Backstreet Boys

Male vocal group

The group has sold more than 73 million records worldwide. BACKSTREET BOYS made history when all 765,000 tickets for their greatlyanticipated 11-week, 39-city 1999-2000 North American arena tour sold out assoon as they went on sale-the vast majority within an hour. Their first studio album in almost five years, NEVER GONE was releasedJune 2005. BLACK & BLUE debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and hassold more than 5 million albums in the U.S. Both U.S. albumsBACKSTREET BOYS (1997) and MILLENNIUM (1999)received the Diamond Award from the R.I.A.A. for sales of more than 10 millioneach. MILLENNIUM entered the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart at #1, having sold1,134,000 copies in the first week of release and sold nearly 500,000 copies aloneits first day out in the U.S. MILLENNIUM dominated the worldwide charts, landing at the #1 spot inAustria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong,Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway,Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, andThailand. I Want It That Way reached #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Charts;#1 on the Billboard Top 40 Tracks; and #6 on Billboard Hot 100. The songalso reached #1 in the U.K., Italy, Spain, Holland, Canada, Austria, Switzerland,Norway, Sweden, Singapore, Malaysia, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Croatia,Germany, and Pan Europe.