In 2012, the Official Charts Company listed Westlife 34th amongst the biggest-selling singles artist, 16th amongst the biggest selling groups, and 14th with most top ten hits all the highest for a boy band and a pop group in British music history. The group have accumulated 14 number-one singles as a lead artist as well as having eight number-one albums in the United Kingdom, making them Ireland's most prolific chart-toppers.
They are also currently ranked 19th with the most number-one albums of all time and sixth highest band in the list. According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Westlife has been certified for 13.1 million albums, 1.3 million video albums, and 10.4 million singles, with a total of more than 24 million combined sales in the UK. They have the second most certifications for a boy band in the UK Singles Chart after Take That and the most singles certifications for a pop band on the UK number one singles artists chart since The Beatles. They are the top act with most Number 1 debuts on the UK Singles Chart, with all 14 of their chart-toppers landing there in their first week. After eight years, the quartet group released their eleventh studio album, Spectrum, in 2019, followed by their twelfth studio album, Wild Dreams, in 2021. After a hiatus of studio recording for almost one year in 2008, they regrouped and released the studio albums Where We Are (2009), and Gravity (2010), and the compilation album Greatest Hits (2011). The group released their cover albums Allow Us to Be Frank (2004) and The Love Album (2006) and the studio albums Face to Face (2005) and Back Home (2007).
1 (2002), and Turnaround (2003), which continued the group's success worldwide.
It was followed by Coast to Coast (2000), World of Our Own (2001), Unbreakable – The Greatest Hits Vol. They rose to fame with their debut international self-titled studio album, Westlife (1999). Votes are due, let’s say, May 25th.The group have released eleven studio albums: four as a five-piece and seven as a four-piece. Rate each song on a scale of 0 (Louis) to 10 (Harry), with one 11 (Zayn) if you'd like, then PM them to me. If you notice any glaring omissions, let me know before the 19th and I’ll add them to the list! That’s because there’s a lot of boy band songs out there, so I’ve tried to keep it to the biggest hits - but I know I’ll forget something. Note that voting doesn’t officially open until APRIL 19th. Some of the songs are great, some of them are forgettable, and some of them may make you cringe so hard your eyes roll out of your skull. We’ve got four main categories - Backstreet Boys, N Sync, One Direction, and The Other Ones. Boy bands have been a Thing since the 60s, and though the genre waxes and wanes in popularity, they’ll never go away for good (no matter how much people in the Youtube comments sections want them to). Not everyone can be Grimes or Bjork - sometimes we just want to listen to 3-5 cute but nonthreatening guys singing simple songs about being in love. A boy band (or boyband) is loosely defined as a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation, singing love songs marketed towards young females.