* Lost Norway to Kurt and Pop Idol
Thu, 14 Oct 2004
The lads from westlife think Kurt Nilsen and the new idols from Pop Idol have stolen large parts of the Norwegian market for them.
Now they¡¦re returning to win their Norwegian fans back.
¡§Norways a country we have to work with again, I¡¦m assuming people have gone off Pop Idol by now¡¨, Shane Filan asks hopefully. Along with Mark Feehily, Kian Egan and Nicky Byrne he¡¦s goin to Oslo to perform at the Nordic Music Awards next week.
¡§The thing is that all the Norwegian artists from PopIdol are with the same record company that we are¡¨, says Mark. ¡§Westlife are signed to BMG, and so are Kurt Nilsen and the other successful idols and their fanbase are pretty much the same.¡¨
¡§It¡¦s more natural for the record company to invest money in these artists that they can promote all the time, than some band that just drops by once in a while. And their man won World Idol too! But ¡§PopIdol¡¨ has definitely changed the BMG. It¡¦s not like they ignore us, but they have these other big artists to take care of¡¨
¡§We know that we have a fan-base in Norway, it¡¦s the first country we went to no.1 in outside the UK, but we only had 2300 in the audience at our last show (turnaround tour) and we know we could have had 10 000. We used to have that many, and plan on next year (!!!!! THEY¡¦RE COMMIN BACK!!!!). That¡¦s our goal, for Norway to be a better place for westlife again.
VG meets Filan and Feehily at the luxurious Conrad Hotell in Chelsea Harbour in London. They¡¦ve juas had their make-up done and are about to do a TV-interview. Kian Egan doesn¡¦t look as good with his eyes glued to the computer (think he was checkin the boards?) before runnin away to meet someone. Nicky Byrne is home in Ireland
Credit: [westlifes_castle]
The lads from westlife think Kurt Nilsen and the new idols from Pop Idol have stolen large parts of the Norwegian market for them.
Now they¡¦re returning to win their Norwegian fans back.
¡§Norways a country we have to work with again, I¡¦m assuming people have gone off Pop Idol by now¡¨, Shane Filan asks hopefully. Along with Mark Feehily, Kian Egan and Nicky Byrne he¡¦s goin to Oslo to perform at the Nordic Music Awards next week.
¡§The thing is that all the Norwegian artists from PopIdol are with the same record company that we are¡¨, says Mark. ¡§Westlife are signed to BMG, and so are Kurt Nilsen and the other successful idols and their fanbase are pretty much the same.¡¨
¡§It¡¦s more natural for the record company to invest money in these artists that they can promote all the time, than some band that just drops by once in a while. And their man won World Idol too! But ¡§PopIdol¡¨ has definitely changed the BMG. It¡¦s not like they ignore us, but they have these other big artists to take care of¡¨
¡§We know that we have a fan-base in Norway, it¡¦s the first country we went to no.1 in outside the UK, but we only had 2300 in the audience at our last show (turnaround tour) and we know we could have had 10 000. We used to have that many, and plan on next year (!!!!! THEY¡¦RE COMMIN BACK!!!!). That¡¦s our goal, for Norway to be a better place for westlife again.
VG meets Filan and Feehily at the luxurious Conrad Hotell in Chelsea Harbour in London. They¡¦ve juas had their make-up done and are about to do a TV-interview. Kian Egan doesn¡¦t look as good with his eyes glued to the computer (think he was checkin the boards?) before runnin away to meet someone. Nicky Byrne is home in Ireland
Credit: [westlifes_castle]
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