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Article: New Kids on the Block
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New Kids on the Block
Pop group
For the Record
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Selected discography
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The 1989 pop music charts were absolutely dominated by a young group from Boston, Massachusetts, the New Kids on the Block. The New Kids
—
who are reported to be earning in excess of a million and a half dollars
per week
—
topped the 1989
Billboard
list for sales of both albums and singles and became the first group since 1984 to have two songs in the top ten simultaneously. Teenage fans thrill to the New Kids
’
sound, a well-produced pastiche of funky, obliquely sexual street music, and young girls in particular adore the clean-looking, attractive singers.
Rolling Stone
reporter Dave ...