Backstreet Boys announce 20th anniversary tour, album

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The Backstreet Boys are releasing a new album and embarking on a tour to mark their 20th anniversary as a band.

The Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) hitmakers formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993, and to celebrate their two decades together they are heading out on the road.

The band announced the news on Ryan Seacrest’s U.S. radio show on Monday morning, and singer Nick Carter declared, “That’s right, baby! All five of us are back together. It’s our 20th anniversary tour. We’ve got a brand new album coming out.”

The trek will kick off in Chicago, Illinois on August 2 and will feature Jesse McCartney and Paul ‘DJ Pauly D’ Delvecchio. [Source]

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Jan 24,2013

Backstreet Boys will start world tour in China

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The Backstreet Boys are a five-man ensemble once again. The boy band are in Beijing to announce the start of their 20th anniversary world tour in China this May.

The multi-platinum group, best known for hits like I Want It That Way, Backstreets Back and Quit Playing Games With My Heart, will tour several Chinese cities including Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing, and Xi’an.

The five members, Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, AJ McLean and Kevin Richardson, wore traditional Chinese red coats to greet their Chinese fans with the traditional Chinese Spring Festival so close (Feb 9.) [Source]

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Dec 19,2011

Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys to perform Crocodile Rock in Allentown

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Yes, it is true. Nick Carter, best known for his role in the dreamy boy band, The Backstreet Boys, is coming to Allentown. He will perform 8 p.m. Feb. 8 at Crocodile Rock in Allentown, according to a news release.

Tickets for the show go on sale 10 a.m. Tuesday for $25 in advance. The price will go up to $27 the day of the show.

Now 31-year-old, Carter has starred in his own reality show “House of Carters,” embarked on a solo career and dated Paris Hilton since his rise to fame with the Backstreet Boys.

Earning eight Grammy nominations and selling more than 130 million albums with the group, he recently came off a super-group tour with the Backstreet Boys and the New Kids on the Block, according to a news release. His latest album, “I’m Taking Off,” was released in the U.S. in February.

For more information on Carter’s Allentown performance including where to purchase tickets, visit slpconcerts.net or crocodilerockcafe.com. [Source]

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Dec 19,2011

New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys to tour in May

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After dominating different generations of teenagers with their boy band antics, New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys are bringing their NKOTBSB tour/clumsy acronym to Australia in May.

The two groups are only performing four shows, stopping in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney, with tickets on sale from December 8.

Donnie Wahlberg said of the visit to Australia: “If our fans want us down under, we’ll go down under. Our international fans have been flying to see us stateside for years, so now we are bringing the show to them. Get ready Australia, we are coming to you!” We can only imagine he was wearing this when he made that statement.

These shows are likely to sell out quickly, considering the massive impact both artists had on generations of teens/pre-teens who now fit squarely in the ‘nostalgic for their younger years’ bracket. Between the two groups, they have record sales totalling more than twenty million units. Read the rest of this entry »

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Jul 04,2011

NKOTBSB at Staples Center: Concert Review

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The combined supergroup featuring New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys took concertgoers back in time with a highly energetic and entertaining show.

Barely a tween was to be found at the concert headlined by boy-band supergroup NKOTBSB on Friday night, but you’d hardly know it from the deafening screams inside the packed Staples Center in Los Angeles.

While the fans may have gotten older, it seems their appreciation for late-‘80s /early-‘90s hitmakers New Kids on the Block and late-‘90s/early-2000s mega-sellers Backstreet Boys hasn’t diminished. (It’s likely that the mostly twenty- and thirtysomething female audience — who stood pretty much during the entire 2 1/2-hour show — was comprised nearly entirely of fans who had grown up with one of the bands, and this probably wasn’t their first time seeing them in person based on the vintage concert tees some sported.)

But from the start, NKOTB and BSB came out to entertain, and the audience didn’t leave disappointed. Sure, the costumes may be less flashy, the hair a little thinner and the voices a bit lower — the Kids and Boys are now in their thirties and forties — but inside Staples Center, fans were transported back in time. The groups knew what the fans wanted — hit songs, flashes of skin and some well-choreographed dance moves — and they more than delivered. Read the rest of this entry »

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