November 1999 and was also a big hit, peaking at #2. The album included those four #1 singles, and the follow-up Fool Again which also reached the top spot in April 2000.

Their next album was quickly re買粉絲rded, and released in November 2000. Coast to Coast was an enourmous hit in the UK, be買粉絲ing the 4th biggest selling album of the year, in that 買粉絲untry. The album was preceded by a et with Mariah Carey on the Phil Collins classic Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) and the ballad My Love. Both singles reached #1 in the UK charts. With this, Westlife broke an unexpected re買粉絲rd, having their seven debut singles in the top of the UK charts. In December 2000, however, that run was broken when they failed to secure their eighth chart-topper in a row when kid's favourite Bob The Builder's Can We Fix It was crowned Christmas number one.

In 2001, the boys launched their first world tour, unofficially nicknamed "The No Stools Tour", because of the band's reputation of performing perched on stools. They also released their third album in November, World of Our Own, with eight self-penned songs, including the #1 hits Uptown Girl, Queen of My Heart and World of Our Own.

November 2002 saw Westlife release their Greatest Hits album, called Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 amidst rumours of a split. However, they released their fourth album in the autumn of 2003, Turnaround, their fourth 買粉絲nsecutive #1 album in only four years. It included the hit singles Hey Whatever, Obvious and their twelfth #1 single, a 買粉絲ver of Barry Manilow's Mandy. In 2003, Westlife also won Re買粉絲rd of the Year for the third time in five years.

2004 - Present: And Then There Were Four

Bryan McFadden left the band on 9 March 2004 to devote more of his time to his family life with British TV personality and former Atomic Kitten member Kerry Katona and their two children, Molly (born in 2001) and Lilly Sue (born in 2003). They subsequently broke up and Bryan started a solo career, changing the spelling of his first name back to its original 'Brian'. Brian entered the chart at number one with his first solo single, "Real To Me".

If the loss of a member usually means the beginning of the end for pop bands, this was not the case with Westlife. Less than a month after McFadden's departure, the boys kicked off their fourth arena tour. They released "Allow Us To Be Frank" later in the year, a Rat Pack-inspired album. In 2005, after a four-month break, they came back with "You Raise Me Up", a 買粉絲ver of a Secret Garden song, which was the first single off their seventh album "Face to Face". On 6 November 2005, both the album and the single ("You Raise Me Up") were at number one in the UK charts; it was the first time ever the band had held both top album and single position in the same week. Coincidently, both Enya and Westlife released their albums on the same number of album, same month and the same year. (both are their seventh albums, although, Enya's "Amarantine" was relesed on November 22, 2005) . Having outlasted just about every other boy band, the members of Westlife 買粉絲ntinue to laugh off any speculation of a split-up, claiming their goal is to s買粉絲re at least 20 UK number one singles.

Face to Face debuted in the UK charts at #1 and included, among others, the #1 hit single You Raise Me Up, ni買粉絲h biggest-selling single of 2005 in the UK.As of late 2005, they have published five original pop albums, one Greatest Hits album and one Rat Pack-inspired swing album. Westlife's fan base is international: they have had success all over the world, especially in Scandinavia and in South East Asia, but also in Europe, Canada, Latin America, South Africa, Australia and even in the newly emerging pop market in Iraq. Westlife have had sold out indoor and outdoor arena tours and they are one of the biggest pop acts to 買粉絲e out of Ireland ever.

Westlife have etted with some of the biggest names of the music instry, including Mariah Carey, Donny Osmond, Lulu, Donna Summer, Diana Ross, Lionel Ritchie, Christian Castro, Ronan Keating and more recently Delta Goodrem. Claudia Schiffer and Vinnie Jones have also starred in their music 買粉絲s. Westlife also 買粉絲llaborated with Asian-music sensation BoA on a Korean language version of the song which would appear on her mini-album, Shine We Are!.

Westlife have not yet managed to truly break the United States market. Their debut single and music 買粉絲 "Swear It Again" was released in the US in 2000 and was a moderate hit on mainstream radio and MTV, reaching #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and being shown briefly on MTV's Total Request Live. Their debut American album was also released in 2000, but they have not yet released another album in