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Allow Us to Be Frank, Face to Face, The Love Album, and Back Home: 2004–08
Less than a month after McFadden’s departure, the group kicked off their “Turnaround Tour”. A live version from the said tour of “Flying Without Wings” was released as an official UK download, earning them the title of the very first UK Downloads #1.[citation needed] In September 2004, they were about to perform on the world-renowned World Music Awards as they were recognized as the Best Irish Act of that year but the little did know that it wasn’t broadcast worldwide unfortunately.[36] They then put out a Rat Pack-inspired album, …Allow Us to Be Frank, peaking at #3. No singles were released in the UK from this album. “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head”, accompanied with a music video, was released as a physical single in other European countries. “Smile” and “Fly Me to the Moon”, with music videos as well, were released as digital downloads only. Prior to the album release, Westlife scouted for “the perfect fan” to help promote their album from their one-season special show “She’s the One”, presented by Kate Thornton. After X Factor-style auditions, they found Joanne Hindley, who recorded “The Way You Look Tonight” with the group. To mark this special collaboration, a special programme was televised, showing auditions and live performances. Performers included Joanne, Westlife members’ fathers and glamour model Katie Price, Il Divo and Kevin Spacey. Westlife continued to tour Europe as part of their “The Number Ones Tour”, before taking a four-month break from work.On 4 May 2005, Westlife lost their battle for European trademark from the German trademark “West”.
In October 2005, Westlife returned with their comeback single, “You Raise Me Up”, which was taken from their Face to Face album. On 5 November 2005, both the album and the single were at No. 1 in the UK at the same time at the second week of the single. It was the first time that Westlife have held both top album and single position in the same week.

“You Raise Me Up” was awarded as their fourth Record of the Year in UK for 2005. In December that year, the group released “When You Tell Me That You Love Me”, a duet with Diana Ross, as the second single and it debuted at its peak position of #2. Westlife then released a third single, “Amazing”, which debuted at No. 4 and marked as the group’s lowest-selling single yet. After that, Westlife embarked on the “Face to Face Tour”, travelling extensively to the UK, Ireland, Australia and Asia. This tour marked the first time that Westlife travelled to mainland China for a concert. In late 2006, Westlife signed a brand new five-album deal with Sony BMG. Their eighth album, The Love Album, was a “love” concept album which consisted of popular love song covers. The album outsold other compilation albums by Oasis, The Beatles, and U2 in its first week of release and went straight to #1. The first single from The Love Album was a cover version of Bette Midler’s classic, “The Rose”, which became their 14th UK No. 1 single

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Westlife History

Westlife were an Irish boy band formed in 1998. They disbanded in 2012 after finishing their farewell tour. The group’s line-up was Shane Filan,Mark Feehily, Kian Egan, and Nicky Byrne. Brian McFadden was part of the group until 2004. Westlife had sold over 45 million records worldwide which includes studio albums, singles, video release, and compilation albums.The band were originally signed by Simon Cowell and were managed by Louis Walsh. The group had accumulated 14 number-one singles in the United Kingdom, the third-highest in UK history, tying withCliff Richard and only behind The Beatles and Elvis Presley, and 26 top ten singles over their 14 year career They are also the most frequent act to win The Record of the Year, the only music award in the UK to be chosen by the public, with four awards. Despite their worldwide success, Westlife had been unable to break into the US market, having only one hit single, “Swear It Again”, which peaked in 2000

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On 1 June 2008, Westlife marked their tenth anniversary with a concert in Croke Park, Dublin and had more than 83,000 fans attending the special occasion. Music Week revealed on their website that Westlife were the official third top touring act within the years 2005–2008, while they were seventh top touring act of 2008.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. In August 2011, it was reported in the Irish Examiner that the profits of the band’s firm grew five-fold in 2010. In May 2012, Westlife was voted the world’s best boyband in an MTV competition of more than 12 million votes. On 19 October 2011, Westlife announced they were to split after The Greatest Hits Tour in 2012 following the release of their Greatest Hits album on 21 November 2011. Their last ever concert, on 23 June 2012 at Croke Park Stadium, Dublin, Ireland, was sold out to 85,000 people in just 5 minutes. It was also screened live in cinemas worldwide. Due to high demand, another date was added on the same venue on June 22