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Backstreet BoysTickets Information
The group is made up of:
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Brian Littrell
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Nick Carter
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Howie Dorough
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A.J. McLean
A fifth member, Kevin Richardson, left the band in 2006 to pursue domestic family life, but the B-Boys go on!
The first boy band brought together by Lou Pearlman, inspired by how successful the similarly-structured group New Kids on the Block was becoming, the Backstreet Boys came together in 1993 after a slew of exhaustive and exhausting auditions. And from the release of their self-titled debut, they were headed straight for the stars.
Their second album in the U.S. (third internationally, after “Backstreet’s Back”) was called “Millennium” and cemented their position as musical icons. That album brought audiences favorites like I Want it That Way, Larger Than Life, Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely, and The One.
From there came “Black & Blue” and Shape of My Heart, The Call, More Than That. And after a greatest hits release called “The Hits: Chapter One” came “Never Gone” with Incomplete, Just Want You to Know, Crawling Back to You, and I Still…
Between 1995 and the present, the Backstreet Boys have won a bevy of awards for their work, including three MTV Europe Music Awards, among them Best Newcomer, and in a phone-in poll, Best Group. The following year they won three more MTV Europe Music Awards, including the official Best Group award as well as Best Group, viewer's choice. Their first Grammy nomination came in 1999, for Best New Artist.
And that wasn’t all that 1999 brought the band, surely one of the biggest years of their career, as it was the year they won four World Music Awards (World’s Best-Selling American Group, Pop Group, R&B Group, and Dance Artist), 13 Rolling Stone Magazine Awards (including #1 Band of the Year, Album of the Year, and Single of the Year in both the Reader’s Poll and Critic’s Poll), 14 #1 positions on Entertainment Weekly reader pools, VH1’s Band of the Year and Album of the Year, and the RIAA’s Band of the Year and Album of the Year – among many, many more.
1999 was also the year the Backstreet Boys were entered into the Guinness Book of World Records eight times over, including Best Sales Week in History, Fastest Selling Album in a Year, Most Radio Station Adds in First Week, and Most Tickets Sold in One Day.
But that wasn’t the end for the Backstreet Boys, as the new millennium saw them receiving five more Grammy nominations and many of the same awards they’d won the previous year, repeating that feat again in 2001.
The long and short of it is, the Backstreet Boys are more than merely a successful boy band; they’re industry icons whose popularity will undoubtedly never wane, so long as they’re recording and performing together.
The Backstreet Boys will be bringing their trademarked brand of harmonies, beats, and synchronized moves to the stage once more, in promotion of their 2007 release, “Unbreakable.”
The tour starts July 29 at Mile One Stadium in St. John’s, NF with their first U.S. show on August 8 at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Detroit, Michigan, making stops throughout North America (the U.S. and Canada both) until September 6 at the Marymoor Amphitheater in Seattle, Washington.
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