Concert Preview: 2/28-29/00, Houston, TX

Back - Index - Submissions - - What is RSS? Date: Feb 29, 2000 Source: houston.citysearch.com Submitted By: Y The Backstreet Boys, for those who forget, don't care who you are, where you're from or what you do — as long as you love them. And apparently you do. Lots. The Orlando, Fla.-based quintet set a new record by selling more than 1.1 million copies of its second album, "Millennium,'' during its first week of release last spring, surpassing the mark set by Garth Brooks' live album and quieting any skeptics who thought (hoped?) the Boys would quietly pass into teenybopper past. Hardly. "Millennium" is now above seven million copies sold, and a ticket to one of the shows on their "Into the Millennium'' tour, with its center-arena stage and abundant pyrotechnics, is harder to come by than a covering for Britney Spears' midriff. And, by the way, Kevin Richardson — the oldest Boy — seems to be getting the loudest screams in concert. 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