NKOTB Accomplishments
This Information taken from the inside cover of their Greatest Hits album.
These are just some of their great accomplishments. If you know of any more, please email me at nkotbfanclub@aol.com

Album Hangin' Tough took over the number one potions on Billboard's Top Pop Albums and Hot 100 singles charts on September 9, 1989

"Please Don't Go Girl" #10

"You Got It (The Right Stuff)" #3 and RIAA Gold

"I'll Be Loving You (Forever) #1 and RIAA Gold

They became the first teen group in history to notch four Top 10 hits from one album. This incredible chart run, spanning more than more than 15 months, went over the top with the albums fifth hit, "Cover Girl" (#2, RIAA Gold). Neither the Osmonds nor the Jackson 5 had ever achieved such chart success from one LP.

"Hangin' Tough" spent 132 weeks (more than 2 and a half years) on the Billboard chart.

A single from their Merry, Merry Christmas album intitled "This One's For the Children" went to #7 and was RIAA Gold. The proceeds from this singal were donated to United Cerebral Palsy.

"Step by Step" (#1, RIAA Platinum b/w the non-album track "Valentine Girl"), and "Tonight"(#7), the latter two from the 3-million selling Step by Step album - extended the consecutive Top 10 signles chart run to an amazing nine records.

100.000 calls per week were pouring into 1-900-909-5KIDS.

The Official Fan Club, with membership over 100,000 names, was logging some 30,000fan letters a day.

In one promotion alone, 180,000 New Kids schoolbook covers were distributed to students via 80 radio stations nationwide.

They were performing 250 concerts a year, with 1990's "Magic Summer" tour alone attended by 2 million fans.

Their pay-per-view special was the biggest in cable tv history to that date.

By early 1991, their lon'form videos had amassed more than three and half million sales, that's 70-times ITA Platinum.

More than 140 products were licensed with New Kids trademarks, from lunch boxes and packing trunks to cuddly sleeping bags.

In September of 1990, the New Kids, along with their manager Dick Scott and producer Maurice Starr, became subjects of a Saturday morning ABC-TV cartoon series.