Sept 5:
Sept 2: Aug 31:
Aug 29:
Aug 2:
July 29:
July 13 ,'99:
June 29, '99:
June 27, '99:
~Vote 4 BSB on MTV Viewer's Choice AWARDS!
http://www.mtv.com/mtv/tubescan/vma99/viewerschoice/
~AJ got a dragon on his back,Nick embellished the musical note on his
back,
Brian added to his “The Lord is my Rock" tattoo (from tommy's site)
~Rehersals start on the 6th for the Tour.
~tHE video for Larger Than Life should be out sometime in September.
~The Backstreet Boys' self-titled debut album has been certified 11X platinum as of August 27th, 1999.
Billboard Charts
Christina Aguilera moved more than 252,000 copies of her album to land atop the Billboard charts. Puff Daddy checked in at no. 2 with just over 205,000 albums sold while Millennium slips to No.3 selling more than 200,000 in its 15th week in release.
~According to the group's management, Backstreet Boys sold 765,000 tickets
on Saturday, and in the process sold out all 53 dates of the group's Into
the Millennium Tour, which runs from Sept. 14 through Dec. 12.
~BSB sell out 53 shows in one day. $30 millenion dollars worth of tickets.
Backstreet is only doing a concert in 3 of the Canadian cities - Toronto,
Ottowa & Montreal. This is because more dATES have been
added to the US tour.
~For the MTV vid awards, the Boys are to perform.......however, i'm not
too
sure what song that would be.
~SEARS will be holding an OFFICIAL BSB merchandise sale in their store.
They will also give away free posters each week with your purchase
~I Want it That Way will be taken off of TRL on august 3rd. Keep voting to
make it stay number 1 before its retirement.
~The Boys' christmas album is set to be released in October.
~The Boys are filming a show in Barcelona. We'll have to wait & see if it
will soon be shelved & sold.
~AJ broke up with Amanda & is now going out with one of the
dancers.......now that is just sad......he already has another girlfriend.
~Steven Tyler from Aerosmith talked about songwriting with BSB (according
to
Tommy Smith)
~Larger Than life video is to be shot at the end of august.
~The BSB have been nominated in 4 categories for the '99 MTV Video Music
Awards (VMA). There are 20 award categories. The awards will be held on
September 9'th and will be hosted by Chris Rock.
The categories where the Boys have been nominated are are:
Video Of The Year
Backstreet Boys, "I Want It That Way"
Lauryn Hill, "Doo Wop (That Thing)"
Korn, "Freak On A Leash"
Ricky Martin, "Livin' La Vida Loca"
Will Smith (featuring Dru Hill & Kool Moe Dee), "Wild, Wild West"
Viewers Choice
Backstreet Boys, "I Want It That Way"
Jay-Z (featuring Ja Rule & Amil-Lion), "Can I Get A..."
Korn, "Freak On A Leash"
Ricky Martin, "Livin' La Vida Loca"
'N Sync, "Tearin' Up My Heart"
TLC, "No Scrubs"
Best Pop Video
Backstreet Boys, "I Want It That Way"
Jennifer Lopez, "If You Had My Love"
Ricky Martin, "Livin' La Vida Loca"
'N Sync, "Tearin' Up My Heart"
Britney Spears, "Baby One More Time"
Best Group Video
Backstreet Boys, "I Want It That Way"
Limp Bizkit, "Nookie"
'N Sync, "Tearin' Up My Heart"
Sugar Ray, "Every Morning"
TLC, "No Scrubs"
~Nick makes his solo album. It will appear in the
autumn, and demo tape will be ready in September at
the end of BSB' europian tour. Nick said:"I'd like to
write love songs and do soft rock like Bryan
Adams".
~According to billboard.com, IWITW is #1 on the Hot
100 airplay chart. This means it's the most played
song on the radio in America.
~Kevin is sick with the flu.
~Nicky got 2 tattoos. He has one of a shark on his left upper arm & one of a music note on his back.
~AJ broke up with Amanda in which he stated on HITList.
~AJ shaved off his goatee on Tuesday the 22 because he
thought it was time for a change.
~The Backstreet Boys CD, Millennium was certified 5x
platinum (sales of 5 million copies worldwide) by the
Record Industry Association of America (RIAA).
~Mariah called the Backstreet Boys to ask them if they
would like to record a duet with her.
~Brian is NOT sick & is not leaving the tour.
~( sorry this is a little old) For the Blockbuster awards the Boys won for best
group & Fave CD.
~Millennium" is currently #1 on the album charts in 12
countries and has been certified platinum in 21
countries in 7 days only. IWITW is currently at #1 in
Canada and is as well #1 in most countries where it
has been commercially released.