The singles flawless successes remained with subsequent releases and the albums also achieved popularity.  'Where We Belong', the group's third album release involved much collaboration with for example Johnny Douglas who worked alongside other world famous artists like George Michael and the All Saints.

Boyzone have varied their style of music adopting more recently rhythm and blues ballads and much more evident in their early releases up-tempo tunes and "hi-NRG" dance songs.

Awards for their releases include the Ivor Novello Award for the single 'Picture Of You' and four Irish Music Awards.

Television is no stranger to the group.  Ronan has presented the MTV Awards, the Eurovision Song Contest and Miss World.  Stephen has presented the 1998 Smash Hits Poll Winners Party.

Ronan Keating took on the solo challenge by releasing his debut single 'When You Say Nothing At All' in 1999.  This song was particularly associated with the hit movie, 'Notting Hill' starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant.  It pipped the number 1 post in the UK singles charts but missed out on winning the Brittania Record Of The Year 1999 award which went instead to the all-new male group, Westlife ironically managed by Ronan together with Louis Walsh. 

The most recent album, '...By Request' is the very best of Boyzone and reflects their success and popularity.  Tracks featured are true favourites including the Tracy Chapman song, 'Baby, Can I Hold You' (Ronan being a personal fan of Chapman), 'All That I Need', 'When The Going Gets Tough' and 'You Needed Me'.  In late November 1999 there was the release of a brand new single, 'Every Day I Love You' which made its debut at the No. 3 UK singles chart position.  Also in 1999 Ronan won a deserving Smash Hits award for being voted the best father whilst Stephen enjoyed the title of being best hero winning a Smash Hits award too.

Currently the new millennium saw in a new Boyzone tour in the U.K. and Ireland which proved highly popular.  Boyzone are one of the most successful all-male pop groups around and have produced a string of albums and singles that prove their excellence in the music industry and which establishes them as one of the most successful music artists ever.

Westlife was once managed by two big names in the music business: Ronan Keating of Boyzone and Louis Walsh.  Ronan decided to leave management in 2000 when his own solo career and involvement with Boyzone was becoming in itself a busy schedule.  By now, Westlife had already strived forward as a huge pop act.  Back at the end of 1999, Westlife won the Britannia 'Record Of The Year' with 'Flying Without Wings' to beat Ronan's own 'When You Say Nothing At All'.

By mid-2000, Westlife moved forward to promote themselves big in the US.  They had already become recognised as a huge pop act across Europe and Asia.  The band had already released their massive debut album self-titled 'Westlife' which became No.1 in the UK.  It was in 2000 that Westlife went onto release their second album, 'Coast To Coast', another No.1 album in the UK.  From this came another string of highly-successful No.1s including 'My Love', 'Against All Odds' which was performed in duet with the famous Mariah Carey and 'I Have A Dream'.  At the end of 2000, Westlife celebrated another victory with their second 'Record Of The Year' award.

The start of 2001 saw Westlife record a special track: the cover version of Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl' for Comic Relief, which scored the UK No.1 singles position.  Towards the end of 2001, Westlife released their third and more personal album, 'World Of Our Own', yet another No.1 album in the UK, which includes the No.1 hit, 'Queen Of My Heart'.  The album features some superb upbeat tracks such as the excellent title track, 'World Of Our Own' as well as some powerful ballads and many tracks have been written by the members of Westlife themselves representing their progressive talents as professional song performers and songwriters.  Towards the end of 2001, Westlife celebrated award victories, for example, in the Smash Hits Poll Winner's Party where they won Best Album for 'World Of Our Own' and Best Band.

A new year and in 2002 Westlife received further rewards.  In February, Westlife won the Best Pop Act award at the Brit Awards and only a few days later they made it big again by scoring their tenth UK No.1 with the massive upbeat song, 'World Of Our Own'.  Westlife have established themselves as a quality music act with successes upon successes that's unbeatable!

Brian Kennedy was born in Belfast.  In 1990, Kennedy came out with his debut album called 'The Great War Of Words'.  Since then he has released many well-received releases.  1996 saw the highly popular album 'A Better Man', the second of Kennedy's albums, claim success.  More singles to win Kennedy a No.1 album position in Ireland included 'Life, Love And Happiness' and 'Put The Message In The Box'.  Such was the popularity of Kennedy, his album was certified four-times platinum in Ireland.  To top this, Kennedy won a highly acclaimed Irish Music Industry Award.

In 1997, the 'Eurovision Song Contest' was held at The Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, following the win of Eimear Quinn with 'The Voice' when she represented Ireland in the previous year.  The presenters were Ronan Keating and Carrie Crowley (pictured right).  The contest in its 42nd year saw 25 countries take part.  The winning song was 'Love Shine A Light' for the UK sung by Katrina & The Waves.  At the contest, Ronan had the opportunity to perform alongside his mates at Boyzone for 'Let The Message Run Free' which received a real round of applause. 

But the Eurovision Song Contest has changed since then...now there are about 23 countries which are eligible to take part and there are a few rules in the contest, one being that a song can no longer be more than 3 minutes long plus the lowest scoring five countries that take part will be relegated from the next year's contest!  There are some exceptions to those countries that put money to the event including Germany and the UK.  Until recently, has any country been allowed to sing their songs in English - this started from 2000.