Some articles on boy bands, boys, boy band, band:
... Even though clean-cut boy bands like Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync reached success before TRL began in the fall of 1998, both groups only reached their commercial peaks after their videos ... In 1999, the Backstreet Boys' second LP, Millennium, achieved the highest first week sales ever from an LP ... when their second LP, No Strings Attached, topped the Backstreet Boys' first week sales ...
... Boy bands were very popular during 1999 and probably bigger than they had been compared to any other year during the 1990s ... Their peak of popularity as a boy band was short-lived as many more successful groups eclipsed them ... A1 were another British boy band who joined the music scene during the year, scoring three top ten singles, including "Be The First To Believe" and "Summertim ...
... The Boy Bands Have Won is the 13th studio album by British music group Chumbawamba released in 2008 ... its shorter version, which is simply The Boy Bands Have Won ...
... The earliest predecessors of the boy band genre were groups such as The Osmonds, The Jackson 5, and The Monkees, which helped form the template for boy bands ... originally a manufactured act turned real band that featured members with distinct (albeit fictional) personality types, The Jackson 5 were a family group that ... All members of the band sang, which is a common convention of a boy band, as opposed to having a front man and the rest on instruments ...
... The earliest form of boy band music took place in the late 19th century with the use of a capella Barbershop quartets ... Doo wop was a predecessor to the previous boy bands and they sung about topics such as love and other themes used in pop music ... The earliest traces of boy bands were in the mid 1950s although the term boy band was not used ...
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