Backstreet Boys

The Backstreet Boys, or BSB, is one of the best-selling musical groups of all time. The boy band and pop group rose to considerable popularity in the late 1990s. The five-member group consists of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, A.J. McLean and Kevin Richardson.

Discography

Worldwide albums charts

• Debut Date: The first date in which the item appeared on the chart (US dates unless specified).
• Peak: Top position the item achieved. Number in brackets indicate how many weeks and item spent at the #1 position.
• Certification: US RIAA album certification for units shipped. (eg. 2x Platinum mean 2 million units shipped)
• 1996/1997 Backstreet Boys
• The Backstreet Boys' worldwide debut album, which didn't top the US charts, but gave them their highest certified album to date (it was released in September 1996 in the UK).
• 1997 Backstreet's Back
• The Backstreet Boys' second UK (non-US) album, containing some tracks from the first, as well as some new/different tracks.
• 1999 Millennium
• The Backstreet Boys' sophomore US album, which set a record of 1.1 million units sold in one week according to SoundScan.
• 2000 Black & Blue
• With this album, the Backstreet Boys became the first artist to have two albums sell more than a million units in its first week. This being their third US album, sold 1.6 million copies in its opening week.
• Sold about 5.4 million copies in the U.S.
• 2001 '
• The Backstreet Boys didn't want to release a greatest hits album, but they were forced by their record label. This album was the result, and from it they released their last single until their return four years later.
• 2005 Never Gone
• The Backstreet Boys' comeback album, with this being their first studio album after nearly five years.
• Sold over 567,000 copies in the U.S. as of August 18, 2005.

Worldwide singles charts

• Debut Date: The first date in which the item appeared on the chart (US dates unless specified).
• Peak: Top position the item achieved. Number in brackets indicate how many weeks the item spent at the #1 position.
• Certification: US RIAA album certification for units shipped. (eg. 2x Platinum mean 2 million units shipped)
• Certification 2: (as of 2004) Due to the lack of impressive sales of singles, the RIAA has changed its format. Gold meaning 200,000 shipped and platinum 400,000 shipped with the respective multiple.

NC: Not Charted on the Billboard Hot 100, but on the Bubbling Under 100.

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The Backstreet Boys currently have had fourteen singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Twelve singles have reached the top 40, six of those singles have managed to reach the top ten. "We've Got It Goin' On" was on the Hot 100 for twenty weeks until it was retired due to its weak performance (Any single that stays under position 50 (51-100) for twenty weeks must be removed).

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Presently, the Backstreet Boys new single "Just Want You To Know" is playing on radios and it is the groups fifteenth single on the HOT 100.

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Interesting facts:

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• The Backstreet Boys spent 84 consecutive weeks on the Hot 100 between January 30, 1999 and September 2, 2000 with five various songs.
• "As Long As You Love Me" is one of the several songs that reached the top five on the airplay charts (it reached #4) but never charted the Billboard Hot 100.
• "All I Have to Give" reached its peak position in its second week. It debuted at 57 and shot to 5 in week two, staying in the top ten for nine weeks.
• "Incomplete" debuted at #1 on the Australian ARIAnet charts with sales exceeding the 35,000 gold limit, becoming the Backstreet Boys' first Australian #1 single.
• "KTBPA" is an acronym used by their most loyal fans, standing for "Keep The Backstreet Pride Alive."