The Irish pop outfit are back for ‘The Twenty Tour’ celebrating 20 Years of Westlife and they will perform across the UK and Ireland. Read more here:

The UK’s top selling album group of the 21st century, Westlife, today announce that they will be touring the UK and Ireland for the first time in seven years next May, June and July. Tickets go on sale on Thursday 25 October 2018 at 9am (UK Time) at LiveNation.co.uk

Celebrating Westlife‘s 20th anniversary, ‘The Twenty Tour’ will kick off in Belfast on Saturday 25th May 2019, with the run of live shows ending in Dublin on Friday 5th July 2019.

The shows will see the global pop kings perform brand new songs, alongside their greatest hits and all 14 of their UK No.1 hits including as ‘Swear It Again’, ‘Flying Without Wings’, ‘You Raise Me Up’ and ‘Unbreakable’.

Shane, Nicky, Mark and Kian announced their return to music two weeks ago to a frenzy of media coverage and social media activity. The band have signed a new record deal with Virgin EMI, and will release new music soon.

These shows will be their first as a group since they played Croke Park in Dublin on 23rd June 2012.

Westlife have sold over 55 million records worldwide, and are the only band to have their first 7 singles enter the UK chart at No.1. They also have the most singles of any artist to debut at No.1 in the UK. Overall the band have had an incredible 14 No.1 singles, behind only Elvis Presley and The Beatles. They have had 33 No.1 albums worldwide.

As a live act Westlife have sold 5 million concert tickets worldwide. They still hold the record for the most shows played at The SSE Arena, Wembley – 28. They sold out Croke Park Stadium in a record breaking 5 minutes. They also hold the record for the most shows played at The SSE Arena, Belfast by any band – 50.

Fans that pre-order a copy of the forthcoming new Westlife album from the official store before 12pm BST on Monday 22nd October 2018 will receive an exclusive pre-sale code for early access tickets to the 2019 UK & Ireland tour.

Pre-sale starts at 9.00am (UK Time) Tuesday 23rd October with general on-sale tickets available from Thursday 25th October 2018 at 9.00 am (UK Time).

UK & Ireland Official Store Link – https://shop.westlife.com/

Pete Sargeant