The group’s new single in China was performed entirely in Mandarin by using artificial intelligence.
Love + Courage, a cover of Jason Zhang’s 2016 hit, is available in China through Tencent Music Entertainment. The single amassed more than a millon streams in its first week.
The multi-million selling four piece are already one of the biggest international artists of all time in China. Westlife are one of the most popular International groups on Weibo and on WeChat Channels, two of the most significant Chinese social platforms.
They also hold the record for the largest live audience ever achieved for a livestream concert, dueting with Backstreet Boys and achieving 44 million real-time viewers on WeChat.
Over the past year, the band have played 13 stadium shows, 10 arena shows and have performed to over 300,000 fans across China – the biggest tour ever conducted by an international artist in Greater China.
The one-off release of Love + Courage has harnessed the power of AI technology by re-creating the group’s vocals using Kugou AIK, the world’s first multi-lingual AI singing technology. Westlife personally oversaw the entire creative process over a number of months and were fully involved in the final version.
Kugou AIK enables users to sing and record songs in 10 languages and 15 Chinese dialects, including English, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, and more.
