Anyone notice that as soon as the biggest boy band disappears from the top of the charts a new one emerges?

 

It is as if there is only space for one at a time:

 

 

Take That (until the breakup): all 8 number one singles: July 93 - March 96 (band disbanded!)

 

Boyzone: all 6 number one singles: Oct 96 - May 99 (highest charting single since number 3)

 

Westlife: all 14 number one singles: May 99 - Nov 2006 (highest charting single since number 3)

 

Take That comeback: all 3 number ones and counting: Nov 2006 - ???

Edited November 27, 200816 yr by Bond Bug

oooooooh freaky

That is a very odd coincidence! Even the months are correct in this theory. However, Blue I'm sure were around during Westlife time? :P

what about backstreet boys and n*sync?

East 17??

East 17??

Blue :o

Boyzone's last #1 was actually a couple of weeks after Westlife's first.

 

But still - it is quite an interesting fact!

Isn't McFly also a boyband? :naughty:

They are and really took over from 'Busted'

radiohead?? hahahah

Based on music, I never really think of McFly as a boy band, they are quite similar to many bands who are branded normal or rather not boy bands. Tbh, I just think of boy bands as a group of young men who dance about while singing and don't play instruments. Though you could also argue that they're young men in a band, but that doesn't work for the way people brand other bands at the moment and to be honest, Take That aren't 'young' any more.

Phixx :kink:

Phixx :kink:

 

They were awesome :wub: David Bowie's favourite boyband, I heard :)

 

Also you forgot A1 and 911, who both straddled the Boyzone/Westlife era :kink:

Edited November 27, 200816 yr by TomKay

some of 911's songs are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me...More Than A Woman, Private Number, Party People...Friday Night :kink: :wub:

Perhaps we need a definition what a boy band is... :naughty:

 

Regardless the definition, I hope nobody here will come to the idea to call Beatles a boy band :D .

No mention of 5ive? Awful.

Perhaps we need a definition what a boy band is... :naughty:

 

Regardless the definition, I hope nobody here will come to the idea to call Beatles a boy band :D .

 

And don't forget The Monkees!

 

Norma

No mention of 5ive? Awful.

 

Keep On Movin' is obviously a pop classic

 

the only other song of theirs I like is the one that nobody remembers: Until The Time Is Through :wub:

 

their post Keep On Movin' output is amongst the worst music ever released...We Will Rock You, Don't Wanna Let You Go, Closer To Me, Rock This Party :puke: Let's Dance was alright I suppose, I liked the cardboard cut out of one of them in the video :lol:

 

but these bands never had any real success outside of the uk and ireland..

 

boy bands like N'sync , backstreet boys have had world wide success

Hi!

 

Thanks for your replies.

 

Yes McFly is the only fly in the ointment!

 

Maybe I should have defined my band definition better. As Sasha said McFly played instruments too.

 

So my observation would apply to the biggest boy bands who do not actually play as a "band" with instruments! That would therefore not include Radiohead or Oasis.

 

Other boy bands mentioned (Blue, 911, A1 East 17) would not count as this is about the "biggest".boy bands and I think Blue had the most number ones, but even that was "only" three.