Boy Band
A boy band is a pop group of young male singers, usually put together by a manager or label, who sing and dance rather than play instruments.
Boy band is a group format, not a single sound. The music is mostly pop and R&B with close harmonies, love songs and dance routines, and each member tends to have a distinct image. The modern model took shape in the 1980s and 1990s in the United States and Britain, building on earlier vocal groups, and the format is also central to the Korean and Japanese pop industries.
Artists it is known for: New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, One Direction, BTS.
- Family
- Pop
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A use, not a style
- From
- United States and United Kingdom, 1980s
- Also called
- boyband, boy group
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 8%
About 6,700 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have boy band among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Boy Band artists
One Direction
5 Seconds of Summer
Backstreet Boys
BROCKHAMPTON
Jonas Brothers
*NSYNC
Why Don't We
Westlife
Big Time Rush
Boyz II Men
The boy band artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.