7.07.2009

Backstreet Boys will not perform in Bucharest

The American band Backstreet Boys, initially scheduled to perform at the Polyvalent Hall on November 28, has canceled the show in Bucharest, the website of the band announced, following last week’s news that Bucharest would be on the list of the cities where the band plans to promote its latest recording.

According to the latest entry posted on the official blog of the band, Backstreet Boys has scheduled a show in Bamberg, Germany, on November 28.
This autumn, the band will kick of the “This Is Us” World Tour, promoting the homonymous album, due to be launched this year. The band will perform in cities such as Lisbon, Madrid, Manchester, Glasgow, London, Munich, Berlin, Dublin, Zagreb, Warsaw, Helsinki, etc.

The band Backstreet Boys was nominated to the Grammy Awards and sold over 100 million copies of their albums throughout their career, and was one of the most popular boy bands of all times.

The band was set up in 1993 and has sold over 75 million albums all over the world. Their first two albums, ‘Backstreet Boys’ and ‘Millennium’, were sold in over ten million copies in the United States alone.

Backstreet Boys rocketed to fame in the formula Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, AJ McLean and Kevin Richardson. In 2006, Richardson decided to leave his colleagues.

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The band’s most famous songs include “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart),” “As Long As You Love Me,” “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” and “All I Have To Give”.