From teenage chart-toppers to a global touring powerhouse, Westlife look back on 25 years of friendship, family, and the fans who have grown up with them - and say Simon Cowell “was right all along” ...

Listen to the new release below. Westlife have released their 25th-anniversary album, 25 – The Ultimate Collection. Serving as a celebration of the group’s 25-year career, it includes hits such as ...

Westlife have embraced AI technology for a new push into the Chinese market. The group’s new single in China was performed entirely in Mandarin by using artificial intelligence. Love + Courage, a ...

In the early 2000s, Ireland was a newly rich country that wanted to be more international looking. Westlife created un-Irish pop for an international market.

From his small music store in the main bus park in Gulu, northern Uganda, Felix Lutalo has provided the soundtrack to 27 years of his region's life. In that time, war has come and gone. The bustling ...

WESTLIFE have shared some “special” throwback clips to mark a major milestone. It has been a quarter of a century since the Irish boyband topped the charts in Ireland as they released their ...

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Westlife broke records with their reunion tour back in 2019 when Shane, Nicky, Mark and Kian performed to over 600,000 fans across 27 countries. And now the Irish pop group are back with a string of ...

One of the world’s biggest boy bands, Westlife, will tour Australia next year for the first time in two decades. And while it ...

The stool-bound ballads are the highlights, but elsewhere the icky lyrics and outdated production keep the man-band well away from cool From Sex and the City to pop-punk to low-slung jeans and tiny ...

Of all the issues of our time, "Whither the boy band?" may not seem the most pressing. The travails of Blue, 5ive, Blazin' Squad et al, and their casts of over-styled teenagers with cartoonish names ...

Westlife have added a second date in the Philippines for its ongoing 25th anniversary world tour after tickets to the first ...