Westlife discography
Irish boy band Westlife have released twelve studio albums, ten compilation albums, one live album, nineteen video albums, forty-one singles, thirteen promotional singles, and forty-five music videos. The band was signed under the likes of Simon Cowell, and Clive Davis and under record labels' BMG, S Records, Arista Records, Sony BMG, Syco Music, Sony Music Entertainment and RCA Records from 1998 to 2012, Universal Music Group and Virgin EMI Records in 2018 to 2020, Warner Music and East West Records in 2021 to 2022, Tencent Music Entertainment in 2024 and Sony Music in 2025-present. Their biggest-selling album is their first Greatest Hits compilation, followed by Coast to Coast, with six of their albums selling one million copies or more. Their biggest selling video is Where Dreams Come True, which has sold 240,000 copies to date.
In 2012, the Official Charts Company listed Westlife 34th amongst the biggest-selling singles artists in British music history. They are currently the sixteenth biggest group of all time overall. They are also currently ranked twenty-sixth with the most number ones albums of all time. They have had 36 number-one albums worldwide. This earned them the following Guinness World Records: first to achieve six consecutive number-one singles in the UK, most singles to debut at number one on the UK chart, and the top-selling album group in the United Kingdom of the 21st century. Despite their success, Westlife never managed to break into the United States, achieving only one hit single in 2000, their debut single "Swear It Again", which peaked at number 20 on Billboard Hot 100 and was certified Gold.
As of July 2024, the group has sold more than 55 million records worldwide, as well as amassing more than a billion global streams and one billion YouTube views.