the jackson 5 is the best selling boy band of all time.
the jackson 5 is the best selling boy band of all time.
who is the best selling boy band of all time?
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westlife's debut album and single coincided with the apogee of boy band popularity, and their success was most apparent in ireland, the uk, and most of african, asian, australian and european continental countries. they had album certifications in brazil, mexico, and the united states as well. they had 13 worldwide concert tours and sold over 5.5 million tickets. on april 2001, over one million fans wanted to chat with the lads from 122 countries. voted worldwide as the best boy band on "mtv battle of the boybands" with thirty-two bands in the choices in 2012. their battle between backstreet boys garnered the highest rate of votes with more than one million. the total votes throughout the two-week competition got more than 12 million votes. the final battle was between them and the jonas brothers. they have more than 50,000 official fans club members in mainland china alone in 2006. boy band one direction was mistaken for westlife in ghana. they are the biggest selling international, foreign album act in indonesian and philippine music records history. they are vietnam's most viewed music artist in youtube as of 2015. their version of "you raise me up" is on the top 75 best selling singles of all time in australia. voted by the public four times as the record of the year and twice as best pop act on brit awards in the uk where they also have the most awards and nominations on the said category's history. three of their studio albums were part of the 50 fastest selling albums of all time in uk. in 2000s, "swear it again" became a popular song for wedding and funerals in the british isles. in 2009, "flying without wings" was listed as seventh most popular song for wedding's first dances in uk. in 2012, their version of "you raise me up" and also "flying without wings" made it to the top 20 most popular songs used at funerals. in 2016, three of their songs ("i'll see you again", "flying without wings", "you raise me up") made it on the top pop music choices for funerals in ireland. in 2019, "you raise me up" appeared as the eighth top pop music choices in funerals in the united kingdom and second in northern ireland. in south korea, their albums "coast to coast" and "world of our own" are the top two best selling albums from a western boy band of all time and nine out of twenty albums listed in the top best-selling albums of western boy bands of all time are from the band. also in south korea, their singles "my love" and "you raise me up" stayed in the top 75 of the official international karaoke charts since the inception of the charts in december 2010 up to its recent chart released. the only irish act, pop band, boy band to have two of previous marvel hollywood actors had been cast in two of the lads' music videos. vinnie jones who played as juggernaut in "" was featured as the duke vincent in "bop bop baby", while ioan gruffudd who played as mr. fantastic in "fantastic four" 2005 and 2007 was featured as one of the high class customers in "uptown girl". the only irish act, pop band, boy band to have worked with three "american idol" judges (mariah carey, simon cowell, lionel richie). demo song "beautiful in white" reached more than 230 million views (on a single video only) on youtube as of july 2019, making it as the most successful original song from a pop act that was not released as an official single and never made any albums (until filan released a different version for his solo album, accompanied with an official music video). their song "my love" is the most viewed, liked, and shared facebook video post from a boy band and their medley video is also the second most liked one.
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during this time, the official charts company compiled the band's chart history which states that other than their number-ones they had, 25 uk top 10s, 26 uk top 40s, 27 uk top 75s, 20 weeks at number 1, 76 weeks in top 10, 189 weeks in top 40 and 282 weeks in top 75 in the uk singles chart. while 7 number 1s, 12 uk top 10s, top 40s, top 75s, 7 weeks at number 1, 92 weeks in top 10, 189 weeks in top 40, and 299 weeks in top 75 in the uk albums chart. they also had seven album number-ones in eight years. the most number ones with different albums by a music album act, group, pop group, and male group in uk albums chart in the 2000s and the second most number ones, tied with rod stewart, with different albums by a music album act, group, pop group and male group in uk clustered per decade since the beatles in the 1960s. third highest band, and highest pop band with most number ones and top tens in uk singles chart. they have fourteen number-one singles in eight years and seven number-two singles in ten years and in seven consecutive years. they are also the pop group and act, irish group and act, and male group and act with most number-one singles with all and most members are still living. runner-up to beatles with most number one hits with an individual credits by bands, and male bands. most number one hits with an individual credits by non-british bands. runner-up to beatles with most top 3 hits by a group and a male group. runner-up to take that with most consecutive top 3 hits by a group and a male group. most consecutive top 3 hits including debut single by a male group and tied with spice girls for the act, group, pop act and pop group categories. most consecutive top 5 hits of all-time in the uk by a debuting act and group and by an act, a group, a male group, a pop act and a pop group. runner-up to madonna with most consecutive top 10 hits of all-time in uk. they have the most consecutive top 10, top 20, top 40, and top 75 hits by a debuting act and group, and by an act, a group, a male group, a pop act and a pop group in uk. all 10 of westlife's studio albums made the top three, with six of them reaching number one, both records for boy bands. they are the top act, group, pop act and pop group from ireland in the uk singles and albums charts best-selling music artists lists after u2. on the best-selling boy bands of all time list, they are eighth currently worldwide, the biggest selling boy band from ireland in history globally, and the largest selling boy band not from the united states since bay city rollers from the 1970s and the highest and the only one on the list that didn't have had a major break in the united states. in the republic of ireland, they have fourteen number-one singles and ten number-one albums, the most for a pop band and act and male band and act next to u2.
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