''Unbreakable – The Greatest Hits Volume 1'' is the first greatest hits album by Irish boy band

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. The album was released on 11 November 2002. It was also the band's fourth album to be released as a five-piece and with

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and

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. The album consists of all of the group's past singles, along with six new songs. Hit single "

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" was re-recorded as a duet with South Korean singer

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and Mexican singer

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, and each respective duet was included on the Asian and Spanish editions of the album respectively. The first single released from the album was "

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", a UK number-one single. The second single, the double A-side "

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" peaked at number three in the UK and at number one in the

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. ''Unbreakable'' peaked at number one in the UK and sold close to 1.8 million copies in the UK alone. The album was the ninth best-selling album of 2002 in the UK. It is also the band's biggest selling album so far and their longest charting album. It managed to re-enter the year-end albums chart of 2007 at number 107. In October 2008, IFPI announced that the album was certified 2× Platinum, exceeding two million sales in Europe. On the year-end album charts of 2008, the album re-entered at number 79 with 191,000 copies sold within the year. The album spent 55 weeks on the UK Top 100 Albums chart. This is the fifth best-selling album of 2002 in Ireland. In 2008, the album was re-issued in an exclusive two disc edition, entitled "Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits - 2008 NZ Tour Edition". The package featured the album, with the same track listing, plus the " Live at Wembley" 2006 concert DVD. It peaked at No. 1 on the albums chart there, and achieved 2× Platinum status, with more than 30,000 copies sold. The album finished at No. 19 on the 2008 New Zealand Year-end charts.

Track listing

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'' promotion) # "World of Our Own" (US Mix) - 3:30 from World of Our Own (2001) # "More Than Words" - 3:58 from Westlife (1999) # "Forever" - 5:05 from Westlife (1999), Swear It Again EP # "You Don't Know" - 4:12 from World of Our Own # "Interview With Westlife" - 5:00

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

The Greatest Hits Tour

Video release

A DVD containing the music videos of the group's greatest hits was one of the five best-selling music DVDs of 2002 and BMG's fourth biggest-selling concert music DVDs the same year.

Track listing

# "Swear It Again" # "If I Let You Go" # "Flying Without Wings" # "I have a dream" # "Seasons in the sun" # "Fool Again" # "My Love" # "What Makes A Man" # "Uptown Girl" # "When you're looking like that" # "I lay my love on you" # "Queen of My Heart" # "Angel" # "World of Our Own # # "Bop Bop Baby" # "Unbreakable" # "Behind The Scenes Documentary" # "Before They Were Famous..." # "Swear It Again" (US version) # "World of our own" (US Version)

Chart performance

Certifications and sales

References

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