With album sales bottoming out and the music industry at a crossroads, some labels are starting to turn to a familiar model to try to get the numbers back up. Inspired by the return of New Kids on the Block and the success of High School Musical, labels will be tapping back into the boy band market, an area that has been dead silent since the breakup of ‘NSYNC. Click below for more on the new generation of boy bands, including how this new crop of dudes will operate differently from the collectives of the Backstreet era.
• In Dark Times, Labels Look to Boy Bands
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