Backstreet Boys on Tour
The pitch-perfect harmonies. The matching outfits and dance moves. The dreamy personas. When they set foot in an arena, the Backstreet Boys are absolutely in their element, belting out a massive catalog of original hits to an outsized audience that screams back every word. Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, AJ McLean and Kevin Richardson have been at it for decades, but even after setting the blueprint for acts like One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer, their 1993-formed group remains the best-selling boy band of all time. And unlike so many others (including their former direct competition, *NSYNC), Backstreet Boys never quit. They kept making records — adapting their increasingly adult sound to an ever-shifting pop landscape — and kept upping the performance stakes too, taking their NKOTBSB supergroup (with New Kids on the Block) on the road in 2011, and holding down a two-year residency at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas starting in 2017. Their DNA World Tour celebrates their rich history of swooning ballads and get-up-and-dance jams (and yet another No. 1 album in 2019's DNA).
Backstreet Boys in Concert
Despite becoming more or less a five-headed pop machine, the Backstreet Boys' origins were pretty organic. Cousins Kevin Richardson and Brian Littrell came up singing in church choirs and at festivals in Lexington, Kentucky, while the other three bonded over their shared love for Prince and old-school R&B after meeting at various acting auditions around Orlando. They came together under the guidance of teen-pop guru Lou Pearlman and emerged in the mid-1990s as radio-smashing global sensations — the quintessential boy band yearning over heartfelt hits like "I Want It That Way" and powering parties with upbeat bops like "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)." Their first two U.S. albums — 1997's Backstreet Boys and 1999's Millennium — also marked the arrival of Swedish superproducer Max Martin, who helped forge a shiny new sound that combined bubblegum pop, classic R&B, hip-hop swing and dance production. The Backstreet Boys' astounding longevity owes as much to maintaining this baseline formula as it does to their ability to pull modern sounds and grown-man themes into the gleaming pop universe they created way back when.
Backstreet Boys North American DNA Tour 2022 Schedule
6/4/22 - Chula Vista, CA
6/7/22 - Los Angeles, CA
6/9/22 - Phoenix, AZ
6/11/22 - Albuquerque, NM
6/14/22 - The Woodlands, TX
6/15/22 - Irving, TX
6/17/22 - Rogers, AR
6/20/22 - Jacksonville, FL
6/21/22 - Tampa, FL
6/22/22 - West Palm Beach, FL
6/24/22 - Charlotte, NC
6/25/22 - Raleigh, NC
6/28/22 - Alpharetta, GA
7/1/22 - Toronto, ON
7/2/22 - Toronto, ON
7/3/22 - Darien Center, NY
7/5/22 - Burgettstown, PA
7/6/22 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH
7/10/22 - Indianapolis, IN
7/12/22 - Bristow, VA
7/13/22 - Virginia Beach, VA
7/14/22 - Camden, NJ
7/16/22 - Wantagh, NY
7/17/22 - Hartford, CT
7/19/22 - Holmdel, NJ
7/20/22 - Mansfield, MA
7/23/22 - Saratoga Springs, NY
7/28/22 - Clarkston, MI
7/29/22 - Chicago, IL
7/30/22 - St. Louis, MO
8/2/22 - Denver, CO
8/4/22 - Salt Lake City, UT
8/6/22 - Wheatland, CA
8/7/22 - Mountain View, CA
8/9/22 - Concord, CA
8/12/22 - Auburn, WA
8/19/22 - Nampa, ID
8/21/22 - Spokane, WA
8/24/22 - Vancouver, BC
9/2/22 - Quebec City, QC
9/3/22 - Montreal, QC
9/6/22 - Lexington, KY
9/11/22 - Sioux Falls, SD
9/13/22 - Wichita, KS
9/14/22 - Oklahoma City, OK
