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Release Date
28 October 2005
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Length
11 tracks
Face to Face was the seventh album by Irish boyband Westlife and it was released in the UK on 31 October 2005. The album contains many pop songs along with some dance oriented tracks. The first single from the album was a cover of the Secret Garden hit, "You Raise Me Up". It was this single that brought the band back into the limelight after their ratpack-tribute Allow Us to Be Frank 2004 album. The second single released was a cover version of "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" and was recorded as a duet with the original singer, the legendary Diana Ross. The final single released was "Amazing", an original mid-tempo song. "That's Where You Find Love" was released as a radio promotional single in The Philippines in support for the band's Face to Face Asian Tour 2006. While "Hit You With The Real Thing" charted in New Zealand iTunes in support of their Back Home Tour in 2008. The album also includes a cover of The Eagles classic "Desperado" along with one Backstreet Boys bonus track from their 2005 album, Never Gone, "Colour My World" and a Nick Carter solo song, "Heart Without A Home". The Face to Face album became Westlife's fifth UK number-one album in seven years, selling 1.3 million in the United Kingdom and over 6 million worldwide. Became, #7 and #129 in UK Year-end albums chart for 2005 and 2006 respectively. It was also the biggest selling album from Sony BMG Entertainment in 2005. It remained at #1 on the Australian ARIA charts for 4 weeks in March 2006 and was the 25th highest selling album of 2006 in Australia.
This is the 5th world tour Westlife had. This tour set a goal that they will play for a more smaller venues and audience to justify the title "Face to Face".
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