01. In a World Like This
02. Permanent Stain
03. Breathe
04. Madeleine
05. Show ‘Em (What You’re Made Of)
06. Make Believe
07. Try
08. Trust Me
09. Love Somebody
10. One Phone Call
11. Feels Like Home
12. Soldier
13. In Your Arms (Bonus track)
14. Take Care (Bonus track)

Backstreet Boys are:
A. J. McLean
Howie Dorough
Nick Carter
Kevin Richardson
Brian Littrell

Backstreet's back! Except, it's not. Because really there's no going back to 1997, when Everybody (Backstreet's Back) was playing at every school disco across the land and Nick and Kevin and Howie and the other two were urging us all to rock our bah-dey, ye-eahh. The boys are now mostly approaching 40 – this eighth album marks the band's 20th anniversary – but they've retained that curiously nasal delivery that must have been focus-group tested on the ears of preteen girls. The music is just as you'd expect: uplifting cheese. Another reminder that pulling off a Take That-style comeback is just really hard. --- Hermione Hoby, theguardian.com

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1. Straight Through My Heart 
2. Bigger 
3. Bye Bye Love 
4. All Of Your Life (You Need Love) 
5. If I Knew Then 
6. This Is Us 
7. PDA 
8. Masquerade 
9. She's A Dream 
10. Shattered 
11. Undone
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12. All In My Head
13. Callin' Your Name
14. Don't Try This At Home
15. Fallen Angel
16. Funny Face
17. Helpless
18. Hologram
19. International Luv
20. Straight through my heart
21. Trouble

Since their mid-2000s reunion, the Backstreet Boys have been acting like adults so it's not entirely a surprise that they've decided to shake things up on This Is Us, their third album of the comeback and second since becoming a quartet. Teaming up once again with Max Martin and working with a host of modern hitmakers as RedOne, the group takes a left turn back toward the rhythm-heavy, harmony-laden dance-pop that made their reputation a decade before. Never mind the name of the album -- the group is tellingly quite willing to fade into background, letting the producers do their work, just content to sing the hooks. It's a sharp move in two ways: BSB never had as much on-record charisma as *NSync, their best trait was how they could sell a hook without affect, and that returns here. Of course, it helps that they have a bunch of hooks here, too -- hooks that aren't quite as galvanizing as "I Want It That Way," but easily eclipsing those on the pedestrian Unbreakable, helping the band seem modern without seeming pandering. It's a move that the New Kids on the Block couldn't pull off on their tawdry, sex-obsessed comeback, and it's one that the Backstreets seemed incapable of doing just a few years ago, but on This Is Us, the group sounds great for their age, and they sound like they're at their peak -- which is no guarantee of a hit, but it sure makes for a better album than they've produced in quite a while. --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

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01. Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)
02. As Long As You Love Me						play
03. Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)
04. I’ll Never Break Your Heart
05. All I Have to Give
06. I Want It That Way							play
07. Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely
08. Shape of My Heart
09. More Than That
10. Drowning
11. Larger Than Life
12. Incomplete
13. Just Want You to Know
14. Inconsolable

Members:
Brian Littrell
Nick Carter
A. J. McLean
Howie Dorough

Playlist: The Very Best of Backstreet Boys is the second Greatest Hits compilation released by American boyband, the Backstreet Boys. The album contains a selection of remastered recordings, and is part of a series of similar Playlist albums issued by Legacy Recordings. The album was released on January 26, 2010. The album comes in a special Eco-packet, and to save paper, a PDF file is included on the disc, containing the song credits, photographs, and liner notes.

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01.All In My Head
02.Anywhere For You
03.As Long As You Love Me
04.Bigger
05.Close My Eyes
06.Crawling Back To You
07.Don't Wanna Lose You Now
08.Don't Want You Back
09.Fallen Angel
10.Happily Never After
11.Helpless When She Smiles
12.Ill Never Find Someone Like You
13.Incomplete
14.I Need You Tonight
15.I Want It That Way
16.Just Want You To Know
17.Lose It All
18.Love Is
19.More Than That
20.On Without You
21.Quit Playing Games With My Heart
22.Safest Place to Hide
23.Shape Of My Heart
24.Show Me The Meaning
25.Song For The Unloved
26.The Answer To Our Life
27.The Call
28.There's Us
29.This Is Us (Bonus)

The Backstreet Boys were, in many ways, a contradictory band. Comprised entirely of white middle-class Americans, the group sang a hybrid of new jack balladry, hip-hop, R&B, and dance club pop that originally found its greatest success in Canada and Europe, with their 1996 debut album charting in the Top Ten in nearly every country on the Continent. Ironically, success in their native land did not follow until nearly two years later, when teen pop enjoyed a commercial explosion in America. Along with such artists as *NSYNC and Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys rose to the forefront of popular music during the turn of the 21st century, with albums like Backstreet's Back, Millennium, and Black & Blue enjoying worldwide success.

The core of the Backstreet Boys was comprised of cousins Kevin Richardson and Brian Littrell, both of whom hailed from Lexington, KY. The two began singing in local church choirs and festivals while they were children, performing doo wop and R&B songs in the style of Boyz II Men. Two of the group's other members, Howie Dorough and A.J. McLean, were natives of Orlando, FL, who met each other -- as well as transplanted New Yorker Nick Carter -- through auditions for local commercials, theater, and television. At one audition, the three discovered that they shared an affection for classic soul and could harmonize well together. Inspired, they formed a vocal trio. Shortly thereafter, Richardson moved to Orlando, where he became a tour guide at Disney World and concentrated on music at night. Eventually, he met Dorough, Carter, and McLean through a co-worker, and the four decided to form a group, naming themselves after an Orlando flea market. Littrell was later invited to join, thus turning the group into a quintet.

With the help of Louis J. Pearlman (who would later rise to mogul status on the strength of his teen pop acts), the Backstreet Boys secured management from Donna and Johnny Wright, the latter of whom had managed New Kids on the Block during the 1980s. The Wrights put the group out on the road and enlisted several A&R reps to attend the performances, which eventually resulted in a contract with Jive Records in 1994. Jive set the Backstreet Boys up with producers Veit Renn and Tim Allen, who helped shape the group's eponymous album. Released throughout Europe in late 1995, the record enjoyed considerable success, spending several weeks in the Top Ten in most Continental countries where it charted. In the U.K., the Backstreet Boys were named Best Newcomers of 1995 at the Smash Hits Awards thanks to their international hit single "We've Got It Goin' On." After scoring another European hit with "I'll Never Break Your Heart," the group released its album in Canada. Despite the Backstreet Boys' popularity in Europe and Canada, "We've Got It Goin' On" stalled in the lower reaches of the U.S. charts in 1995.

Combining their international singles with new tracks (which also formed the centerpiece of that year's European-only album Backstreet's Back), the American version of Backstreet Boys finally jump-started the group's success at home. "Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart)" and "As Long as You Love Me" proved to be popular singles, with the former track climbing to platinum status. The album continued to spin off hits well into 1999, with "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)," "I'll Never Break Your Heart," and "All I Have to Give" all landing on the charts. Both the former and the latter were platinum Top Five hits, and the album eventually sold an astounding 14 million copies in America alone.

In the meantime, the group saw its share of turmoil as Littrell underwent surgery in early 1998 to correct a congenital heart defect. Additionally, the Boys became embroiled in lawsuits against Pearlman and the rest of their management over royalties. When the dust settled, Pearlman remained the group's manager -- though the rest of the team was fired -- and the Boys began work on their follow-up album. Millennium was released in the summer of 1999 and debuted at number one, with first-week sales topping one million copies. Buoyed by songs like "I Want It That Way," "Larger Than Life," "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely," and "The One," Millennium shattered a number of records, including the highest amount of shipments in one year and the most copies sold during an album's inaugural week. The group released its Christmas Album before the end of the year, by which time Millennium was well on its way to sales of 12 million copies in the U.S. On an international level, the album eventually sold more than 40 million units. Once again, the group struck immediately after its previous album stopped producing hits, issuing Black & Blue in fall 2000. More Top 40 singles followed, including "The Call" and "Shape of My Heart," and Black & Blue followed its predecessor by selling over one million copies during its first week. A popular tour supported the album, but after seven years of nonstop touring and recording, the band agreed it was time for a break. Brian Littrell became a father while Kevin Richardson tried his hand at Broadway and took a starring role in the musical Chicago. Nick Carter released his solo album Now or Never in 2002, Howie Dorough did charity work for the Dorough Lupus Foundation in honor of the sister he had lost to the disease, and A.J. McLean made headlines with his stint in rehab.

In 2004, the Backstreet Boys re-formed and began work on a new album. The result, Never Gone, was released in June 2005 to platinum sales, followed by Unbreakable in 2007. The latter was the first album not to feature all five original members, as Kevin Richardson had quietly exited the group in 2006. It was also the group's first album not to go platinum, a fact that seemingly cemented the end of the Backstreet Boys' heyday. Accordingly, the singers enlisted some serious star power for their next album, soliciting help from the likes of Ryan Tedder, Max Martin (who had penned "I Want It That Way" ten years prior), Dr. Luke, and T-Pain. When songs from their recording sessions were leaked online, the group took the setback in stride, using their fans' feedback to help steer the remainder of the recording process. This Is Us was ultimately finished in mid-2009 and scheduled for release later that year. --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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