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Westlife
Westlife in 2021 Left to right: Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan and Nicky Byrne
Background information
Origin	Sligo and Dublin, Ireland
Genres	Pop dance-pop teen pop
Years active	1998–2012 2018–present
Labels	Sony Music BMG RCA Syco Universal Music Virgin EMI East West Warner Music Tencent Music
Members	Nicky Byrne Kian Egan Shane Filan Mark Feehily
Past members	Brian McFadden
Website	westlife.com

Westlife are an Irish pop group formed in Dublin in 1998. The group consists of members Nicky Byrne, Shane Filan, Kian Egan and Mark Feehily. Brian McFadden was a member of the band before leaving to pursue a solo career in March 2004. The group disbanded in 2012 and later reunited in 2018.

In Ireland, the group has 11 number-one albums, 16 number-one singles, and 34 Top 50 singles. They have sold over 55 million records and are holders of four Guinness World Records.^[1][2][3][4] Westlife has received numerous accolades including one World Music Award, two Brit Awards, four MTV Awards, and four Record of the Year Awards.

The group has released twelve studio albums: four as a five-piece and eight as a four-piece. They rose to fame with their debut international self-titled studio album, Westlife (1999). It was followed by Coast to Coast (2000), World of Our Own (2001), and Turnaround (2003). Following the departure of McFadden, the group released the cover albums ...Allow Us to Be Frank (2004) and The Love Album (2006), the albums Face to Face (2005), Back Home (2007), Where We Are (2009), and Gravity (2010), followed by a six-year split. After reforming in 2018, the quartet released the studio albums Spectrum (2019) and Wild Dreams (2021).