Those Guilty Pleasures That Made You Get Down - The Most Popular Boy Bands of All Time

Everyone who has lived through the 90s has tasted boy band fever in some form or another. Explosive record sales and innumerable last song syndromes are just small tidbits of proof of how huge this phenomenon has grown in the past. A lot of their members have risen from obscurity to become household names in several countries. The appeal of catchy love tunes, inventive dance moves and boy-next-door looks apparently transcends nationality and race.

Here are some of the more popular boy bands to come out of the last decades. Together they have packed stadiums, engaged in a few scandals here and there, made a lot of adolescent girls scream and shout, and eventually endeared themselves to millions of fans:

- Boyzone: When the British boy band Take That attained worldwide success, Ireland answered back with their very own set of handsome lads singing romantic ballads. After having four UK number one albums, lead singers Ronan Keating and Stephen Gately emerged with solo careers, with Keating releasing 5 albums by himself.

- Take That: If Boyzone was the Irish answer to Take That, this group in turn was the British answer to the New Kids On The Block. Described as the most successful UK group since the Beatles, Take That has sold over 27 million copies of their record worldwide. It also produced the pop superstar Robbie Williams.

- The Backstreet Boys: Boy band fever in the mid-90s experienced a renaissance and it was mostly started by these lads. They became the biggest thing in music since the Spice Girls and are one of the biggest selling pop groups of all time. And though fan interest in the group has waned in recent years, they still remain a force in the music industry.

- Menudo: Better known as the group that produced Ricky Martin, this group was much more than that in the late 1970s and early 80s when producer Edgardo Diaz of Puerto Rico decided to create an all male teen sing and dance group. They started an international boy band craze, whose format would be followed by all those who succeeded them.

These are just a few of the very many boy bands who have made a dent in the charts and in our musical consciousness. If you'd like to know more about these boy bands and discover the most influential boy band of all time, visit: http://crunkish.com/top-ten-boy-bands-of-all-time/

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