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The discography of American pop vocal group Backstreet Boys consists of eight studio albums, twenty-five singles, two compilation albums and twenty-three music videos. Formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993, the group consists of Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough, A.J. McLean and Kevin Richardson. Richardson left the group in 2006 to pursue other interests, but rejoined in 2012.

The Backstreet Boys released their debut single "We've Got It Goin' On" in 1995, which entered the top-ten in many European countries. Their debut album, Backstreet Boys, was released internationally in 1996, and was certified three times platinum in Europe, and diamond in Canada. In 1999, the Backstreet Boys released their third and most successful album to date, Millennium, which entered the Billboard 200 at number one, with first week sales of 1,133,000 copies, and became the best-selling album of the year. It sold over 40 million copies internationally. The Backstreet Boys have received a total of eight Grammy nominations, including five nominations in 2000. According to the RIAA, they are the forty-first best selling artist with shipments of over 37 million albums in the US. They are also ranked as the seventh best-selling group of the SoundScan era in the United States (nineteenth best-selling artist overall), with sales of 30,900,000 albums. As of 2010, the Backstreet Boys have sold over 130 million records worldwide.

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