Black & Blue – Backstreet Boys – 2000 Claimed Sales: 24m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music Let’s start with addressing the elephant in the room first off. The official album artwork for Black & Blue, an album that sold 1.6 million copies in a single week in the US; an album that was the follow up to … Continue reading
Millennium – Backstreet Boys – 1999 Claimed Sales: 24m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: CD To say that the follow up to Backstreet’s Back was highly anticipated is a massive understatement and nearly 2 years after the various versions of that album took over the world Millennium was released. It sold 1.134 million copies in its debut week, breaking … Continue reading
Backstreet Boys/Backstreet’s Back – Backstreet Boys – 1997 Claimed Sales: 24m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: CD/Apple Music Possible the most confusing album release I’ve covered in this series, for some reason the debut album for the 90s most prolific boyband was never released in their home country of the US. Backstreet Boys was a commercial smash … Continue reading
