Westlife
and Spice Girls vie for number one spot
Irish pop sensations Westlife are aiming to break their own
record with a  seventh
number one British single My Love this weekend, knocking the
Spice Girls’ Holler, Holler off the top spot. However,
the group denied reports of a spat with Posh Spice Victoria
Beckham over who would be top of the pops.
Speaking in Dublin, Westlife member Kian Egan said the reported
confrontation at a London nightclub had been purely light-hearted
and that the two were “laughing about it.” Both bands
have new albums released — Westlife’s Coast to Coast
and the Spice Girls’ Forever — but the Irish boy-band
are not worried about taking on the all-girl supergroup. “The
fact that we are being put up against them is flattering. They
have got more to lose than us,” Egan told Britain’s
top-selling Sun tabloid. Westlife said in Dublin they feel frustrated
by this repeated emphasis and speculation on the number one
spot. “A lot of people think we release records to get
to number one but it’s more because we enjoy what we are
doing,” said Egan.
Westlife burst onto the pop scene in April 1999 when their debut
single Swear it Again! rocketed to the top of the British charts
and have now clocked up six number ones in just 18 months. The
band attribute much of their success to producer Steve Mac,
who has worked with them from the beginning and encourages them
to maintain a consistent style based around ballads and cover
versions. However, they said they were planning to up the pace.
“Steve Mac has created the Westlife sound,” said band
member Mark Feehily, “it’s frustrating to do one type
of music all the time. We definitely feel like going a bit mad,
but you can’t disturb the flow.”
The band said their new album included some up-beat tracks and
that fans can expect more dynamism from their forthcoming world
tour. “We wanted to do some great uptempos,” said
Shane, “and I’m sure we will surprise a lot of people.”
Egan said the band’s next goal was to crack the lucrative
but tough U.S. market. “I have absolutely no doubt we will
crack America. We have the right attitude and the right songs,”
he told the Sun.
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