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Backstreet announce North American Tour

The Backstreet Boys announced plans Wednesday for a 39-city North American tour, set to launch on September 15th in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Ticket sales for the entire tour will begin on August 14th, according to a statement issued by the group's publicists on Wednesday evening.

The initial routing of the tour leaves some room for added dates in several key radio markets, though some areas of the country such as Texas are noteworthy by their complete absence from the tour schedule. The state was likewise left out of the itinerary for the upcoming Tori Amos / Alanis Morissette tour, though Amos will kick off her solo fall tour with a number of shows there.

Ticket prices for the tour will range from $28.50 to a high of $38.50 in most markets.

The group has enjoyed a tremendous retail response to their latest effort, Millennium, which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide in just over two months of release. In the U.S., sales totals set new industry records during each of the first three weeks of the album's release.

The tour will be tightly tied to a recently launched back-to-school campaign by Sears, the primary sponsor of the tour.

Backstreet's Brian is OK!

Despite rampant rumors to the contrary, spokespeople for the Backstreet Boys say that B-Boy Brian Littrell is in fine health and plans to remain with the band.

Recently, fans have been abuzz with talk that the heart condition Littrell underwent surgery for last year has caused problems for the singer during the group's current European tour, and that he would be taking time away from the band. The rumors may have stemmed from Orlando, Florida's WPYO radio, which reported that Littrell was facing more surgery when the Boys' European tour wraps up in August. The station noted that the report was unconfirmed and urged listeners to get to the bottom of the story and call WPYO with details.

Speaking through the group's publicist, management for the Backstreet Boys denied that Littrell was experiencing health problems and said that he will not be taking time off from the band. Littrell and the rest of the Boys are expected to wrap up their European tour on August 7 in Sweden before kicking off a U.S. tour in September.

Backstreet Still Hold #1 Spot

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - The Backstreet Boys' ``Millennium'' was the best-selling album in the nation for the fourth consecutive week, with more than 371,000 copies of the disc going home with fans, according to sales data released Wednesday. Sales of the sophomore disc by the Jive Records ensemble slipped by 66,000 copies from the previous chart but still bested by 62,000 copies the fifth-week sales total by the No. 2 disc, Ricky Martin's self-titled English-language debut for C2/Columbia Records. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' latest, ``Californication,'' opened at No. 3 with nearly 190,000 copies sold.

[Millennium has sold close to 2.5 million copies (in the USA) in it's first month on the US charts]

Backstreet Dismiss Rumours

Frankfurt/Main (dpa)- The Backstreet Boys have energetically dismissed rumors about breaking up. Before the performance that started their Germany Tour on Friday in Frankfurt, Nick Carter said, "Such rumors existed a year ago. And here we still are- together."

The five teen- idols Howard Dorough, A.J. McLean, Kevin Richardson, Bryan Littrell (the author's mistake) and Nick Carter - perform their new record "Millennium" on Tour.

Hysterical fans and screaming teens, wherever they publicly appear - that is something that Kevin still cannot understand. All the things that may be, it is no problem for the group, declares Nick. "It is much more of a present." says Kevin. He has not never really gotten used to the hustle and bustle, but he has learned to go along with it.

They are not really happy with the label of "boy group." "We are singers," stresses Kevin. With their new record "Millennium" they considerably further developed themselves. "We would like to win over some older fans along with the younger ones." Fear that they will sometime be too old for the teen fans the smart black haired one does not have. Many fans from when we just started over six years ago are still loyal," he says. The many awards that the Backstreet Boys have earned, do not mean much to them, reveals Kevin. They are however very proud of their Grammy nomination. "And the greatest award that we have ever received is the love of our fans."