World of Our Own (song)
"World of Our Own" is a song by Irish boy band Westlife. It was released on 18 February 2002 as the second single from their third studio album of the same name (2001). 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 fastest music act to achieve ten number ones in the UK Singles Chart (2 years and 10 months or 149  weeks) – more than 3 months quicker than the Beatles (165 weeks). 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 platinum sales certification in the UK for over 600,000 sales and streams. It is the band's fourth-most-streamed song and twelfth-best-selling single in both paid-for and combined sales in the United Kingdom as of January 2019. Critical reception. Chuck Taylor 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 American Hummer. 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 (the people) 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 US version as well, which is more mature than the band's earlier videos. This video, directed by Antti Jokinen, 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. Track listings. UK and Irish enhanced CD single European enhanced CD single European DVD single Australian CD single Credits and personnel. Recording Personnel