Anyone following The Backstreet Boys for the past 15 years probably figured they had a one in a million chance of seeing the American pop foursome perform in St. John’s.

But even though they’re doing shows here July 29 and 30, not everyone was able to get tickets, leaving some die-hard fans inconsolable.

Some people lined up at Mile One Centre early the day the tickets went on sale so they wouldn’t be in a panic if phone lines and computers were overloaded.

The Backstreet Boys have attracted fans worldwide, and tickets disappeared faster than you’d drop a hot cinder.

According to concert promoters, the boys (Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell and A. J. McLean – original band member Kevin Richardson amicably parted ways with the band in 2006) have sold more than 75 million albums and have scored a dozen Top 40 hits, including Top 5 singles “Quit Playing Games (with My Heart),” “As Long As You Love Me,” “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” and “All I Have To Give.”
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Backstreet Boys Howie Dorough and A.J. McLean are continuing to work on their first solo projects even as the group has started work on its sixth studio album.

Dorough tells Billboard.com that “A.J.’s about done” with his album, while Dorough is “probably close to halfway there.” He’s been working with Jon Secada and George Noriega (Ricky Martin, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez) on an album Dorough says will explore the Latin roots of his mother’s family, which hails from Puerto Rico.

“I’ve always embraced the Latin rhythms, the Latin sounds, just the music itself,” says Dorough, who even flirted with joining Menudo when he was younger. “It’s just such a feel-good music, and I’ve always looked up to people like Jon Secada, Ricky Martin, Enrique (Iglesias), who have done a good crossover.”

Dorough describes his album as “kind of Latin-ish, English, Spanglish. It’s just a mixture of my American roots in pop music meets my Latin roots. It’s gonna be a good, kind of eclectic mixture.”
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The Love Story
Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough got more than he bargained for after hiring Leigh Boniello to be the band’s Webmaster in December 2000. The two quickly grew close and six years later, Dorough proposed at a New Year’s Even party in front of family and friends with a custom-designed engagement ring.

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Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough is mourning his father, Hoke, who died in his sleep, PEOPLE has confirmed. He was 69.

Dorough’s father, a longtime code enforcement supervisor in Orange County, Fla., had been diagnosed in March with lung and brain cancer. Howie, 34, and his bandmates previously canceled their South Africa concerts so the singer and his wife Leigh, 34, could be with his dad.

“Our family just wants to say thanks for all your prayers for my father, Hoke Dorough. His strong will helped him to fight cancer for the past three months. I was blessed to be able to spend the last month with him and create some memories that I will take with me forever,” Howie said in a statement on behalf of his family.
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The Backstreet Boys have fleshed out the North American portion of their ongoing world tour, adding a full slate of summer dates behind their latest set, “Unbreakable.”
The teen-pop idols, who recently completed a brief run of shows in South Africa, kick off the American outing July 29 in St. Johns, Newfoundland. The first leg of the tour has the group hitting 25 cities through early September, including the beginnings of a West Coast leg. Details are below.

Unbreakable,” the group’s most recent album, hit stores last fall. The Boys enlisted an all-star roster of producing talent including Billy Mann (Sting, Celine Dion) and ‘N Sync’s JC Chasez to complete the album, which is the follow-up to 2005′s “Never Gone.”

“We spent about 14 months on it,” group member Brian Littrell told LiveDaily during an interview late last year. “We’re happy and proud of the record. It’s really the Backstreet Boys of old and where we’re headed in the future. Read more »