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> > 20 November 2003 'Turnaround' for Westlife's latest album release!
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As you may well know, Westlife's eagerly-anticipated fourth album is released this coming Monday, 24th November. The album is entitled 'Turnaround' and in fact, that may be precisely what it is! Kian states that he thinks it is closer in
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> > 05 October 2003 Greatest Hits DVD and VHS release  The long awaited DVD and VHS from the Greatest Hits Tour is being released tomorrow both in the UK and Germany. Both formats will be including a recording of the concert at the Manchester News Arena on 14th April plus a documentary called " Bring it home " where we'll be able to see footage from the tour, the rehearsals, up till the concerts in Dublin's Lansdowne Road and Sligo's Markievicz Park, the latter representing a dream come true for the Sligo members and also marking the end of the immensely successful sell-out tour, being played in front of more than one million fans in four months all over Europe, UK and Ireland. The TRACKLISTING from the concert is as follows:
Extra on the DVD format are four promo videos, including the video to Hey Whatever, a different edit to the performance of When you're looking like that, some backstage footage with Shane and an interactive game. The lads are launching the DVD exclusively to the media this evening at The Rex cinema in London, together with some fans who won the competition to take part at the event. -- If you wish to buy the DVD on Amazon, click here. For clips from the DVD, check out this site. It includes clips from the concert as well as a short clip from the documentary, together with info on both formats. To read the article from Yahoo music, click here. Let's hope both the DVD and VHS do well and off to the shops from tomorrow! |
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> > 24 September 2003 Hey Whatever: Westlife's 15th top 5 UK charts' hit Hey whatever hit the UK music shops last Monday in the bid for the band's 12th success in reaching the UK number 1 spot, together with being released a friday sooner on their home market. Unfortunately, despite high expectations, Hey whatever only managed to enter the UK single charts at #4, being beaten by the Black Eyed Peas with their song Where is the love, still firmly staying at the top for the 3rd week in a row, the highest new entry on #2, former S Club member Rachel Stevens with her first solo single Sweet dreams my LA Ex and Dido with her hit White flag ending at #3 one more week. UK Single Charts Top 5 as of 21st September 2003 1 WHERE IS THE LOVE BLACK EYED PEAS 2 SWEET DREAMS MY LA EX RACHEL STEVENS 3 WHITE FLAG DIDO 4 HEY WHATEVER WESTLIFE 5 PANDORA'S KISS LOUISE On the Irish charts Hey Whatever reached #2 as the highest new entry, staying behind the Black Eyed Peas which have managed to retain the top position for the fourth consecutive week. Irish single charts Top 3 as of 19th September 1 WHERE IS THE LOVE BLACK EYED PEAS 2 HEY WHATEVER WESTLIFE 3 WHITE FLAG DIDO -- REVIEWS ON THE CHART POSITION On the Dotmusic site they had this to say on the HW chart position: 4 HEY WHATEVER (Westlife) Some way away from the titanic battle taking place for Number One is the second biggest new hit of the week - an unfamiliar situation for the band in question. Westlife's phenomenal chart records are by now the stuff of legend, 11 Number One singles from 13 releases and all since 1999. With all that in mind, and given that their last chart single Queen Of My Heart last December was one of those chart-toppers, you would have expected this brand new single from a forthcoming new album to fly easily to the top. The fact that it has not done so will actually attract less comment than it might have done in the past, Westlife's chart invicibility having been wrecked by the failure of 2002s Bop Bop Baby to chart any higher than Number 5. Nonetheless you now have to question whether the Irish stars are ever going to add to their tally of Number One hits. The fact remains that they are a pop band now well into their fifth year of hitmaking, well beyond the stage that their core teen audience starts to grow out of them. Add to that the suspicion that the Westlife formula is growing more than a little tired amongst even the casual audience and you have the recipe for this to be Westlife's least successful promotional campaign yet. Still, let us not pour too much cold water on this single. It is after all their 14th successsive Top 5 single and a good one at that. It is also an evironmentally friendly track, containing almost 80% recycled material. By that I mean that the song was originally recorded and released by the Irish group Relish under the slightly more wonderful title of Rainbow Zephyr. The Westlife version is more of a revision than a cover, featuring changed lyrics and a new arrangement - and crucially it is this one that has become the hit single. To read the article on their placement on Yahoo music, click here. -- If you still haven't bought the single and wish to help the lads to reach a higher position, you can still buy it online on Amazon. For CD1 click here, while for CD2 here. German fans can already preorder the single from Amazon.de, set for release on Oct 6th. To preorder, click here. |
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