Spectrum is the eleventh studio album by Irish pop vocal band Westlife, released on 15 November 2019 through Virgin EMI Records.

[1] It includes the singles "Hello My Love", "Better Man", "Dynamite" and "My Blood", and features songs co-written by Ed Sheeran, Steve Mac, Ryan Tedder, Camille Purcell, and James Bay.

[4][5] After releasing their second Greatest Hits album and tour dates and Westlife announced their breakup in 2011 and made their final appearance together in 2012.

"[8] Byrne expressed in an Instagram post, "It’s an album we thought out in great detail, as grown up men we approached everything very differently.

"[9] The album was recorded in Dublin, London, and Los Angeles with the band saying it "has everything that we love in music, heartfelt emotional songs and also great uptempos that are designed for our stadium performances".

"[15] On 12 November 2019, they confirmed in a Facebook live video that the album contains three ballads and the song "Take Me There" is uptempo.

The music video was shot in Arena Birmingham in the United Kingdom and in Croke Park Stadium in Dublin, Ireland where they performed the song live for the first time.

In an interview with Daily Star on 13 September 2019, Byrne explained: "It's about growing up, it's a love song.

You can see Ed is talking about being a parent and watching your child grow up and giving them the best tools to deal with life like bullying."

[36] Filming for the music video began on 14 September 2019 in Bray, Ireland and it features the band members' children.

The full music video was published on the band's YouTube page on the day of the song's release.

"My Blood" ended up peaking at number ninety-six on the UK Singles Chart and becoming their 30th top 100 hit.

The first leg started in Belfast on 22 May 2019 at the SSE Arena before moving throughout mainland Europe and concluding in Dublin at Croke Park on 6 July 2019.

The second leg began on 24 July at the IMPACT Arena in Bangkok, Thailand and continues throughout the Asia with multiple dates at each venue.

[38] He also said that the five songs written with Ed Sheeran "pushes them towards a contemporary sound with surprising energy".

[38] Edwin McFee from Hot Press wrote that "Spectrum has plenty of stumbles along the way, mind, and features more fluff than the residents of Sesame Street.

[41] According to Music Week, this was the 2019 fifth-highest sale achieved by a number-one album in the UK at that time.