Music The comeback of one of the hottest boybands of the nineties, Backstreet Boys, turns out to be very successful. The new album, ‘DNA’, succeeded in getting the first place in the Billboard 200 to conquer, one of the most important American charts.
They have to wait a long time, but Nick, Brian, Howie, Kevin and AJ from Backstreet Boys have after 18 years and 2 months with their new album ‘DNA’ again a first place in the American chart Billboard 200 captured. The last time that they succeeded, in december of 2000. When camped their album ‘Black & Blue’ for two weeks at the top of the Billboard 200. ‘DNA’ was on 25 January, released, and went 234.000 times over the counter in the United States. This figure includes both the physical sales, as the streaming and download of the album.
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On that first instead of the Backstreet Boys are also a few fine facts connected. So it is eighteen years and two months between ‘Black & Blue’ and ‘DNA’, the second longest period between two number 1 albums, since Paul McCartney. That brought last year’s number 1 album ‘Egypt Station, 36 years, 3 months, and 10 days after the first place of ‘Tug of War’. ‘DNA’ is also the Backstreet Boys’ tenth top 10 album, and their best sales week since 2005. In 2005, they knew even 291.000 copies of ‘Never Gone’ to sell.
On Wednesday 22 may, Backstreet Boys in the Sportpaleis in Antwerp. Tickets are still available.
