Fast Facts

• The members of Backstreet Boys came up with the group's name while eating at TGI Friday's, where they sat in a booth from which they could see the entrance to Backstreet Market, an Orlando, FL, flea market.
• AJ McLean first auditioned for the group that would become Backstreet Boys by singing a New Kids On The Block song for Lou Pearlman.
• Nick Carter had a blink-and-you'll-miss-him role in the quirky Johnny Depp film "Edward Scissorhands."
• Brian Littrell was the final person to join Backstreet Boys after being encouraged to audition by his cousin, Kevin Richardson, in a phone call on April 19, 1993.
• Before becoming a Backstreet Boy, Howie Dorough used "Tony Donetti" as a stage name.
• The "Into the Millennium" tour grossed $37.1 million in North America in 1999.
• In the summer of 1996, Backstreet Boys headlined a sold-out, 57-date European tour.
• BSB won the People Choice Award for favorite musical group in January 2000.
• Backstreet Boys sold out the entire first leg of its "Into the Millennium" US tour - 53 shows, 765,000 tickets - in ONE day in August 1999.
• "Millennium" sold 9,445,732 copies in the US in 1999, making it the top-selling album of the year according to SoundScan.
• The Backstreet Boys' first official show occured on Saturday, May 8, 1993, at the Nautilas Theater in Orlando's Sea World amusement park. Among the group's songs was an a cappella version of Shai's "If I Ever Fall In Love."
• Three of the Backstreet Boys' home videos - Backstreet Boys: All Access Video, A Night Out With The Backstreet Boys, and Homecoming: Live in Orlando - made the list of top-selling music videos of 1999 according to Billboard magazine. The videos ranked second, third, and fourth, respectively, on the year-end chart.
• MuchMusic, Canada's music video network, had two Backstreet Boys videos atop its chart of the top 90 videos of 1999. "I Want It That Way" was No. 1, followed by "Larger Than Life" at No. 2.
• Backstreet Boys recorded three songs in the summer of 1995 in a collaboration with Sweden's Denniz Pop: "We've Got It Goin' On," "Quit Playing Games," and "Nobody But You."
• Backstreet Boys placed three of its videos in MTV's Top 99 of 1999. "I Want It That Way" snagged the No. 1 spot, followed by "Larger Than Life" at No. 12, and "All I Have To Give" at No. 34.
• On August 12, 1997, Jive Records released the Backstreet Boys' US debut album, which included all of the group's international hits plus a few new songs. So far, the Backstreet Boys' debut album has sold more than 12 million copies in the US.