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- Since signing with RCA,
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- Westlife have gone on to
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- become one of the biggest
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- UK bands in pop.
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- In December 1998 Westlife
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- won the Smash Hits 'Best
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- New Tour Act' following the
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- footsteps of previous winners
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- Boyzone, Backstreet Boys
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- and Five. Predicted to
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- become the new Princes of
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- Pop they further secured this
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- title by making chart history
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- by becoming the first band
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- ever to achieve six
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- consecutive number 1 hits
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- with their first six singles.
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- This gained them a place in
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- the Guinness Book of Records
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- who also valued the band at
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- an amazing ÔΩ£14.3m.