"World of Our Own" is a song by Irish boy bandWestlife. It was released on 18 February 2002 as the second single from their third studio albumof the same name. The song peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming their 10th number one single - making them a part of a small group of artists in British chart history to achieve this feat. Also, they made history by being the shortest music act or band to have ten or double-figures number ones in the UK Singles Chart – more than 3 months quicker than the Beatles. The song's popularity peaked when it was featured in the children's feature film, You Wish!. "World of Our Own" was the 40th best selling single of 2002 in the UK, and received a Silver sales certification in the UK for over 200,000 copies sold. It is the band's fourth most streamed song, and twelfth best selling single of all-time on both paid-for and combined sales categories in the United Kingdom as of January 2019. While it is their second most streamed song of all time from their home country, the Republic of Ireland, with 579 thousand streams as of 2 April 2019. On 12 May 2018, the song was performed on South Korean music programme 'Immortal Songs 2' by V.O.S. Band member Shane Filan was the featured 'Legend' and judged the participants.
Critical reception
from Billboard called it "a definitive pop song", praising its "joyfully catchy chorus, itchy train-track-clacking beat, velvet harmonies" and Shane Filan's "glossy, emotive vocals", concluding that "Westlife deserves it shot in America, and this is the perfect song with which to take aim."
Music video
The video of this song was directed by Cameron Casey and it was Rat Pack styled. The band members are dressed up as gangsters and they enter in an AmericanHummer. Until the first chorus, the band members sing beneath a bridge. Then, they go to the balcony of a futuristic building then on a deserted bridge. As they sing, the darkness lifts and the sun shines making everybody happy. The song ends with the scene shifting from the top of the roof of yet another futuristic building to back under the bridge from where the song initiated. There is a video for the U.S. version as well, which is a bit mature from the band's earlier innocent-type videos and it was directed by Antti Jokinen. The video features the band singing in an abandoned building with broken walls and surrounded by shrubbery. The video occasionally cuts to various couples kissing and necking each other while the band continue to sing in the building equipped with mics and seating on sofas. The video also shows the boys having fun at a party lit by candles, drinking beer and flirting with girls. The video ends in the same fashion it begins: by zooming out of the building. Another video features the group members recording the song in a studio.
