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Nick Carter - 100% match to Backstreet Boys

Nicholas Gene Carter, 28 January 1980, Jamestown, New York, USA. The first member of the Backstreet Boys to undertake a solo career, blonde good-looking Carter took the chance to exhibit his love of hard rock on Now Or Never, released by Jive Records in October 2002. Working with leading songwriter and producer Max Martin, Carter steered away from the more extreme ends of th Read more

NSYNC - 95% match to Backstreet Boys

Westlife - 65% match to Backstreet Boys

This Irish boy band, originally known as Westside, emerged in the late 90s as the highly successful protégés of Ronan Keating of Boyzone. The three founding members, Kian Egan (Cian John Francis Egan, 29 April 1980, Sligo, County Sligo, Eire), Shane Filan (b. 5 July 1979, Sligo, County Sligo, Eire) and Mark Feehily (b. Marcus Michael Patrick Feehily, 28 May 198 Read more

Five - 59% match to Backstreet Boys

This UK pop quintet (originally spelled 5ive) enjoyed widespread success in the late 90s with their polished, hip-hop inspired sound. Ritchie Neville (Richard Neville Dobson, 23 August 1979, Solihull, Birmingham, West Midlands, England), Scott Robinson (b. 22 November 1979, Basildon, Essex, England), Richard ‘Abs’ Breen (b. Richard Abidin Breen, 29 June 1979, Enfie Read more

New Kids on the Block - 45% match to Backstreet Boys

This pop group from Boston, Massachusetts, USA, was formed in 1984 by Joey McIntyre (Joseph Mulrey McIntyre, 31 December 1972, Needham, Massachusetts, USA), Jordan Knight (b. 17 May 1970, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA), Jonathan Knight (b. 29 November 1968, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA), Danny Wood (b. Daniel William Wood Jnr., 14 May 1969, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) and D Read more

Aaron Carter - 44% match to Backstreet Boys

Aaron Charles Carter, 7 December 1987, Tampa, Florida, USA. The younger brother of Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, Aaron first burst onto the charts as a precocious 10-year-old in 1997. The next three years saw his shrill bubblegum pop winning an increasingly large slice of the lucrative pre-teen market. Carter attended music school in Tampa where, at the age of seven, h Read more

98 Degrees - 40% match to Backstreet Boys

Hanson - 40% match to Backstreet Boys

This precocious group of American teenagers shot to the top of the UK and US charts in the summer of 1997, with an energetic blend of Jackson Five -styled harmonies and crafted pop/soul melodies. The Hanson brothers, Isaac (Clarke Isaac Hanson, 17 November 1980, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA; guitar, piano, vocals), Taylor (b. Jordan Taylor Hanson, 14 March 1983, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA Read more

Boyzone - 36% match to Backstreet Boys

The natural inheritors to Take That’s ‘boy band’ throne in the mid-90s, this quintet of unaffected young Irish men was tailored for mainstream success by Polydor Records and their manager, promoter Louis Walsh. After auditions Keith Duffy (1 October 1974, Dublin, Eire) was recruited from his job as a mechanic, Shane Lynch (b. 3 July 1976, Dublin, Eire) from an Read more

Spice Girls - 34% match to Backstreet Boys

When Take That abdicated as monarchs of the UK teen band scene in February 1996, there were several pretenders lining up, but few could have predicted that a female quintet would have more success in the Smash Hits -reading market than Boyzone or Peter Andre. The Spice Girls - Posh Spice (Victoria Caroline Adams, 17 April 1974, Goff’s Oak, Hertfordshire, England), Mel Read more

A*Teens - 31% match to Backstreet Boys

This pop vocal group, which was assembled in Stockholm, Sweden in late 1998, comprises Marie Serneholt (11 July 1983, Stockholm, Sweden), Sara Lumholdt (b. 25 October 1984, Stockholm, Sweden), Dhani Lennevald (b. John Dhani Lennevald, 24 July 1984, Stockholm, Sweden), and Amit Paul (b. 29 October 1983, Boden, Sweden). The quartet was initially promoted as an Abba tribute ban Read more

Jessica Simpson - 31% match to Backstreet Boys

10 July 1980, Waco, Texas, USA. Initially one of America’s pre-millennial rash of teenybop singers resurrecting the country’s traditions of bubblegum pop, Simpson won her spurs with December 1999’s Top 5 single ‘I Wanna Love You Forever’. She began singing aged 12 in her local Baptist church, where her psychologist father served as youth minister. Af Read more

Savage Garden - 31% match to Backstreet Boys

Australian pop duo Savage Garden formed in Brisbane at the end of 1996, their name inspired by fantasy author Anne Rice’s term for the savage and isolated world of vampires. Within nine months of formation they had attained two domestic hit singles (‘I Want You’ and ‘To The Moon And Back’). This achievement came without the benefit of any live performan Read more

Take That - 27% match to Backstreet Boys

Formed in Manchester, England, this vocal group probably came closest to emulating the Beatles’ legacy of phenomenal mass popularity. Teen pop can be a fickle career, but one similarity they displayed in common with their Liverpool cousins was the rare ability to unite both young and middle-aged music fans. The group was astutely managed by Nigel Martin-Smith and led by le Read more

Mandy Moore - 24% match to Backstreet Boys

Amanda Leigh Moore, 10 April 1984, Nashua, New Hampshire, but raised in Orlando, Florida, USA. One of the big success stories of the US pop charts in 1999, Mandy Moore rose to prominence after touring dates with *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys. Her debut single, ‘Candy’, sold half a million copies, many of the sales attributable to a promotional website that registe Read more