![]() However, while No Strings Attached won the battle, Backstreet Boys’ album Millennium won the war: total sales for the albums stand at 12,250,000 for Millennium and 11,160,000 for No Strings Attached. And just for good measure, N’Sync also have the second best sales week ever: third album, Celebrity, sold just shy of 1.88 million copies upon release in July of 2001.Īccordingly, N’Sync should be declared the winners of this round. Records are meant to be broken, but unless the public starts buying albums again (unlikely) and/or Billboard radically changes the methodology for what counts as an album sale (possible), N’Sync’s one-week sales record will always stand. Taylor Swift, and possibly Adele, are the only artists who can even hope to sell one million copies - an enormous accomplishment - in a single week. For an album to sell 2.4 million copies in a single week today would require a powerful mix of the right artist at the right point in their career with the right marketing and a huge buzz-generating first single. The Backstreet Boys’ follow-up, Black and Blue, then sold 1,591,191 copies, making Backstreet Boys the first artist to have back-to-back albums debut with over a million in sales.īut this ended up being small potatoes compared to their rivals: N’Sync famously made history when they sold 2,415,859 copies of their second album, No Strings Attached, in late March of 2000.Ģ.4 million copies! That’s about as many copies as Beyonce’s last album - one of the best-selling albums of this decade - has sold in its entire run. This kickstarted a new trend of “fastest selling album” (essentially, who had the best first week sales) that everyone from Britney Spears to Eminem to Limp Bizkit were suddenly a part of. When Backstreet Boys’ second US album, Millennium, debuted in May of 1999, it sold 1,135,505 copies, breaking a one-week sales record previously held by the album-selling behemoth country music star Garth Brooks. In determining which boy band is the most definitive, many factors have to be considered album sales is usually where most arguments start. But it’s 2015, and we need to figure out once and for all which is the definitive boy band of the ‘90s. Naturally, because both bands’ career origins, level of success, and time in the spotlight were so similar, they have become forever intwined in pop culture’s collective unconscious. The result of the biggest mystery of all: why did it play out this way.Soon, both bands were dominating the pop landscape through the late ‘90s and into the early ‘00s. The rest, however, remain cloaked in mystery. But instead we have the only reality we know: Timberlake in his many chapeaus, singing songs about Troll movies, and Lance Bass hosting a show on Sirius XM (which he is good at). Also: why/WTF.) JC should’ve won the *NSYNC Olympics. And even now, in the aforementioned reunion photo, he looks most like a gentleman caller I would welcome into my open arms. Lance was fine (I mean, Lance was and continues to be a babe, so I think we can all appreciate that), but JC trumped all. He had a Broadway calibre voice, threw down his dance moves without a hint of irony, and did not have weird gelled curls atop his beautiful head. ![]() It’s JC’s 40th, and even Justin Timberlake is edging towards the truth: Chasez was the best *NSYNC-er of the bunch. And then, because the world is cruel, he was ousted by Justin Timberlake and his noodle locks who left the boys and became an entity unto himself, changing musical history as we now know it.īut today I say: look. well, his high notes (and okay fine also his hair) cemented him as the superior member. We all know, right? Now, two decades (ish) after *NSYNC chased the dreams laid out by BSB, I think we’re all ready to admit that JC’s high notes and. Which brings me to my next statement: know what? Know that, after nearly 20 years of *NSYNC glory, JC was the best singer of the group who deserved a successful solo career more than anybody? That he had the best hair? That he was also the handsomest? Is that what we’re supposed to know? Because damn Justin, we know. JC’s 40th… And, if you don’t know now you know…Ī photo posted by Justin Timberlake on at 11:05pm PDT
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