Westlife have dropped the music video for 'Hello My Love' and it's a big hit with fans
It's their first single since 2011
Just 24 hours after dropping their amazing comeback single, 'Hello My Love', Westlife have released the music video and it's a big hit with fans already. 'Hello My Love' is the first new music from the band since 2011, and has been penned by the amazing Ed Sheeran.
The popular Irish band started teasing their new single earlier this week, with a nine-second clip, revealing the single's name and its release date. We then had the first play of the single yesterday (11th January) on Downtown Radio.
Now, Westlife have revealed that they dropped their music video this morning and it's an immediate hit with fans. Taking to Twitter the band wrote, 'Hello My Love video is out now! Check it out here'.
Since then, fans have been taking to social media to say how much they love the single, and now that the music video has dropped, the compliments just keep on rolling in! One fan tweeted, 'It's brilliant! So excited to finally have a notification from the Westlife YT account that wasn't just an upload of old stuff!', with another saying, 'HOLY WOW! What a masterpiece!! Killing it!😍😍❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉', 'Omg ❤️'. sic
The video sees the band in a rocky location as the sunrises they find themselves in a huge hot air balloon.
WATCH: The music video for Westlife's 'Hello My Love'
'Hello My Love' is the first single from the band in eight years and for many months it was rumoured that BRIT Award winner Ed Sheeran had written it. This has now been confirmed with the singles release. Did you know that Ed Sheeran has written a number of other songs for other artists? Here are 12 songs you didn't know Ed Sheeran had written.
Now take a look at Westlife through the years:
Westlife - 1999
'Hello My Love' comes just a few months after Westlife announced a tour to celebrate 20 years as a group. Westlife will be going on tour later this year, taking 'The Twenty Tour' on the road, and performing in Belfast on 25th and 26th May! They will also be performing in Dublin on 5th July.
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