New Kids on the Block's 'Hangin' Tough' topped the Billboard charts in 1989. Here's the chart rewind.
In every era of pop music, boy bands have elicited irrepressible shrieks from adoring fans. In the ’60s, it was the Beatles. In the ’70s, the Jackson 5. More recently, the likes of Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, who then passed the boy band baton to One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer.05/24/2024in 1985 with “Cool It Now,” he followed with New Kids on the Block – brothers Jonathan and Jordan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood.
On Sept. 9, 1989, New Kids’ rise culminated in the set and its title track taking over atop the Billboard 200 and Hot 100, respectively. The set was a slow-burner that took 55 weeks to reach the Billboard 200 summit, completing one of the longest climbs to No. 1 in the chart’s history.had charted at last on the Billboard 200, reaching No. 25, and generated its own top 10, the group’s No. 8 cover of the Delfonics’ “Didn’t I .
The Kids’ blend of street and sweet helped make them a chart, touring and merchandise powerhouse, one that continued with 1990’s. Like its predecessor, the album and its title song became respective Billboard 200 and Hot 100 No. 1s. Follow-up single “Tonight,” which playfully name-checks several of the act’s earlier hits, rose to No. 7. in 1994 before taking a hiatus. With enough time passed for nostalgia to help restore its image , the band blew back in 2008 with the No.
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