News and Stuff In this column I'll include any breaking news on Nick and the rest of the Backstreetboys, including upcoming albums, planned show appearances, album features, and so on.
Here are some TV appearances that they will appear on and some news briefs. 2/20/01 5:30pm - Men Strike Back - VH1
2/21/01 8:00pm - The Grammy Awards on CBS. The BSB are up for 1 award.
2/21/01 8:00pm - Before they were rock stars.
2/22/01 10:00pm - VH1: All Access
3/16/01 11:35pm - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
3/31/01 7:00pm - Carter Family Special - Disney Channel
Leslie will appear in the 'Carter Family Special' on the Disney Special on March 31st. Little bro Aaron and maybe big bro Nick will be featured on the show too! Leslie'll be singing 'I Need To Hear It' as well as 'Like Wow', and the 'Exclusive Street Team' video will be shown. Aaron will be performing his singles off his debut release as well as new material from 'Aaron's Party'.
2000's Biggest Money Makers
Index Ranks 'NSYNC As 2000's Biggest Music Stars
In 2000, you better believe 'NSYNC "Just Got Paid" - and we're not talking about the Johnny Kemp cover on their smash album No Strings Attached.
The Orlando, Florida, group made $267 million in U. S. album sales and tour revenues alone last year, according to the VH1/Money Rock Star Index. The channel and financial magazine teamed to rank musical artists based on CD sales, tour revenues, "money power" (including merchandising, endorsements and licensing) and "star power" (considering such factors as fan loyalty and crossover appeal).
The 10-times platinum No Strings Attached holds the record for selling the most copies in a single week - 2. 4 million flew off shelves in the album's first week of release in March.
Dr. Dre and Eminem, whose revenues were combined because they toured together, bow in at #2, with $249,900,000 in album sales and tour revenues.
The rappers are followed by Britney Spears, husband-and-wife country singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw (also combined due to their joint tour) and the Backstreet Boys.
The rest of the top 10 is Santana, Creed, the Dixie Chicks, Tina Turner and Christina Aguilera.
The index also includes Tina Turner (ranked #9) and Kiss (#13), who made a fortune in 2000 by "retiring" with farewell tours. Moby, #23, made an estimated $16 million by licensing songs from his album Play over 800 times in movie soundtracks, commercials and TV shows.
The figures are based on research by Money, VH1, sales data service SoundScan and concert industry magazine Pollstar.
The chart below reflects only the rankings, CD sales and tour revenue information provided by the VH1/Money Rock Star Index and does not include the mitigating factors of "money power" and "star power. "
RANK, ARTIST, CD SALES, TOUR REVENUE
1 'NSYNC $190,600,000 $76,400,000
2 Dr. Dre $73,000,000 $22,200,000 Eminem $154,600,000
3 Britney Spears $162,700,000 $40,500,000
4 Tim McGraw $55,100,000 $48,200,000 Faith Hill $67,300,000
5 Backstreet Boys $122,800,000 $25,800,000
6 Santana $119,200,000 $26,100,000
7 Creed $131,200,000 $26,200,000
8 Dixie Chicks $79,400,000 $47,300,000
9 Tina Turner $14,000,000 $80,200,000
10 Christina Aguilera $81,200,000 $13,500,000
11 Dave Matthews Band $24,600,000 $69,800,000
12 Sting $42,800,000 $28,900,000
13 Kiss $8,400,000 $62,700,000
14 Red Hot Chili Peppers $45,100,000 $31,100,000
15 Ricky Martin $33,200,000 $37,200,000
16 Destiny's Child $66,500,000 $1,100,000
17 Sisqó $59,400,000 $900,000
18 Madonna $42,300,000 $0
19 Bruce Springsteen $11,200,000 $45,900,000
20 Jimmy Buffett $19,300,000 $24,100,000 |
