No Matter What (Boyzone song)

"No Matter What"
Single by Boyzone
from the album Songs from Whistle Down the Wind and Where We Belong
Released	3 August 1998 (1998-08-03)
Studio	Skratch, Metropolis, Sarm West (London, England) FLM (Hollywood, California) Barking Dog (New York City)
Length	4:34
Label	Polydor
Composer(s)	Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyricist(s)	Jim Steinman
Producer(s)	Jim Steinman Andrew Lloyd Webber Nigel Wright
Boyzone singles chronology
"All That I Need" (1998) "No Matter What" (1998) "I Love the Way You Love Me" (1998)
Music video
"No Matter What" on YouTube

"No Matter What" is a song from the 1996 musical Whistle Down the Wind that was popularised by Irish boyband Boyzone in 1998 when they recorded it to tie in with the show's first UK production. The song was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman, while Lloyd Webber, Steinman and Nigel Wright produced the track, with additional production by Franglen & Lupino. The song was also featured on the US edition of the soundtrack to the 1999 film Notting Hill, and was released to American radio on 10 May 1999.

The song became their fourth number-one on the UK Singles Chart, with its three-week stay atop the chart making it Boyzone's longest-running number-one single. It also became the band's first and only song to have any chart success in the US. Jewels & Stone did a remix for the song for dance clubs which was popular. In the UK, the song has sold 1.15 million copies and another 3 million worldwide.^[1] The song was performed by Meat Loaf as part of a medley with another number from Whistle Down the Wind, "Home by Now", in his 1998 compilation album The Very Best of Meat Loaf and individually as a B-side to his 1998 single "A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste" and to his 1999 single "Is Nothing Sacred", and by Luciano Pavarotti as a duet with Boyzone in the live concert and album Pavarotti & Friends for Guatemala and Kosovo.