Backstreet's Back...All Right!

Back - Index - Submissions - - What is RSS? Date: May 27, 2099 Source: E! Online Submitted By: yvette_99_99@yahoo.com by Joal Ryan May 26, 1999, 2:05 p.m. PT The Backstreet Boys are so not over. The teeny-bopper group's sophomore collection, Millennium, moved a whopping 1.13 million copies in its debut week, breaking a sales record posted by über-star Garth Brooks. The much-hyped, 12-song CD, which has spawned the hit, "I Want It That Way," easily topped the pop-album charts for the week ended Sunday, bumping the equally hyped Ricky Martin down to No. 2. Millennium bowed last Tuesday--virtually blowing out of stores and selling some 500,000 copies on that first day alone. Its overall 1.13 million mark tops the 1.08 million standard for a new release established by Garth Brooks' Double Live last November. In other chart action, Ricky Martin's, uh, Ricky Martin stayed relatively hot, moving some 450,000 more albums. Britney Spears' ...Baby One More Time bounced its way back up the charts to No. 3 (from No. 6), TLC's FanMail wrote a ticket to No. 4 (from No. 3) and the Phantom Menace soundtrack flew up to the fifth spot (from No. 8). The Backstreet Boys, meanwhile, are touting Millennium as a bid to augment their popular appeal with critical appeal, too. "We're not really looking at sales," member Kevin Richardson told Reuters last week. "If you make good music and keep trying to outdo your last album as far as quality of music, the sales will come." Sales were not a problem for the Boys' self-titled 1997 debut, which tapped out piggy banks the world over to the tune of 10 million-plus copies sold. The group launches its summer tour June 2 in Belgium. And the Disney Channel announced today that it has the Boys booked for a concert special to air July 10 Comment on this item. Next Item: Backstreet Boys Break Sales Record Prev Item: Jive Press Release Concerning Millennium