"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 song for dance clubs which was very popular.
Boyzone are an Irish boy band comprising of Keith Duffy, Stephen Gately, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating, and Shane Lynch. Boyzone have 19 singles in the top 40 UK charts and 21 singles in the Ireland charts. The group currently have 6 UK number one Singles and 9 number one singles in Ireland with 12 of their 20 singles in the UK being in the UK Top 2.
Boyzone are one of the most successful bands in the UK and Ireland. In total, the group have 19 top 5 singles on the Ire, 18 top 10 hits on the UK charts, nine #1 Irish singles chart hit singles and six #1 UK hit singles and five #1 albums, with approximately 20 million records sold by 2010 in British Isles and worldwide. The number is confirmed by Gately's book The Tree of Seasons.
Boyzone famously made a comeback in 2007, originally with the intention of just touring. The band was put together in 1993 by Louis Walsh who is also known for managing Johnny Logan and Westlife. The band has released four studio albums and seven compilation albums to date. Gately died on 10 October 2009 of natural causes while on his holiday in Majorca, Spain.
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