Greatest Hits (Westlife album)

Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by Westlife
Released	18 November 2011
Genre	Pop pop rock teen pop
Label	RCA Sony
Producer	John Shanks Steve Mac Per Magnusson David Kreuger David Foster Pete Waterman Steve Robson TTW Rami Yacoub Quiz & Larossi Carl Falk Arnthor Birgisson
Westlife chronology
Gravity (2010) Greatest Hits (2011) The Love Songs (2014)
Singles from Greatest Hits
"Lighthouse" Released: 14 November 2011

Greatest Hits is the second greatest hits album release by Irish boy band Westlife. It was released on 18 November 2011 by RCA Records and Sony Music. Greatest Hits follows their previous compilation Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1 (2002) and was their last before their split in the months following its release. The album is the group's first album not under Syco Music and not under the tutelage of Simon Cowell, having left Syco and Cowell in March 2011. The album contains 14 singles spanning throughout the band's career and 4 new songs produced by John Shanks. The standard edition of the album contains eighteen tracks; an expanded deluxe edition features a bonus disc and a DVD containing nearly all of the band's music videos up to that point. The album's lead single "Lighthouse" was released on 14 November 2011.

Greatest Hits received mixed reviews from music critics, with some reviewers praising the compilation's structure, while others disliked the group's musical style. The compilation reached No. 4 in the UK Albums Chart, and has sold more than 900,000 units being certified 3× Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry as of June 2024.^[1] The album debuted at the No. 1 position on the Irish Albums Chart and performed moderately elsewhere.