Steve Anderson, Steve Robson, Ruth-Anne Cunningham and John Shanks. For the full list, see External songwriters. Long-time collaborator Wayne Hector once defined the essence of Westlife songwriting:
"If you want to write a song for Westlife, youve got to have a lyric that connects on a basic level. Weve always thought the reason Westlife songs have been so
successful is because its about situations that everybody goes through. We werent trying to be too clever about it, we were trying to be emotional."[113]
For their remixed songs, Rokstone, Orphanz, Ashanti Boyz, Wideboys, Soul Seekerz, and Jim Steinman have already worked for the group on some of their single releases. Some of the music video directors who have worked with Westlife are: Cameron Casey, Wayne Isham, Nigel Dick, Stuart Gosling, Phil Griffin, Antti Jokinen, David Mould, Alex Hemming, Philip Andelman, Sean De Sparengo, Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini. Shayne Ward, No Way Out, K-otic, Natural, Six, Totally Spies, D-Side and Lauren Waterworth, Bellefire, The Conway Sisters, V, Twen2y4se7en, Zoo, Kwest, Pop, Sub Bass 5, Traphic, Mark Dakriet, 4th Ba5e, Reel, Peter Andre, Girls Aloud, Eton Road, Gareth Gates, Roxanne, Alsou, The MacDonald Brothers, Billiam, Cushh, The Unconventionals, Dyyce, Lady Nada, Code 5, Annabel Fay, Hope, The Fuel, Wow, Glenn Cal, Parade, Jedward, JLS, and Wonderland were some who supported them on different tours. Wonderland are a girlband co-managed by Westlife member Kian and Louis Walsh. The band performed to famous people such as Pope John Paul II,[114] U.S. President Barack Obama,[115][116][117] the Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah with family[118] and Queen Elizabeth II.[119][120]
Philanthropy
While each member of the group has had their own individual humanitarian advocacies and activities, Westlife has been supporting various projects for a charity cause from the start. One of which was when the group re-recorded "I Have A Dream" with Indonesian star Sherina for a
UNICEF fund raising. They are involved also on the Helping For Haiti charity single that was released 8 February 2010 on UK. Aside from that, the group released their cover version of "Uptown Girl" as a Comic Relief single, which was one of their biggest selling singles to date. On 4 November 2005, they performed together with Christina Aguilera and Diana Ross at CocaCola Dome in Johannesburg, South Africa for The Unite of the Stars Gala Banquet charity concert that supports four charities: the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, Unite Against Hunger, St. Marys Hospital and the Topsy Foundation. They also performed live for charity on Sports Relief, Macmillan Cancer Support, Cro, Western Alzheimers, ODwyer Cheshire Home, Mayo Cancer Support Group, Marie Keating Foundation, Outward Bound Trust, ChildLine, Children in Need, Sheffield's Children Hospital.[126][127][128][129] They've participated also in Royal British Legion and Galway's Irish Water Safety Campaign by doing an advertisement.[130][131] They had also helped for auctions on Meningitis Research Foundation, Carlton Celebrity Auction (for Centrepoint (for the homeless), the N.S.P.C.C., and The Samaritans), Zutto charity painting, Pushing The Envelope (for National Literacy Trust) and Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS).[132][133][134][135][136] They've visited also Great Osmond Street Hospital for charity.[137][138] They've been involved also with the following organisations: Free Tibet, Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID), Cancer Research UK, Byrne for Heart Attack and asthma awareness campaigns, Daily Stars Reclaim Our Streets crusade, Filan for Irish Red Cross (by Sligo Rover's Showgrounds football match), Byrne for Oxfam's East Africa Famine appeal (by Celtic v Manchester United football match), Filan and Byrne for Soccer Aid, JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am, One World Beat, Egan for Strandhill Indonesian Relief Fund (SIRF, in aid of the South Asian tsunami victims), World Food Programme (WFP), Muscle Help Foundation, Feehily for Aware, Byrne for Childrens Hospice South West (by Truro charity football match), Global Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign and Real Man campaign. They are also included as ambassadors of The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC).[139] As part of IPSCC, Feehily signed up for their anti-bullying campaign, "Join the Fight for Children's Rights".[140][141][142][143][144][145][146][147][148][149][150][151][152][153][154]
Discography
Main Article: Westlife discography, Westlife songlist, Westlife videography
World of Our Own (2001) Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (2002) Turnaround (2003) Allow Us to Be Frank (2004) Face to Face (2005) The Love Album (2006) Back Home (2007) Where We Are (2009) Gravity (2010) Greatest Hits (2011)