A Compilation Album of New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys

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NKOTBSB is a compilation album by American boy bands New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys. The album features five hits from each group, two new joint recordings "All in My Head" and "Don't Turn Out the Lights", as well as a megamix. The album debuted at number seven in the US, selling 40,000 in the first week of its release. The album coincides with the joint tour featuring the groups, starting at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois on May 25, 2011.

"Don't Turn Out the Lights" was released as the lead single from the album released by Legacy Recordings. The track made its first appearance in December on the BSB Cruise. The song premiered on On Air with Ryan Seacrest and released to iTunes the same day. The single debuted at number #14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Bubbling Under chart on April 14, 2011.


TRACKLISTING:
01. Step By Step
02. I Want It That Way
03. You Got It (The Right Stuff)
04. Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)
05. Please Don’t Go Girl
06. As Long As You Love Me
07. Hangin’ Tough
08. Larger Than Life
09. I’ll Be Loving You (Forever)
10. Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)
11. All In My Head
12. Don’t Turn Out the Lights (D.T.O.T.L.)
13. NKOTBSB Mash Up

Grab a copy of NKOTBSB at your favorite Odyssey and O Music and Video Stores now!

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Backstreet Boys And Carson Daly reunite to remember 'TRL' ‎

Looks like VH1 will be bringing MTV's "TRL" back to life once again. This time, however, it will be in an hour-long documentary on the iconic music and pop culture series.

The Emmy-nominated docu-series, "Rock Docs," will have an episode dedicated to "TRL" in its upcoming season featuring an interview with the original VJ himself, Carson Daly.

"Sitting down with @vh1 for the 1st official TRL doc," Daly tweets. "Memory lane here I come.....any must mention moments?"

It appears that the VJ needs a little help remembering what actually happened.

"I forgot how many times I was drunk from 98-03." He adds "Wowzers- this is fun."

Perhaps the Backstreet Boys can help him with his recall. They, too, will be featured in the documentary. The boy band has had their fair share of memorable moments on the show. Back in 2001, they took to the Times Square studio to share with fans that member, A.J. McLean, had entered rehab in the midst of their sold-out "Black & Blue" tour.

The "TRL" episode of "Rock Docs" is set to premiere in 2012. Now, tell us, what are some of your favorite "TRL" memories?

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Boyz II Men Surprises Fans At NKOTBSB Concert In Orlando And The Crowd Goes Wild!

New Kids On The Block and Back Street Boys got an evening of a lifetime when Boyz II Men took the stage and performed hits like ‘Motown Philly!

You must be totally jealous right now, because we are! Boyz II Men shocked thousands of diehard fans at the NKOTBSB concert on July 22 at the Amway Center in Orlando, Fl. The group who reached mega-fame in the early 90s took the stage with New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys at their concert and the audience went nuts!

All the boy bands sang Boys II Men hits like “Motown Philly,” “I’ll Make Love To You,” and “End of the Road.” The only thing that would have made that night more epic would be if *NSYNC had taken the stage!

Watch the video and tell us what YOU think!



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Flame still burns for Backstreet Boys 11 years later

A small, "Baked Apple Pie"-scented candle serves as a trophy from Jessica Guldner's adolescent brush with the Backstreet Boys.

Guldner and friend Sasha McAtee, then classmates at Creston Middle School in Warren Township, spent the afternoon of March 10, 2000, waiting at the entrance to Conseco Fieldhouse's underground garage.

The Backstreet Boys were in town for two sold-out shows at the arena, and Guldner and McAtee hoped for a behind-the-scenes glimpse of A.J. McLean, Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, Kevin Richardson or Howie Dorough. Especially McLean, as the 13-year-old girls wore customized "I-heart-A.J." hats.

While McLean may or may not have waved from a passing bus, Guldner scored a tangible souvenir when a member of the Backstreet road crew gave her the candle -- allegedly swiped from a singer's bus.

"I don't know whose bus it was on, but it was enough to make me happy that day," said Guldner, now 24.

She's attended six Backstreet concerts, from a 1998 date at the Murat Theatre to a 2008 comeback show at the Indiana State Fair.

Fortysomething boy bands have aged well with fans

By Kevin Joy

The Columbus Dispatch 

To be a New Kid on the Block - or a Backstreet Boy, for that matter - in 2011 requires a certain indifference to social and sartorial norms that would typically recede with time and age:

Safe, synchronized dance moves.

Semi-formalwear awash in sequins.

Startling bursts of pyrotechnics, steam and confetti.

Gratuitous crotch-grabbing.

But a female-heavy crowd squealingly embraced such tactics last night when the two boy bands joined forces for a two-hour-plus show that took nostalgia-hungry listeners - depending on the performers - back 10 years (the Backstreet Boys, which formed in Orlando, Fla., in the early 1990s) or two decades (the Boston-based New Kids were first assembled in 1984).

"It feels a lot like 1989 again," New Kids vocalist Joey McIntyre told a packed Value City Arena last night. "No matter what beautiful, time-traveling journey we're on, we don't intend for it to stop."

NKOTBSB brings the 90's back to Greensboro

If you are a female over the age of twenty, you have most likely heard of the New Kids on the Block, or the Backstreet Boys. These two boy bands have been melting the hearts of fans since 1989 and 1993, and have sold millions of CD's as well. Recently, these two groups have joined forces, creating NKOTBSB who stopped in Greensboro NC Saturday night, leaving fans reliving their teen years as well as proving that some bands just get better with age.

These bands were in their heyday at two completely different times, therefore, it is a wonder that they had the idea to come together. It all began when the Backstreet Boys(BSB) surprised the New Kids on the Block(NKOTB) at one of their concerts in 2010 that the idea of NKOTBSB came about. There was such a good reaction from the crowd that the groups continued to talk about doing a joint project together. In August 2010, it was officially announced that BSB and NKOTB would tour together as NKOTBSB, leaving fans anxious and excited to see their favorite childhood bands again on one stage.

Boy bands reunite to set female hearts aflutter again

By Kevin Joy

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH 

Nearly three decades ago, a novelty pop act of five boys started out playing to sparse crowds in New England shopping malls and ended up as a global force selling 70 million records and paving the way for scads of copycat "boy bands."

During their heyday, the New Kids on the Block enjoyed prime placement on 1980s MTV, neon-splashed magazines and even commemorative pillowcases. Their vocal chops, upbeat songs and ever-so-slightly edgy personas were a given.

Dreamy looks and rhinestone-studded denim? Like, duh, totally, you guys!

Joey McIntyre, now 38 but still the youngest member of the reunited quintet, harbors a different theory for the group's success.

"I think being from Boston comes to mind," said McIntyre, a native of the suburb of Needham, Mass. "For better or for worse, there's a lot of character that comes out of that city - a lot of attitude, a sense of what's right and what's wrong, taking care of one's own.

"Maybe it would have worked if we were from Columbus, Ohio."

But Beantown was where the local youths auditioned in 1984 for producer Maurice Starr, who had previously assembled the Boston urban-pop act New Edition.

New Kids on the Block/Backstreet Boys (aka NKOTBSB): Like fine wines and cheeses, boy bands age better with time

by Emily Sales

Last night at the KFC Yum! Center, the musical powerhouses of the New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys (aka NKOTBSB) crooned, winked, gyrated and grabbed their crotches to delight of throngs of screaming girls. If ever there was a concert that summed up my adolescence...this was it! I even once had a tear-stained Donnie Wahlberg pillowcase to prove my pubescent allegiance to the New Kids. So, can the boys still sing and dance? Allow me to answer that question with one unequivocally, girly shriek: YES!!!!

Despite the foreboding Groupon deal offering half-off tickets (or perhaps because of it) there was a decent sized crowd at the Yum! Center. I was expecting a stadium full of women my age, making the woeful march towards middle age. Surprisingly, the bulk of the concert attendees were young girls in their late teens and early twenties dressed up in strange rendition of what they thought was 80's fashion.

The evening kicked off with the opening act of Matthew Morrison from the Fox hit-show, Glee. Mr. Schue did a strange assortment of covers performed on the show as well as some original songs. The crowd at the Yum! Center seemed to really enjoy his rendition of Kanye West's “Gold Digger,” but I was underwhelmed. There was something really disturbing about an obvious musical theater-geek, (I can smell my own, people) singing the lyrics: “she ain't messin' wit no broke !@#$%^'.” On the other extreme, Morrison's own songs were sappy and somewhat trite. His whole act just reeked of a cruise ship.

Screaming women! Spilled beer! Lost lip gloss! New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys drive 'em wild at The Q

Washington, D.C., could learn a thing or two from these guys.

When New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys teamed up for a nostalgic double bill Wednesday evening at The Q in Cleveland, it was a historic display of boy-band bipartisanship.

Each group favored a different approach to dealing with the impending national heartbreak crisis. Of course, the fact that there even is an impending national heartbreak crisis was news to some of us.

New Kids on the Block came out in support of austere measures -- i.e., “Hangin’ Tough.” Backstreet Boys came out in support of transparency -- i.e., “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart).”

Yet in the end, both parties agreed to put aside their profound philosophical differences in favor of dancing the night away, to the delight of 12,000 supporters.

Brian Littrell of Backstreet Boys talks about the band, fans and rivals

Brian Littrell, member of the Backstreet Boys and heartthrob at large, is making his way to Hershey. The same man whose faced grinned from posters on bedroom walls and covers of teen magazines has joined up with his band mates and New Kids on the Block for a concert tour that makes every boy-band fan's dream come true. Their next destination? Hersheypark Stadium Saturday.
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Even if the name Backstreet Boys sounds foreign, chances are you know their music. The group shot to fame in the late 90s with hits like “Quit Playing Games With My Heart,” and “I Want It That Way.” Six of the group's albums have been in the Billboard 200 Top 10. It has recorded numerous hit songs and has been nominated for seven Grammy Awards.

When BSB's first U.S. album debuted in 1997, Littrell’s photo made elementary students squeal. Now, 14 years later, those same kids are adults — and many have kept on screaming.

The band has done a fair bit of growing as well. Their music has changed from standard boy band pop to acoustic rock to dance and they lost a member, Kevin Richardson. Littrell has shed his nickname “B-Rock,” in favor of his first name. “I’ve kinda out grown that phase,” he says.

“I got that title growing up as a Backstreet Boy, being a young man,” he says. “That’s not really my title now. I’m a grown man, husband, father.”

Review: Boy bands show a touch of humility

The oldest trick in a heartthrob's book -- pull a girl out of the audience for a one-on-one serenade -- crystallized the appeal of Tuesday night's New Kids on the Block/Backstreet Boys concert at Conseco Fieldhouse.

A 20-something fan named Paige served as proxy for nearly everyone in the estimated audience of 13,000 when Backstreet's Nick Carter applied his Casanova moves during a rendition of "I'll Never Break Your Heart."

He locked eyes at close range, writhed on the floor and repeatedly teased Paige with a single rose before surrendering the prize. She more or less hyperventilated.

Carter and fellow vocalists on the dual tour billed as "NKOTBSB" brought dimensions of gratitude and humility not readily apparent when New Kids thrived as a money machine in the late-'80s and Backstreet stormed the international scene a few years later.

"NKOTBSB" is still a major production, with the best seats selling for $91.50 each. A catwalk stretched from one end of the arena to the other, allowing close-up views for fans as the singers walked back and forth.

NKOTBSB at Staples Center: Concert Review

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.

Kevin Richardson joins Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block in Los Angeles

Stuff like this really makes us wish we still had a Lisa Frank Trapper-Keeper on which to scribble "I HEART BSB." It's often the only way to adequately describe our emotions.

Kevin Richardson, who left the Backstreet Boys amicably in 2006, got back together with his old buddies (and some new kids) for the July 1st Los Angeles stop of the enormous NKOTBSB tour at the Staples Center.

Richardson and the rest of the Backstreet Boys wore Lakers' jerseys, while the New Kids on the Block kept their Boston pride going with Celtics jerseys. Richardson joined former bandmates Brian Littrell, Nick Carter, A.J. McLean, and Howie Dorough on "I Want It That Way" and even participated in the big NKOTBSB finale.

Richardson jumped on Twitter for the first time since April after the show. "Beautiful night with my brothas on stage in LA," he wrote. "Much respect and love for the NKOTB. Thanks for making me feel welcome."

Richardson recently won an Independent Vision Award for Best Actor, for his role in "The Casserole Club," an indie film about a group of competitive 1960s housewives.

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Backstreet Boys tunes could feature on Glee

Holders of Glee Live! tickets might be interested to hear that the hit television series could soon feature the music of one of the most successful boy bands of the 1990s.

Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys has revealed that the group would be more than happy for some of their songs to be used on the show.

Previously, the cast of Glee have performed their own versions of hits originally recorded by the likes of Madonna, Lady Gaga and Rihanna.

Asked how the group would feel about their music receiving the Glee treatment, Carter told Hollywood Scoop: "It's an amazing show. Of course we would do it."

Other acts have not been so amenable, with Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon and Red Hot Chili Peppers all turning down requests for their songs to feature in the series.

Glee Live! will be wowing fans at London's O2 Arena for the next three nights, running until June 30th.

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Backstreet Boys announce second annual cruise (!) in December

The Backstreet Boys loved their first cruise with fans so much that they’re coming back for more, setting sail in December for three days of fun, music and parties.

Presented by Rose Tours, the three-day Bahamas adventure begins in Miami aboard the Carnival Imagination Dec. 2 and includes a private beach party, games, contests, BSB Q&As and, of course, plenty of performances by your favorite boy band all grown up.

Yes, you could be one of the lucky passengers traveling on a cruise ship filled exclusively with fans of the Backstreet Boys. But you need to book your room before you can party with Nick, Howie, Brian and A.J. Visit BackstreetBoysCruise.com for more information.

--Jay Smith 

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Review: New Kids, Backstreet Boys shine in San Jose

Lisa Picazo bought more than a ticket to a concert. The 43-year-old San Jose resident purchased transport on a de facto time machine, one that took her straight back to her high school years and memories of doing cheerleading routines to New Kids on the Block songs.

Then the houselights dimmed and the spotlights hit the stage, revealing the actual New Kids -- no longer "New," nor "Kids" -- on Saturday night at the HP Pavilion in San Jose. And the time machine was really off and running.

"We're cheerleaders again!" exclaimed Picazo, who was attending the show with her 39-year-old friend Tami Paez of San Jose.