Millennium (Backstreet Boys album)

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Millennium
Studio album by The Backstreet Boys
Released	May 18, 1999
Recorded	October 1998-March 1999
Genre	Pop, dance
Length	55:11
Label	Jive
Producer(s)	Various
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Entertainment Weekly (B-) link
The Backstreet Boys chronology
Backstreet's Back (1997)	Millennium (1999)	Black & Blue (2000)

Millennium is an album by American pop music group Backstreet Boys. It broke numerous records, and is their biggest success to date. It was a highly anticipated follow-up to both their United States debut album, and their international second CD. It was the their first record be released in both the U.S. and internationally in the same form, at the same time. It was nominated for five Grammy Awards and spawned four Top 40 singles, including world-wide smash "I Want It That Way".

Contents 1 Album success 2 Track listing 2.1 Other editions 3 Miscellaneous 4 Charts 5 References

[edit] Album success

Preceded by the worldwide hit single "I Want It That Way", anticipation for Millennium was high. On May 18, 1999, the day of the album's release, the Backstreet Boys made a heavily-publicized appearance on MTV's Total Request Live. Over 5,000 fans showed to catch a glimpse of the group, prompting police to shut down Times Square, where TRL is taped.

Millennium entered the Billboard 200 at #1, where it remained for 10 non-consecutive weeks. It sold 1,134,000 copies in its first week of release, shattering the previous Nielsen SoundScan record held by Garth Brooks for single-week record sales.Millennium sold nearly 500,000 copies in the U.S. on its first day alone, setting a record for first-day sales.^[1] (this record was subsequently overtaken in 2000 by Britney Spears) ^[2]

Millennium became the best-selling album of 1999, selling a record 9,445,732 albums^[3]. Millennium remained on the Billboard chart for 93 weeks, eventually selling over 12 million copies in the United States and being certified 13 times platinum ^[4]. The album currently stands as the fourth best selling album ^[5] of the SoundScan era.

Millennium set a record for most albums sold in its debut week. It also set the record for most albums sold internationally in one week with 5 million. Millennium dominated the worldwide charts, landing the #1 spot in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and Thailand. The album has surpassed 30 million worldwide sales ^[6][7][8] .

Millennium is certified thirteen times platinum in the U.S. and spent 93 weeks on Billboard's "Top 200 albums" chart. In addition to receiving gold and platinum awards in 45 countries, Millennium was honored with five 1999 Grammy Award nominations including "Album of the Year."

[edit] Track listing

1. "Larger Than Life" (Littrell, Lundin, Martin, Orpin) – 3:52
2. "I Want It That Way" (Carlsson, Martin, Orpin) – 3:33
3. "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" (Crichlow, Martin) – 3:54
4. "It's Gotta Be You" (Lange, Martin, Orpin, Folgers) – 2:56
5. "I Need You Tonight" (Fromm) – 4:23
6. "Don't Want You Back" (Martin) – 3:25
7. "Don't Wanna Lose You Now" (Martin, Orpin) – 3:54
8. "The One" (Littrell, Martin) – 3:46
9. "Back To Your Heart" (Baker, Blume, Richardson) – 4:21
10. "Spanish Eyes" (Fromm, Linzer) – 3:53
11. "No One Else Comes Close" (Baker, Perry, Thomas) – 3:42
12. "The Perfect Fan" (Littrell, Smith) – 4:13

[edit] Other editions

The Asian edition of Millennium contained the bonus track "I'll Be There For You" at the end of the album. The Australian edition added that song as well as "You Wrote The Book On Love", as did the Japanese edition which also included a special Japanese cover booklet. In Hong Kong, several limited editions were released in packages with other items. One included a Backstreet Boys mouse-pad, and another came in a plastic "CD Player" package with some collectors cards. Another Asian limited edition (with the Asian bonus track) was released containing a bonus CD that contained four remixes each of "Larger Than Life" and "Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely". Yet another edition, "The Multi-Platinum Edition" was released later (with the Asian bonus track) and contained a VCD of the band's music videos from the album.

[edit] Miscellaneous

• There is no title cut from this album as Robbie Williams had the exclusive music rights to use the word "Millennium" for his 1998 recording.
• '"Larger than Life" was played in Napoleon Dynamite and it does resemble the sound of many classic rock artists, such as AC/DC
• "I Want It That Way", "Larger Than Life" and "Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely" all reached the No. 1 spot in Canada.

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1999	The Billboard 200	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1999	"I Want It That Way"	The Billboard Hot 100	6
1999	"I Want It That Way"	Adult Contemporary	1
1999	"I Want It That Way"	UK Singles Chart	1
1999	"Larger Than Life"	The Billboard Hot 100	25
1999	"Larger Than Life"	UK Singles Chart	5
2000	"Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely"	The Billboard Hot 100	6
2000	"Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely"	UK Singles Chart	3
2000	"The One"	The Billboard Hot 100	30
2000	"The One"	UK Singles Chart	8

[edit] References

1. ^ Yahoo Music: The current record for one-week sales in the U.S
2. ^ 'Oops I Did It Again' passes 1.3m in first week
3. ^ top twenty selling of 1999
4. ^ Millennium certified 13 x platinum on 07 February 2001
5. ^ SoundScan's top ten best-selling albums - January 2007
6. ^ Best-Selling Albums - Millennium 30m
7. ^ Live Daily news - "Millennium," which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, according to the group's publicist
8. ^ Backstreet Boys and AJ News - Millennium has sold more then 30 million copies worldwide

Preceded by Ricky Martin by Ricky Martin	Billboard 200 Number-one Album June 5, 1999 - July 9, 1999	Succeeded by Significant Other by Limp Bizkit
Preceded by Significant Other by Limp Bizkit	Billboard 200 Number-one Album July 31, 1999 - August 13, 1999	Succeeded by Significant Other by Limp Bizkit
Preceded by Significant Other by Limp Bizkit	Billboard 200 Number-one Album August 21, 1999 - September 10, 1999	Succeeded by Christina Aguilera by Christina Aguilera