Backstreet BoysBest Backstreet Boys Albums Ranked
6.3
Avg Score
11
Opinions
11
Albums
4
Reviewers
Summary from 11 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Backstreet Boys's catalog across 11 albums from 11 opinions, with an overall average of 6.3/10. The top-rated Backstreet Boys album is Millennium (1999) with a 7.3/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by DNA and Black & Blue. The discography on Wavelength spans 1999 to 2022. I Want It That Way ranks as the highest-rated Backstreet Boys song on Wavelength with a 9.5/10 average.
DNA
“On their first chart-topping album in nearly 20 years, the Boys pair their group-vocal magic with contemporary pop written and produced by top-tier technicians”
Black & Blue
“There comes a time in every boy band’s and teen queen’s career when the idols want freedom from their puppet-masters. The irony behind Backstreet Boys is that the more they strive to prove their adult autonomy, the closer Orlando’s original sons come to resembling anonymous soft-pop professionals. On its third American album, the quintet attempts […]”
Millennium
“Prefabricated, too pretty, suspiciously well choreographed — such objections to the Backstreet Boys wither in the face of singles like the undeniable "Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)" and the sweet soar of "I’ll Never Break Your Heart." The Boys follow up their tenfold-platinum debut with an album filled with examples of their forte: New Jack doo-wop and […]”
In a World Like This
“Pop mutates with the times and tech, artists go in and out of vogue, but for many pop stars, the song — and the narrative — remains the same. First albums teeming with ambition and vigor give way to followups that grapple with fame, success and perhaps excess — which in turn pave the way for the inevitable newfound-maturity phase. For Ed Sheeran, that moment arrives in the very first line on = (pr”
Unbreakable
“There are only four of them now, and two are in their thirties, but they are still Boys, and they are more thoroughly bland and cheesy than ever. Like the Boys’ 2005 comeback album (Never Gone — surely you haven’t forgotten), Unbreakable makes small nods to adult pop, peppering the processed music with tasteful piano […]”
Never Gone
“Under the teen-pop beats and R&B-trained harmonies, Bon Jovi-style bombast has often lurked beneath the Backstreet Boys’ surface. Now that boy-band dance grooves have vanished from radio airwaves, the urge to rock out in a superslick power ballad kinda way dominates Never Gone, the first album in five years from Kevin Richardson, Brian Littrell, Howie […]”
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