| Artist: | Westlife |
| Studio: | 12 |
| Compilation: | 9 |
| Singles: | 38 |
| Live: | 1 |
| Video: | 16 |
| Music Videos: | 55 |
| 1Option: | 21 |
| 1Option Name: | Promotional singles |
| 3Option: | 15 |
| 3Option Name: | No. 1 singles |
Irish boy band Westlife have released twelve studio albums, sixteen video albums, one live album, three karaoke albums, thirty-eight singles, twenty-one promotional singles, nine compilation albums and fifty-four music videos. Formed on 3 July 1998, the group was made up of singers Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden (who quit the band on 9 March 2004). The band was signed under Simon Cowell, Clive Davis, and Jordan Jay and under record labels' BMG, S Records, Arista Records, Sony BMG, Syco Music, Sony Music Entertainment and RCA Records from 1998 to 2012 and currently on Universal Music Group and Virgin EMI Records from 2018. The last four members remained active until their last live concert performance in the Europe's third largest stadium Croke Park on 23 June 2012 and have reunited on 3 October 2018 for new music and tour. Based on the British Phonographic Industry certifications, the group have sold more than 32 million records and videos in the United Kingdom alone across their 20-year career–8.8 million singles, 12.5 million albums and 1.5 million videos.[1] Their biggest selling album is their first Greatest Hits compilation, followed by Coast to Coast, with seven of their albums selling one million copies or more. Their biggest selling video is "Where Dreams Come True", which has sold 240,000 copies to date.[2]
In 2012, the Official Charts Company listed Westlife 34th amongst the biggest-selling singles artists in British music history. They are currently the sixteenth overall biggest group of all time.[3] As of April 2018, the group has sold more than 55 million records worldwide.[4]
They accumulated a total of 26 top ten hits including 15 number one singles as lead artist and as featured artist, 8 number one albums and 13 top 5 albums in the United Kingdom alone. 20 out of 29 singles as lead artist and as featured artist they have released in the United Kingdom have certifications from 1999 to 2022.[5] They are also currently ranked twenty-fourth with most number ones albums of all time.[6] They have had 36 number-one albums worldwide. This earned them the following Guinness World Records: first to achieve seven consecutive number-one singles in the UK, most singles to debut at number one on the UK chart and top selling album group in the United Kingdom in the 21st century.[7] [8] [9] Despite their success, Westlife never managed to break into the United States, achieving only one hit single in 2000, their debut single "Swear It Again", which peaked at number 20 on Billboard Hot 100 and was certified Gold.
However, "Swear It Again" was the band's first number-one single in the United Kingdom and Ireland followed by seventeen more number-ones from their succeeding singles "If I Let You Go", "Flying Without Wings", "I Have A Dream/Seasons in the Sun", "Fool Again", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "My Love", "Uptown Girl", "Queen of My Heart"/"When You're Looking Like That", "World of Our Own", "Unbreakable", "Tonight"/"Miss You Nights", "Mandy", "Everybody Hurts", "You Raise Me Up", "The Rose", "Hello My Love", and "Dynamite" from 1999 to 2019.
The group's debut international self-titled studio album, Westlife (1999) was number-one in several countries which was followed by succeeding studio albums Coast to Coast (2000), World of Our Own (2001), Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (2002) and Turnaround (2003), which continued the group's success worldwide. The four remaining member continued as a group to release their cover albums Allow Us to Be Frank (2004) and The Love Album (2006) and the studio albums Face to Face (2005) and Back Home (2007). After a one-year hiatus in 2008, they regrouped and released studio albums Where We Are (2009), and Gravity (2010) and compilation album Greatest Hits (2011). After eight years, the group reformed and released Spectrum (2019), followed by Wild Dreams (2021).
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Sales | ||||||||||
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| IRE [10] | AUS [11] | AUT [12] | GER [13] | NLD [14] | NZ [15] | NOR [16] | SWE [17] | SWI [18] | UK [19] | |||||
| Westlife |
| 1 | 15 | — | 55 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 2 |
Gold[20] 5× Platinum[21] 2× Platinum[22] Platinum[23] Gold[24] 2× Platinum[25] |
670,000 | |
| Coast to Coast |
| 1 | 40 | 59 | 19 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 38 | 1 |
Gold[28] Gold[29] |
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| World of Our Own |
| 1 | 80 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 19 | 1 |
Gold[32] | ||
| Turnaround |
| 1 | — | 42 | 20 | 33 | 42 | 37 | 5 | 24 | 1 |
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| Allow Us to Be Frank |
| 2 | — | — | 30 | 32 | — | — | 5 | 75 | 3 |
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| Face to Face |
| 1 | 1 | — | 18 | 30 | — | 7 | 9 | 14 | 1 | |||
| The Love Album |
| 1 | 11 | 49 | 34 | 49 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 1 | |||
| Back Home |
| 1 | 14 | 65 | 45 | 48 | 12 | 18 | 33 | 19 | 1 | |||
| Where We Are |
| 2 | — | 53 | 42 | — | 13 | — | 8 | 25 | 2 | |||
| Gravity |
| 1 | — | — | — | 76 | 22 | — | 46 | 50 | 3 |
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| Spectrum |
| 1 | — | — | 69 | — | — | — | — | 23 | 1 |
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| Wild Dreams |
| 2 | — | — | 75 | 46 | — | — | — | 71 | 2 |
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| "—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||||
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| IRE | AUS | AUT | GER | NLD | NZ | NOR | SWE | SWI | UK | ||||||
| Unbreakable – The Greatest Hits Volume 1 |
| 1 | 66 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 14 | 1 | ||||
| Greatest Hits |
| 1 | — | — | 75 | 64 | 17 | 31 | 46 | 96 | 4 |
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| The Love Songs[57] |
| 42 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released | |||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | |
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| No.1 Hits and Rare Tracks |
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| Golden Hits[58] |
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| Grandes Exitos[59] |
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| Released[60] |
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| Collector's Edition[61] |
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| Diamond – The Ultimate Collection[62] |
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| Best of the Best[63] |
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| Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||||||||||
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| IRE | AUS [66] | GER [67] | NLD [68] [69] | NZ | NOR | SWE | SWI | UK | US | ||||||
| "Swear It Again" | 1999 | 1 | 12 | — | 23 | 1 | — | 12 | 25 | 1 | 20 | Westlife | |||
| "If I Let You Go" | 1 | 13 | 50 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 1 | — |
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| "Flying Without Wings" | 1 | 36 | 85 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 12 | — | 1 | — |
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| "I Have a Dream" / "Seasons in the Sun" | 1 | 31 | 24 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 1 | — |
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| "Fool Again" | 2000 | 2 | — | 80 | 13 | — | — | 5 | 39 | 1 | — |
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| "My Love" | 1 | 36 | 57 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 38 | 1 | — |
| Coast to Coast | |||
| "What Makes a Man" | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — |
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| "I Lay My Love on You" | 2001 | — | 29 | 50 | 12 | 24 | — | 10 | 39 | — | — | ||||
| "Uptown Girl" | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 1 | — |
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| "When You're Looking Like That" | 20 | 19 | 24 | 23 | 30 | — | 9 | 47 | 188 | — |
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| "Queen of My Heart" | 1 | — | 27 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 37 | 1 | — |
| World of Our Own | |||
| "World of Our Own" | 2002 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 29 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 26 | 1 | — |
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| "Bop Bop Baby" | 4 | 56 | 15 | 21 | 21 | — | 16 | 36 | 5 | — |
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| "Unbreakable" | 1 | — | 12 | 18 | 44 | 9 | 5 | 41 | 1 | — |
| Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1 | |||
| "Tonight" / "Miss You Nights" | 2003 | 1 | 65 | 47 | 55 | — | — | 33 | — | 3 | — | ||||
| "Hey Whatever" | 2 | — | 22 | 30 | 39 | — | 5 | 53 | 4 | — | Turnaround | ||||
| "Mandy" | 1 | — | 14 | 27 | — | 15 | 4 | 30 | 1 | — |
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| "Obvious" | 2004 | 3 | — | 39 | 44 | — | — | 25 | 69 | 3 | — | ||||
| "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" | — | — | — | 41 | — | — | 20 | — | — | — | Allow Us to be Frank | ||||
| "Smile" | — | — | — | — | — | — | 37 | — | — | — | |||||
| "You Raise Me Up" | 2005 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 47 | — | 3 | 7 | 18 | 1 | — |
| Face to Face | ||
| "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" (featuring Diana Ross) | 2 | — | — | 45 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | |||||
| "Amazing" | 2006 | 3 | 34 | 53 | — | — | — | 36 | 58 | 4 | — | ||||
| "The Rose" | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 85 | 1 | — |
| The Love Album | |||
| "Home" | 2007 | 2 | — | 70 | — | — | 7 | 8 | — | 3 | — |
| Back Home | ||
| "Us Against the World" | 2008 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8 | — | ||||
| "Something Right" | 43 | 92 | — | — | — | — | 46 | — | — | — | |||||
| "What About Now" | 2009 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 13 | — | 2 | — |
| Where We Are | ||
| "Safe" | 2010 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 10 | — | Gravity | |||
| "Lighthouse" | 2011 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 32 | — | Greatest Hits | |||
| "Hello My Love" | 2019 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 13 | — |
| Spectrum | ||
| "Better Man" | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 26 | — |
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| "Dynamite" | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "My Blood" | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 96 | — | |||||
| "Starlight" | 2021 | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 66 | — | Wild Dreams | |||
| "My Hero"[74] | 81 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Alone Together"[75] | 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released | |||||||||||||||
| Single | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRE | AUS | AUT | GER | NLD | NZ | NOR | SWE | SWI | UK | |||||
| "Against All Odds" (Mariah Carey featuring Westlife) | 2000 | 1 | 52 | — | 29 | 29 | — | 2 | 3 | — | 1 |
| Rainbow | |
| "Everybody Hurts" (with Helping Haiti) | 2010 | 1 | 28 | 23 | 16 | — | 17 | — | 21 | 16 | 1 |
| Charity single | |
| "—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released | ||||||||||||||
| Single | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |
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| UK | ||||
| "Until the End of Time"[76] | 2000 | — | Swear It Again | |
| "My Private Movie"[77] [78] | — | Westlife (American edition) | ||
| "More Than Words" | — | Grandes Exitos/Westlife | ||
| "Close" | — | Coast to Coast | ||
| "Soledad" | 2000 | — | ||
| "I Have a Dream" (featuring Sherina) | 2001 | — | Westlife | |
| "En Ti Deje Mi Amor" | — | Grandes Exitos/Coast to Coast | ||
| "Con Lo Bien Que Te Ves" | — | |||
| "Angel" | 2002 | — | World of Our Own | |
| "Evergreen" | — | |||
| "I Wanna Grow Old with You" | — | |||
| "Flying Without Wings" (featuring BoA)[79] | — | Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Asian edition) | ||
| "Flying Without Wings" (featuring Cristian Castro)[80] | — | Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Spanish/Mexican edition) | ||
| "Flying Without Wings" (Live) | 2004 | — | Turnaround Tour | |
| "Beyond the Sea"[81] | — | Fly Me to the Moon | ||
| "That's Where You Find Love" | 2006 | — | Face to Face | |
| "Total Eclipse of the Heart" | 2007 | 129 | The Love Album | |
| "How to Break a Heart"[82] | 2010 | — | Where We Are | |
| "I Will Reach You"[83] | 2011 | — | Gravity | |
| "Beautiful World"[84] | — | Greatest Hits | ||
| "Without You" | 2019 | — | Spectrum | |
| "—" denotes song that did not chart or was not released | ||||
| Song | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRE | RU [85] | SWE | UK | ||||
| "Angels Wings" | 2002 | — | — | — | 148 | Coast to Coast | |
| "Miss You When I'm Dreaming" | 2006 | — | 130 | — | — | Amazing | |
| "All Out of Love" (featuring Delta Goodrem) | — | — | 31 | — | The Love Album | ||
| "You Light Up My Life" | — | — | — | 171 | |||
| "All or Nothing" | — | — | — | 142 | |||
| "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" | 2007 | — | — | — | 135 | Home | |
| "I'm Already There" | 47 | — | — | 62 | Back Home | ||
| "—" denotes song that did not chart or was not released | |||||||
| Year | Song | Movie |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | "We Are One" | A Monkey's Tale |
| 2000 | "Flying Without Wings" | |
| "I Don't Wanna Fight" | Maybe Baby | |
| 2008 | "You Are So Beautiful (To Me)" | The Best Movie |
| 2011 | "Safe" | Dolphin Tale |
| 2014 | "You Raise Me Up" | Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie |
| Title | Video details | |
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| The Westlife Story |
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| Westlife – The Complete Story |
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| Title | Video details | Notes | |
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| Where Dreams Come True |
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| The Greatest Hits Tour |
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| The Turnaround Tour |
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| The No.1's Tour |
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| Live at Wembley |
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| Live at Croke Park |
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| The Farewell Tour - Live at Croke Park |
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| The Twenty Tour - Live at Croke Park |
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| Title | Video details | |
|---|---|---|
| Westlife: Karaoke |
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| Uptown Girl |
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| Coast to Coast: Up Close and Personal |
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| World of Our Own |
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| The Greatest Hits |
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| Back Home |
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| The Karaoke Collection |
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| Greatest Hits Deluxe Edition Bonus DVD |
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| Album | Year | Single | Length | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westlife | 1999 | "Swear It Again" | 4:07 | Brett Turnbull, Wayne Isham | |
| "If I Let You Go" | 3:39 | Sven Harding | |||
| "Flying Without Wings" | 3:35 | Cameron Casey | |||
| "I Have a Dream" | 4:21 | ||||
| "Seasons in the Sun" | 4:02 | Cameron Casey and Simon Brand | |||
| 2000 | "Fool Again" | 4:21 | Cameron Casey | ||
| "Swear It Again" (Mexico Promo Mix) | 4:07 | N/A | |||
| "If I Let You Go" (Mexico Promo Mix) | 3:39 | N/A | |||
| Westlife (U.S. edition) | "Swear It Again" (U.S. version) or (Car Wash version) | 4:10 | Nigel Dick | ||
| "My Private Movie" (U.S. version) | 3:49 | N/A | |||
| Coast to Coast | "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" (featuring Mariah Carey) | 3:21 | Bill Boatman & P. Snyde | ||
| "My Love" | 4:14 | Robert Brinkmann | |||
| "What Makes a Man" | 3:49 | Stuart Gosling | |||
| "Seasons in the Sun" (Studio version) | 4:02 | N/A | |||
| "My Love" (Studio version) | 4:14 | N/A | |||
| 2001 | "I Lay My Love on You" | 3:29 | Stuart Gosling | ||
| "Uptown Girl" | 4:12 | ||||
| "When You're Looking Like That" | 4:01 | Matthew Amos | |||
| Westlife | "I Have A Dream" (with Sherina Munaf) | 4:35 | |||
| World of Our Own | "Queen of My Heart" | 4:28 | Max & Dania | ||
| "Angel" | 4:23 | Phil Griffin | |||
| 2002 | "World of Our Own" | 3:39 | Cameron Casey | ||
| "Bop Bop Baby" | 4:57 | Max & Dania | |||
| "Why Do I Love You" (Sessions@AOL) | 3:40 | N/A | |||
| "World of Our Own" (Sessions@AOL) | 3:39 | N/A | |||
| Westlife | "Swear It Again" (Sessions@AOL) | 4:07 | N/A | ||
| World of Our Own (U.S. edition) | "World of Our Own" (U.S. version) | Antti Jokinen | |||
| "Flying Without Wings" (with Cristian Castro) | 3:35 | ||||
| "Flying Without Wings" (with BoA) | 3:34 | ||||
| "Unbreakable" | 4:34 | Antti Jokinen | |||
| 2003 | "Miss You Nights" | 3:13 | |||
| "Tonight" | 4:32 | ||||
| "Tonight" (Metro Mix) | 4:14 | ||||
| Turnaround | "Hey Whatever" | 3:36 | David "Mouldy" Mould | ||
| "Mandy" (Version 1) | 3:18 | Tim Royes | |||
| "Mandy" (Version 2) | 3:19 | ||||
| 2004 | "Obvious" | 3:29 | Max & Dania | ||
| Allow Us to Be Frank | "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" | 2:29 | Marcus Raboy | ||
| "Smile" | 2:51 | ||||
| "Fly Me to the Moon" | 2:32 | ||||
| Face to Face | 2005 | "You Raise Me Up" | 4:00 | Alex Hemming | |
| "You Raise Me Up" (Version 2) | 4:00 | ||||
| "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" (featuring Diana Ross) | 4:01 | Ashley Pugh | |||
| 2006 | "Amazing" | 2:56 | Max & Dania | ||
| The Love Album | "The Rose" (black and white version) | 3:33 | Alex Hemming | ||
| "The Rose" (colour version) | 3:33 | ||||
| Back Home | 2007 | "Home" | 3:30 | Max and Dania, Mike Lipscombe | |
| 2008 | "Us Against the World" | 3:57 | Max and Dania | ||
| "Something Right" | 3:15 | Julian Gibbs | |||
| Where We Are | 2009 | "What About Now" | 4:10 | Philip Andelman | |
| Helping Haiti | 2010 | "Everybody Hurts" (promotional video) | 6:01 | Joseph Kahn | |
| "Everybody Hurts" (director's cut) | 4:36 | ||||
| "Everybody Hurts" (official video) | 5:20 | ||||
| Gravity | "Safe" | 3:51 | Sean de Sparengo | ||
| Greatest Hits | 2011 | "Lighthouse" | 3:56 | Philip Andelman | |
| "Beautiful World" | 3:38 | ||||
| Spectrum | 2019 | "Hello My Love" | 3:45 | Robert Hales | |
| "Better Man" | 3:16 | Lochlainn "Locky" McKenna | |||
| "Dynamite" | 3:32 | Paul Coy Allen | |||
| "My Blood" | 3:33 | Robert Hales | |||
| Wild Dreams | 2021 | "Starlight" | 3:42 | Mike Baldwin |
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