Snow Patrol's two most recent albums, 2008's A Hundred Million Suns and 2011's Fallen Empires have both reached the top 10 on the U.S. "Chasing Cars" earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song and became one of the biggest U.K. pop hit single "Run," but it was the follow-up, 2006' s Eyes Open and the single "Chasing Cars" that turned the group into international superstars. Snow Patrol did not have significant commercial success until their major label debut album Final Straw in 2003.
The members of Snow Patrol are Irish, but they hail from Northern Ireland instead of the Irish Republic. Photo by Stephen Shugerman / Getty Images In April 2018, the group announced that they would break up permanently after the release of one more studio album, a tribute to Stephen Gately, and the concert tour. Boyzone planned a 25th-anniversary concert tour for 2018. However, they have failed to have significant hit singles off either album. They followed it with BZ20 in 2013 that climbed to #6. Stephen Gately, one of the group's two lead vocalists, died suddenly in 2009.īoyzone rallied to release the #1 charting U.K. Boyzone came back together in 2008 and earned two more top 10 hits. It was followed by 16 consecutive top 5 hit singles in the U.K. The group signed a major label contract in 1994 and their first single, a cover of the Four Seasons' "Working My Way Back To You," reached #3 at home in Ireland. They soon became one of the world's most successful boy bands. Eventually, producers narrowed the applicants down to the membership that became Boyzone. The boy band Boyzone began in 1993 when manager Louis Walsh placed advertisements for applicants to take part in an "Irish Take That." More than 300 applicants responded, and they all sang George Michael's "Careless Whispers" for the initial audition. "Everything to Me" went to #14 in the U.K. Shane Filan also released a significant pop hit single. Three of his solo singles have reached the top 10 on the U.K. Brian McFadden has experienced the greatest success. In a 2016 interview, group member Shane Filan said, while there were no official plans, he wouldn't rule out a reunion at some point in the future.Īll Westlife members have released solo albums. Westlife released ten consecutive top 3 charting studio albums in the U.K. The group had their first big break in 1998 opening for Boyzone and Backstreet Boys in Dublin. New auditions resulted in adding two new group members. They came to the attention of Irish manager Louis Walsh, and Simon Cowell expressed interest in signing them but insisted on cutting three members.
Westlife began as a group called Six To One that changed their name to IOYOU.
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