The Love Album (Westlife album)

The Love Album
Studio album by
Westlife
Released13 November 2006
Recorded2006
GenrePop
Length41:53
LanguageEnglish
LabelSony BMG
Producer
Westlife chronology
Face to Face
(2005) 		The Love Album
(2006) 		Back Home
(2007)
Singles from The Love Album
  1. "The Rose"
    Released: 6 November 2006
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Blogcritics[2]
muzyka.onet.pl[3]
Entertainmentwise[4]
Rovi[5]

The Love Album is the seventh studio album by Irish boy band Westlife. It was released in the Philippines on 13 November 2006 and in the UK on 20 November 2006.[6] The first and only single released was a cover of the Bette Midler song "The Rose", which reached No. 1 in Ireland and the UK. It was the band's 14th No. 1 single. The song was first performed at Miss World 2006.

The album debuted at its peak position at No. 1 on the UK Charts, selling 219,662 copies in the UK that week.[7] It also spent one week at number two and two weeks at number three. One of those number-three weeks have the highest sales for that said peak for a week in the whole year of 2006. It re-entered at number 17 at the Official UK Budget Albums Chart in November 2009. The album also appeared in the list of best album sales of Hong Kong in 2007.[8]

Their cover version of "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You", which is included in the deluxe version of the album, has been viewed 100 million times on YouTube.[9]

  1. ^ The Love Album at AllMusic
  2. ^ Blogcritics review Archived 18 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "muzyka.onet.pl review". Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Page not found - EntertainmentWise". {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  5. ^ "Listen to The Love Album by Westlife – Album Reviews, Credits, and Awards". AllRovi. 6 November 2006. Retrieved 11 January 2012.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "sonybmg.com.ph". sonybmg.com.ph. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
  7. ^ "Westlife beat Oasis, U2, and The Beatles in UK album battle". NME. 26 November 2006. Retrieved 26 November 2006.
  8. ^ "Platinum Awards" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2 July 2012.
  9. ^ "Westlife - Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You". YouTube. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2018.