By Request (Boyzone album)
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By Request is a greatest hits compilation from Boyzone
. The album contains material recorded between 1994–1999, and was released on May 31, 1999 by Universal. As well as containing the band's fifteen singles, the album also includes the three bonus tracks from the US release of their previous album, Where We Belong
, and a worldwide exclusive track, "When You Say Nothing At All". The album was the 2nd best selling of 1999 in the UK. The album was certified as 6x Platinum in the UK and has sold 4 million copies to date. It is also currently the fifth biggest selling boyband record ever in the UK.
Boyzone
Boyzone are an Irish boy band comprising Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating,Shane Lynch, and formerly Stephen Gately. Boyzone have 19 singles in the top 40 UK charts and 21 singles in the Ire charts. The group currently have 6 UK number one singles and 9 number one singles in Ireland with 12...
. The album contains material recorded between 1994–1999, and was released on May 31, 1999 by Universal. As well as containing the band's fifteen singles, the album also includes the three bonus tracks from the US release of their previous album, Where We Belong
Where We Belong
"Where We Belong" is the second single from the album The Betrayed, the fourth studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Lostprophets. It was released on 4 January 2010...
, and a worldwide exclusive track, "When You Say Nothing At All". The album was the 2nd best selling of 1999 in the UK. The album was certified as 6x Platinum in the UK and has sold 4 million copies to date. It is also currently the fifth biggest selling boyband record ever in the UK.
Track listing
- "I Love the Way You Love Me" – 3:46
- "No Matter WhatNo Matter What (Boyzone song)"No Matter What" is a song from the 1996 musical Whistle Down the Wind, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman and popularized by the group Boyzone. The song reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart, and was the only Boyzone hit to become popular in the U.S. Jewels & Stone did a remix for the...
" – 4:34 - "All That I NeedAll That I Need"All That I Need" is the third single from Irish Boyband Boyzone's third studio album, Where We Belong. The song reached #1 in the UK Singles Chart...
" – 3:42 - "Baby Can I Hold You" – 3:15
- "Picture of YouPicture of You (song)"Picture of You" is the first single released from Boyzone's third album, Where We Belong. The song, released in 1997, led to frontman Ronan Keating for winning an Ivor Novello award, and is best known as the main theme song for the film Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie, for which Rowan Atkinson...
" – 3:29 - "Isn't It a WonderIsn't It a WonderIsn't It a Wonder is the third single from Irish Boyband Boyzone's second album, A Different Beat. The single reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming their first single from A Different Beat not to reach Number One.-Tracklisting:CD1...
" – 3:45 - "A Different BeatA Different Beat (song)"A Different Beat" is the second single from Irish Boyband Boyzone's second album, A Different Beat.-Tracklisting:CD1# "A Different Beat" - 3:24# "Angel" - 3:45# "A Different Beat" - 6:10CD2...
" – 4:15 - "Words" – 4:04
- "Father and Son" – 2:46
- "So GoodSo Good (Boyzone song)So Good is the fourth single from Irish Boyband Boyzone. The single was taken from the band's debut album, Said and Done. The song entered the UK charts at #3 and Ireland at #1.-Tracklisting:UK CD1# "So Good" - 3:03...
" – 3:45 - "Coming Home NowComing Home NowComing Home Now is the sixth single from Irish Boyband Boyzone, taken from their debut album, Said and Done. The single peaked at number four on the UK charts...
" – 3:39 - "Key to My LifeKey to My LifeKey to My Life is the third single from Irish Boyband Boyzone. The single was taken from the band's debut album, Said and Done. "Key to My Life" saw success, reaching #3 on the UK Singles Chart...
" – 3:37 - "Love Me for a Reason" – 3:29
- "When the Going Gets Tough" – 4:07
- "You Needed Me" – 4:14
- "All the Time in the World" – 3:45
- "When You Say Nothing at All" – 3:03
- "I'll Never Not Need You" – 4:10
- "Walk On (So They Told Me)" – 3:29
Charts
| Chart (1999) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
1 |
| Danish Albums Chart | 1 |
| Irish Albums Chart | 1 |
| New Zealand Albums Chart | 1 |
| Belgian (Flanders) Albums Chart | 1 |
| Norwegian Albums Chart | 1 |
| Japanese Albums Chart | 1 |
| Australian Albums Chart | 3 |
| Dutch Albums Chart | 3 |
| German Albums Chart | 4 |
| Austrian Albums Chart | 4 |
| Swedish Albums Chart | 4 |
| Swiss Albums Chart | 5 |
| Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart | 15 |
| Finnish Albums Chart | 19 |
| Hungarian Albums Chart Mahasz Mahasz is the Hungarian music industry association, founded in 1992. Mahasz hands out the Hungarian Music Awards and maintains the music charts for Hungary.... |
21 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (1999) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums Chart | 50 |
| Austrian Albums Chart | 45 |
| UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
2 |
Certifications
| Country | Certifications |
|---|---|
| Europe IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland... |
2x Platinum |
| Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... |
2× Platinum |
| Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
Gold |
| Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth... |
10× Platinum |
| Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... |
Platinum |
| Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Platinum |
| Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... |
Gold |
| United Kingdom British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... |
6× Platinum |
Credits
- Boyzone – vocals
- Mike Mangini – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, producerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music... - James McNally – accordionAccordionThe accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
, whistleWhistleA whistle or call is a simple aerophone, an instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means... - Ann Morfee – violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
- Steve Morris – Violin
- Tessa Niles – background vocals
- Graeme Perkins – organizerOrganizerOrganizer could refer to:*Union organizer, a trade union official*Party organizer, a political party official*Community organizing, a way of building democratic power for the powerless*Personal organizer, a type of diary...
- Audrey Riley – celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
- Trevor Steel – programming, producer
- Miriam Stockley – background vocals
- Carl Sturken – arrangerArrangementThe American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
, producer - Philip Todd – saxophoneSaxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
- Peter-John VettesePeter-John VettesePeter-John Vettese , also known as Peter Vettese, is a British keyboardist, songwriter, arranger and record producer....
– keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... - Warren Wiebe – background vocals
- Gavyn Wright – string directorMusic directorA music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...
- Nigel Wright – keyboards, producer
- Guy Baker – trumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
- Clare Finnimore – violaViolaThe viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
- Matt Howe – mix engineerMix engineerA mix engineer, also referred to as "mixing engineer", is a person who, once all instruments, voices, and sounds, etc., have been recorded, creates what is called the final version of a song, hence the term "mix engineer"...
- Gillian Kent – violin
- Michael Hart Thompson – guitar
- Jeremy Wheatley – mix engineer
- Andy Caine – background vocals
- Clare Thompson – violin
- Bruce White – viola
- John Matthews – background vocals
- Andy Earl – photographyPhotographyPhotography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
- Alex Black – assistant engineerAudio engineeringAn audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
- Tim Willis – assistant engineer
- Ben Allen – guitar
- John R. Angier – keyboards
- Emma Black – cello
- Deborah Widdup – violin
- Nastee – DJDisc jockeyA disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
- Anna Hemery – violin
- Wayne Hector – background vocals, vocal arrangement
- Yvonne John Lewis – background vocals
- Absolute – Producer, mix engineer
- Richard George – violin
- Skoti-Alain Elliot – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, programming, track engineer - Laura Melhuish – violin
- Orla Quirke – designDesignDesign as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
, direction - Jim Steinman – producer, executive producer
- Paul Martin – viola
- Tracie Ackerman – background vocals
- Tom Lord-Alge – mix engineer
- Andy Bradfield – remixing
- Nick Cooper – cello
- Ian Curnow – producer
- Danny G. – keyboards
- Sue Dench – viola
- Andy Duncan – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- Simon Franglen – keyboards, engineer, programming
- Scott Gordon – vocal engineer
- Mark Hudson – vocal arrangement, vocal producer
- Eric Lijestrand – digital editing
- Steve Lipson – bass, producer, programming, mandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...