Boy band

A boy band is a pop group with usually three to five exclusively male members in their teens and twen - age, almost without exception, dancing and singing in sync. This does not include drop -male music groups, the specific genres such as country, folk or jazz Activities or groups whose members also play instruments myself.

Designation

The term is used only since the 1990s, even if the concept of the most compiled by managers groups already in the 1950s and 1960s years had initial success. In Anglo-Saxon countries usually employs the term boy band- apply. As a precursor, however, was considered sporadically successful in the 1970s and 1980s Bay City Rollers or New Kids on the Block, mostly used the term teen band.

Only with the increasing emergence almost identically designed groups such as Take That, East 17, Worlds Apart and Caught in the Act (the Netherlands ) in the mid 1990s, the term boy band in the German language was familiar. With over 100 million albums sold, founded by Lou Pearlman group Backstreet Boys is the most successful of their genre.

Target groups

It is characterized by its commercial nature, as they are one of the main target groups of the music market, the female fans at the age of ten to sixteen, aligned.