"World of Our Own" is a song by Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 boyband Westlife

Westlife

Westlife are an Irish boy band established on 3 July 1998. They are to disband in 2012. The group's line-up was Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden . The group are the only act in British and Irish history to have their first seven singles peak at number one...

 recorded for their third studio album of the same name

World of Our Own

World of Our Own is the third studio album by the Irish boyband Westlife, released on 12 November 2001. It reached number one in the United Kingdom and includes the singles "Queen of My Heart" , "World of Our Own" , "Bop Bop Baby", and the final single from the group's last album,...

. The song peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

, becoming their 10th number-one single. This addition made them a part of a small group of artists in British chart history to achieve this feat. The song's popularity peaked when it was featured in the children's feature film You Wish!. The song 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. According to MTV, the single has sold sold 225,000 copies in the United Kingdom.

Music video

The video of this song is rat-pack styled. The band members are dressed up as gangsters and they enter in an American jeep. Until the first chorus, the band members sing beneath a bridge. Then, they go to the balcony of a futurisitc 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 of the song as well, this one being a bit mature and deviating from the band's earlier innocent-type videos. The video features the band singing in an abandoned building with broken walls and surrounded by shrubbery. The video occassionally 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 boys recording the song in a studio.

Track listings

• United Kingdom

CD1

1. "World Of Our Own" (Single Remix) - 3:28
2. "Crying Girl" - 3:39
3. "Angel" (Single Remix) - 4:22
4. "World Of Our Own" (Video) - 3:28

CD2

1. "World Of Our Own" (Single Remix) - 3:28
2. "I Promise You That" - 3:35
3. "Angel" (Video) - 4:22

DVD

1. "World Of Our Own" (Video) - 3:28
2. "Angel" (Video) - 4:22
3. "Behind The Scenes Footage"
4. "Band Messages"

• Japan

1. "World Of Our Own" (Single Remix) - 3:28
2. "Queen Of My Heart" (Radio Edit) - 4:20
3. "Crying Girl" - 3:39
4. "I Promise You That" - 3:35
5. "Uptown Girl" (Radio Edit) - 3:06
6. "My Love" (Radio Edit) - 3:52
7. "Against All Odds" (Featuring Mariah Carey) - 3:21
8. "En Ti Deje Mi Amor" (Single Remix) - 3:29
9. "Con Lo Bien Que Te" (Single Remix) - 3:52
10. "World Of Our Own" (U.S. Remix) - 3:29

Chart performance

Chart	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	21
Austrian Singles Chart	10
Danish Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...  Singles Chart	5
Netherlands Singles Chart Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	29
German Singles Chart	11
Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...	3
Italian Singles Chart	41
New Zealand Singles Chart Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand...	6
Norwegian Singles Chart VG-lista VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by...	13
Swedish Singles Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	11
Swiss Singles Chart Swiss Music Charts The Swiss Music Charts are Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland.The Swiss Charts include:* Singles Top 75...	26
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	1
UK Airplay Chart	3
U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  Pop Airplay Chart	41

Year-end charts

Chart (2002)	Position
UK Singles Chart	40

Release history

Country	Release date
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	February 18, 2002
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	May 14, 2002

External links

• "World of Our Own" (UK version) official music video
• Official Westlife website