Following the example of New Kids on the Block and 98 Degrees, Backstreet Boys will release a new studio album in 2013. “In A World Like This” will be released on July 30, and three days later, the Boys will kick off a North American tour in Chicago.

On Wednesday morning (May 15), the five members of BSB appeared on “Good Morning America” and premiered a new song, “Permanent Stain.” The upcoming album’s first single, “In a World Like This,” is set to be released on June 25, and is said to be a return to the bombastic hooks of their earlier work.

“We always want to top our previous albums,” Nick Carter says in a press statement. “All five of us were determined to create an album where every song could be a single.”

The album and tour announcement comes on the heels of the band’s 20th anniversary in April, in which they were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Recorded in London and Los Angeles with producers like Max Martin, Martin Terefe and Justin Trugman, “In a World Like This” marks the recording return of Kevin Richardson, who departed the group following 2005′s “Never Gone” and returned to BSB in 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

The Backstreet Boys, who have sold more than 130 million albums worldwide, the most for a boy band, will receive the 2,495th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame April 22nd in connection with their 20th anniversary.

The star will be in front of the Live Nation Building at 7072 Hollywood Blvd., next to the star of another popular boy band Boyz II Men, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which administers the Walk of Fame, announced today.

Max Martin, who has produced and written some of the Backstreet Boys’ works, plus a special fan of the group will speak at the ceremony, according to Ana Martinez, producer of the Walk of Fame ceremonies.

The ceremony will be streamed at walkoffame.com beginning at 11:30 a.m.

The ceremony will come two days after a fan celebration at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Hollywood.

The band — A.J. McLean, Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough, Kevin Richardson and Nick Carter — was formed in 1993 and released their self-titled first album in 1996, which received diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. [Source]