The remade British music video features the band members in a mini theatre and singing on a stage fitted with lighting panel flooring while they face a screen with black-and-white videos of their studio recording process. Simon Cowell had spent £150,000 on it, didn't like it and ordered a re-shoot. The original version of the video was not released. Īn exclusive live track version of the single was included in the Arista Records 25th anniversary compilation album in 2000. It was composed in the traditional verse–chorus form in A major, with Filan and Feehily's vocal ranging from the chords of B 3 to F ♯ 5.
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The song's B-side, " Forever", was a significant choice because it was the song - as originally recorded by Damage - that first alerted Cowell to the talent of Steve Mac and then led to the producer working with Westlife. Significantly, his father died during the premiere week of the release of the single. It was revealed that Cowell let his late father Eric Cowell listened to all of the songs recorded by the band at that time and decide what will be the debut single and "Swear It Again" was his choice. The success of the two tracks led to Mac becoming Cowell's first choice producer and songwriter. "Swear It Again" is notable for being, along with " Flying Without Wings", one of the first two songs that Steve Mac wrote for both Westlife and Simon Cowell. This is exactly what we want to be recording". In Westlife - Our Story the band recalled being "excited" hearing the demo of this song saying "Wow, this is a great song. It is their fifth-most-streamed song in their home country, the Republic of Ireland, as of 2 April 2019. It is the band's ninth-most-streamed song, fifth-best-selling single in combined sales category, and seventh-best-selling single in paid-for sales category in the UK as of January 2019. The single has sold over 400,000 copies in the UK and has achieved gold status there.
To date, "Swear It Again" is Westlife's only single to have charted in the US, peaking at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and ranking number 75 on the Billboard Hot 100 year-end charts, in 2000. It peaked at number one in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in May 1999, spending 13 weeks on the chart and giving Westlife their first of 14 UK number-one singles. This is the best-selling debut single of all-time from an Irish citizen. It was released on 19 April 1999 in the United Kingdom and on 25 February 2000 in the United States as the first and only single from their self-titled debut album Westlife (1999). " Swear It Again" is a song by Irish boy band Westlife. "Swear It Again (Car Wash Version)" on YouTube
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