WESTLIFE will be touring the UK and Ireland for the first time in seven years in 2019.

The Flying Without Wings singers, who are the UK’s top selling album group of the 21st century, will be performing in arenas between May and July.

Celebrating Westlife’s 20th anniversary, ‘The Twenty Tour’ will kick off in Belfast on May 25 before visiting Manchester Arena on May 30 and Liverpool Arena on June 25. The final show is a homecoming in Dublin on July 5.

The shows will see the global pop kings perform new songs, alongside all 14 of their UK number ones including Swear It Again, You Raise Me Up and Unbreakable.

Shane, Nicky, Mark and Kian announced their return to music two weeks ago to a frenzy of media coverage and social media activity.

The band have signed a new record deal with Virgin EMI, and will be back in the studio soon and the shows will be their first as a group since they played Croke Park in Dublin in June 2012.

Westlife have sold more than 55 million records worldwide, and are the only band to have their first seven singles enter the UK chart at number one.

They also have the most singles of any artist to debut at number one in the UK.

Overall the band have 14 chart-topping songs, behind only the record breaking music careers of Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

As a live act Westlife have sold five million concert tickets worldwide.

They still hold the record for the most shows played at The SSE Arena, Wembley – 28 – and the most shows played at The SSE Arena, Belfast – 50.

Fans that pre-order a copy of the forthcoming new Westlife album from the official store before 12pm on Monday will receive a code for early access tickets to the tour.

The pre-sale starts at 9am on Tuesday with general tickets available from 9am on Thursday, October 25.

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