As concert tours remain on hold due to COVID-19, Billboard is looking back at notable tours from the archives in a new series of Boxscore Flashbacks.
Decades after collecting a combined 15 top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, both New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys have become consistently reliable presences on arena and amphitheater calendars.
Their continued success is certainly indebted to decades of hard work and hit singles, but also to the combined effect of nostalgia from their 2011-12 team-up, re-lighting the fire throughout the 2010s and beyond.New Kids on the Block earned $93.5 million and sold 2.3 million tickets between 1989 and 1992 according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, all while notching two No.