During the late 1980s and 90s the boyband came back in fashion with New Kids On The Block. They had worldwide success and multimillion selling albums.
New Kids were created in 1986 by Maurice Starr who wanted to recreate the success he had had with his previous boyband New Edition. Their success really started when they released Hangin' Tough in 1988 which sold 8 million copies and their image had got tougher than it was for the first album. They released a Christmas album which went double platinum and they continued to release successful records until the early 90s when they went out of fashion. They tried a comeback in 1994 when they shortened their name to New Kids and NKOTB but it failed as music tastes and teenagers had moved on to new bands.
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