How Boy Bands Would Pull Us Out of the Economic Recession | Mollie Brothers
Boybands are among the most popular musicians in music history, despite the fact that no one seems to admit to liking them. So how did these bands get so popular so quickly? Where did it all start?
Since boy bands have changed throughout the years and with musical trends, defining them is difficult. The boy band formula is not well established; however they are typically an all-male singing group in their late teens or early twenties who are targeted at the young female market.
The Jackson 5 and the Temptations set the way for successive generations of boy bands in the middle of the 1960s, yet the boy band's beginnings are unclear due to their vague definition. The R&B group New Edition controlled the singles charts in the United States and the United Kingdom by the 1980s and set the standard for contemporary boy bands in the 1990s and 2000s.
Boy bands quickly followed New Edition's instant success; during the 1990s and early 2000s, boy bands like New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys, and *NSYNC dominated the world and the music charts.
By fusing rock and electronic dance music, the Jonas Brothers, One Direction, and BTS broke out from the stereotype of the traditional boy band by the middle of the 2000s.
Boy bands gained popularity online in addition to their music, which led to enthusiastic references to them in movies, TV shows, comedies, fashion, and other forms of pop-culture.
The 2019 love drama "After" is also (and embarrassingly) based on a Harry Styles fanfiction of the same name, which eventually became a best-seller and made over $57 million at the global box office.
If a film loosely based on a fanfiction about Harry Styles can generate millions, the boy band's finances seem to be full of money with every business decision they make. The highest-grossing tour of 2014 was One Direction's "Where We Are Tour," which brought in $282.2 million.
BTS produced relatively the same amount of money as Samsung in gross domestic product pulling in a whopping $4.65 billion for South Korea. Each boy band follows the same trend... millions and millions of dollars in GDP. The Beatles grossed $2.15 billion, One Direction $345 million, *NSYNC $315 million, Backstreet boys $210 million, and on and on.
BTS has been the most recent boyband to go on tour in 2019. While there is no clear sign as to who the next boy band will be, there is no denying their influence and money-making capabilities.
Written By: Mollie Brothers
