Backstreet Boys Trivias

According to Guinness Book of World Records in 2001, "the biggest boyband in history" is the Backstreet Boys when they achieved record-breaking sales of 13 million copies of their album Millennium by March 2001.

According to RIAA, the Backstreet Boys have sold over 30 million copies worldwide of their first two discs, Backstreet Boys (30 million) and Millennium (33 million).

The Backstreet Boys are the only artists to win a record four World Music Awards for three years in a row since 1999-2001.

The Backstreet Boys' 2001 "Black & Blue World Tour" earned US$350 million in ticket sales, making the band the world's highest-paid live entertainers and replacing the Rolling Stones as the world's No. 1 live band.

According to Jive Records, the band is "the highest selling boy band of all time", selling over 90 million albums worldwide.

US$14 million of merchandise was purchased by fans during the 1999 "Into The Millennium" tour.

The Backstreet Boys have sold a total 200 million books worldwide.

"I Want It That Way" has been ranked No. 10 on Rolling Stone & MTV's 100 Greatest Pop Songs list.

The band performed the national anthem at Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa, Florida in 2001.

All 765,000 tickets for a 1999-2000 North American arena tour sold out on the first day they were made avalaible.

In 2001 over one million tickets for the "2001 Black & Blue U.S. Tour" were sold during the first 24 hours of availability.

The Backstreet Boys teamed with Stan Lee to produce a Web-based franchise chronicling the adventures of the Backstreet Boys as cyber-crusaders named The Backstreet Project. The project debuted as a limited-edition collector's comic book that was sold exclusively at Backstreet Boys concerts. The animated series was launched on the Web in the summer of 2000 using Macromedia Flash animation and was sold out on the first day.

On the first episode of MTV's Total Request Live in 1998, the #1 video was "I'll Never Break Your Heart".