Backstreet Boys discography
This is a discography documenting albums and singles released by American boy band, the Backstreet Boys.
Albums
Studio albums
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| Backstreet Boys |
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| Backstreet's Back |
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| Millennium |
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| Black & Blue |
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| Never Gone |
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| Unbreakable |
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Compilation albums
| Album | Information | U.S. | U.K. |
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| The Hits: Chapter One |
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Singles
- Debut Date: The first date in which the item appeared on the chart (US dates unless specified).
- Peak: Top position the item achieved. Number in brackets indicate how many weeks the item spent at the #1 position.
- Certification: US RIAA album certification for units shipped. (eg. 2x Platinum mean 2 million units shipped)
- Certification 2: (as of 2004) Due to the lack of impressive sales of singles, the RIAA has changed its format. Gold meaning 200,000 shipped and platinum 400,000 shipped with the respective multiple.
| U.S. | U.S. AC | UK | GER | |||||||
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| Year | Single | Album | Peak | Weeks | Peak | Peak | Weeks | Peak | Sales (US Cert.) | |
| 1995-6 | "We've Got It Goin' On" | Backstreet Boys | 69 | 20 | 54/3 | 8 | 4 | |||
| 1996 | "Get Down (You're the One For Me)" | Backstreet Boys | — | — | 14 | 8 | 5 | |||
| 1997 | "Anywhere For You" | Backstreet Boys | — | — | 4 | 8 | 3 | |||
| 1997 | "Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart)" | Backstreet Boys/Backstreet's Back | 2 | 43 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1,000,000+ (Platinum) | |
| 1997 | "As Long As You Love Me" | Backstreet's Back | — | — | 3 | 56 | 3 | |||
| 1997-8 | "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" | Backstreet Boys/Backstreet's Back | 4 | 22 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 1,000,000+ (Platinum) | ||
| (1995) 1997-8 | "I'll Never Break Your Heart" | Backstreet Boys/Backstreet's Back | 35 | 2 | 1 | 42/8 | 11 | 5 | ||
| 1998-9 | "All I Have to Give" | Backstreet Boys/Backstreet's Back | 5 | 26 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 1,000,000+ (Platinum) | ||
| 1999 | "I Want It That Way" | Millennium | 6 | 45 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 1 | ||
| 1999 | "Larger Than Life" | Millennium | 25 | 28 | 5 | 14 | 5 | |||
| 2000 | "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" | Millennium | 6 | 34 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 3 | ||
| 2000 | "The One" | Millennium | 30 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 15 | ||
| 2000 | "Shape of My Heart" | Black & Blue | 9 | 20 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 2 | ||
| 2001 | "The Call" | Black & Blue | 52 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 17 | |||
| 2001 | "More Than That" | Black & Blue | 27 | 20 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 25 | ||
| 2001-2 | "Drowning" (sample: Windows Media) |
The Hits: Chapter One | 28 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 11 | ||
| 2005 | "Incomplete" (sample: Windows Media) |
Never Gone | 13 | 27 | 4 | 8 | 15+ | 3 | 400,000+ (Gold) | |
| 2005 | "Just Want You To Know" | Never Gone | 70 | 13 | 35 | 8 | 2 | 20 | — | |
| 2005 | "Crawling Back to You" | Never Gone | — | 21 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2005 | "I Still" | Never Gone | — | — | — | — | 45 | — | ||
| 2007 | "Inconsolable" | Unbreakable | 86 | 2 | 21 | 24 | 2 | 17 | TBR | |
| 2008 | "Helpless When She Smiles" | Unbreakable | TBR | TBR | TBR | TBR | TBR | TBR | TBR | |
| 2008 | "Everything But Mine" | Unbreakable | TBR | TBR | TBR | TBR | TBR | TBR | TBR | |
- NC: Not Charted on the Billboard Hot 100, but on the Bubbling Under 100.
The Backstreet Boys currently have had fifteen singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Twelve singles have reached the top 40, six of those singles have managed to reach the top ten. "We've Got It Goin' On" was on the Hot 100 for twenty weeks until it was retired due to its weak performance (Any single that stays under position 50 (51-100) for twenty weeks must be removed.)
- Interesting chart facts
- The Backstreet Boys spent 84 consecutive weeks on the Hot 100 between January 30, 1999 and September 2, 2000 with five various songs.
- The Backstreet Boys holds the record for 'most radio station adds' in first week with both of their singles "I Want It That Way" and "Shape Of My Heart". In 1999 "I Want It That Way" held this record when it received 165 radio adds in its first week of release but in 2000 it was beaten by "Shape Of My Heart" with 170 radio adds. "Shape Of My Heart" debuted at #9 on the Billboard Charts.
- "As Long As You Love Me" is one of the several songs that reached the top five on the airplay charts (it reached #4) but never charted the Billboard Hot 100.
- "I Want I That Way" set a record for the most weeks on the UK chart since the chart was conceived in the 90's and reached the #1 spot in over 25 nations.
- "All I Have to Give" reached its peak position in its second week. It debuted at 57 and shot to 5 in week two, staying in the top ten for nine weeks.
- "Shape Of My Heart", the first single from Black & Blue, broke the record for most weeks at #1 on the Canadian Adult Contemporary (AC) chart with an amazing stay of fourteen (14) weeks. On the Canadian (CHR) chart it holds the record for highest-ever debut at #3, shattering the previous record of #10 set by U2. It went to #1 where it stayed for six weeks breaking the record for longest stay at #1. It also holds the record for most first-day spins on CHR Radio, as measured by (BDS), who compile Canadian Radio charts based on detected spins, or plays, on Radio stations across Canada. In 2000, Backstreet Boys held the #1 position on the CHR and AC charts a combined nineteen weeks.
- "Shape Of My Heart" held the #1 spot in over 13 nations but never reached the Top 5 in the .U.S..
- "Crawling Back to You" peaked at:
- #50 in U.S. Billboard Pop 100, (2005)
- #38 in U.S. Billboard Pop 100 Airplay, (2005)
- #31 in U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream, (2005)
- #30 in U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary, (2006)
- "Incomplete" debuted at #1 on the Australian ARIAnet charts with sales exceeding the 35,000 gold limit, becoming the Backstreet Boys' first Australian #1 single.
- "I Still" debuted at #1 on the Japan International Singles Chart with 2,182 copies sold, making the first ever international single to enter at #1 on the chart in Japanese history.
- Despite being as popular as they are, the Backstreet Boys never had a number 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
Videos
- 1998 The Video
- 1998 Live in Concert
- 1998 All Access Video (#1 U.S. debut) (6x Platinum) (1.5 million copies)
- 1998 A Night Out With the Backstreet Boys (#1 U.S. debut) (3x Platinum) (.75 million copies)
- 1999 Homecoming – Live in Orlando (#1 U.S. debut) (3x Platinum) (.75 million copies)
- 2001 Around the World (#1 U.S. debut) (Platinum) (.25 million copies)
- 2001 The Hits (#1 U.S. debut) (Platinum) (.25 million copies)
- 2005 Never Gone:The Videos
- Certification:
- IRMA gold certification for a minimum of 125,000 units or a dollar volume of $9 million at retail for theatrically released programs, or of at least 25,000 units and $1 million at suggested retail for nontheatrical titles.
- IRMA platinum certification for a minimum sale of 250,000 units or a dollar volume of $18 million at retail for theatrically released programs, or of at least, 50,000 units and $2 million at suggested retail for nontheatrical titles.
References
Note1: 'Backstreet Boys Back' and 'BackStreet Boys' (2nd self-titled album) are often reported as both selling 28 million sales. This figure is for the combined total of these albums as they were in effect the same album.