1 on the Billboard 200 - making the Backstreet Boys the world’s most enduring boy band.īoy bands, of course, are not built for longevity by design - there’s a reason why the boy band in the FOX animated series Bob’s Burgers is called, hilariously, Boyz 4 Now: the boys, eventually, turn into men. They’ve released nine studio albums, including 2019’s DNA - which debuted at No. Save for a brief hiatus in the 2000s and those few years when Richardson - the elder statesman of the band - left the group, the Backstreet Boys are on pace to celebrate their 30th anniversary as a band next year, having formed in Orlando in 1993 - a fact they, too, seemed in disbelief about. (If it felt like the Backstreet Boys were particularly ubiquitous in 1997, it could be because that was the year their debut dropped in America, dovetailing with the release of 1997’s sophomore album Backstreet’s Back.)īut no groups of their ilk have gone the distance the way BSB has. The Backstreet Boys have been titans of pop since they stormed the charts with their 1996 self-titled international debut as part of an explosion of boy bands in that decade. They know who their audience is and exactly what they want to hear. in an explosion of smoke, Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, AJ McLean and Kevin Richardson - perfectly choreographed, of course, right down to their co-ordinating red and black outfits - kicked it back to ‘96 and opened the show with I Wanna Be With You followed by 2000’s The Call and Don’t Want You Back from 1999’s Millennium. ★★★★ out of five Backstreet's back, all right! (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)Īrriving onstage just after 8:30 p.m. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism.
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