1995

• Smash Hits Awards
  • Best New Tour Act

1996

• London's Red Nose Magazine
  • Best Newcomers

• Viva Comet Awards
  • Best Newcomers

• MTV Europe Music Awards
  • Best Newcomer
  • Best Group (Phone-in Opinion Poll
  • Select: Get Down (You're the One For Me)

1997

• Germany
  • Golden Camera

• Viva Comet Awards
  • Best Group
  • Band of the Year (U.S. Choice)

• Echo awards
  • Best International Group

• Popcorn Magazine
  • Best Group

• Bravo & Pop Magazine
  • Best Group

• Pop Rocky Reader's Choice
  • Best Group

• Smash Hits Awards
  • Best Band On Planet
  • Best International Band
  • Best Album: Backstreet's Back
  • Best Album Cover: Backstreet's Back
  • Best Video: Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
  • Best Male Haircut: Nick Carter

• MTV Europe Music Awards
  • Best Group
  • Best Group (Viewer's Choice)
  • Select: As Long As You Love Me

• Diamond Award (Canada)
  • Backstreet Boys certified as a Diamond album in Canada (1,000,000 units sold).

1998

• World Music Awards
  • World's Best-selling Dance Artist

• MTV Video Music Awards
  • Best Group Video
  • Best Dance Video (Nomination)

• MuchMusic Video Awards
  • Favorite International Group

• MTV Europe Music Awards
  • Best Group (Nomination)
  • Best Pop

• Prix Gemini (Canadian Award)
  • Best Performance in a Variety Program or Series

• Rolling Stone
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Band of the Year
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Album of the Year: Millennium
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Single of the Year: I Want It That Way
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Artist of the Year
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Tour: Into the Millennium
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Video: Larger Then Life
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Album Cover: Millennium
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Hype
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Best Dressed Artist
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Best Fan Site
  • Poll ? #1 Artist of the Year
  • Poll ? #1 Album of the Year: Millennium
  • Poll ? #1 Single of the Year I Want It That Way

• Canadian Chart Record
  • The only group in Canadian history to have three consecutive Diamond albums, commemorating sales of over one million units.
  • The first act to reach No. 1 with first three albums.
  • First week sales record in Canada, as tabulated by SoundScan: Selling in excess of 191,791 units.

• The Top 100 of 90's Everything (Canada and U.S.A.)
  • Top 100 Singles of the 90's That Stayed Longest on the Canadian Charts: Quit playing Games (With My Heart) (#2) (1997) (85 weeks), Get Down (You're the One for Me)(#7) (1996) (53 weeks)
  • Top 100 Groups of the 1990s in Canada: (#3)
  • Top 100 Groups of the 1990s in the US: (#3)
  • Top 100 Groups of All Time in Canada: (#6)
  • Top 100 Groups of All Time in US: (#10)

• Teen People poll
  • Best Boy Band: Backstreet Boys
  • Musical Act With All The Right Moves: Backstreet Boys
  • Best Milk Mustache: Backstreet Boys
  • Best Music Video: "I Want It That Way"
  • Best Summer Tour: In To The Millennium
  • Best Celeb Facial Hair: A.J. McLean
  • Most Creatice Coif: A.J. McLean

• Guinness Book of Records
  • Best Sales Week in History @1.13 Million Albums (Millennium)
  • Fastest Selling Album in a Year (Millennium)
  • Best-selling Album for First Half of 1999 (Millennium)
  • Most Radio Station Adds In First Week: "I Want It That Way" with 165 radio adds.
  • Most Tickets Sold In Oneday: 765,000 tickets (selling out all 53 concert dates)
  • US$14 million of merchandise was purchased by fans during the 1999 "Into The Millennium" tour.
  • The '99 tour drew over 2 million fans, breaking the record for largest indoor audience.
  • Most expensive music videos ever made: Larger Then Life (#5) (Cost: $2,100,000+)

• People magazine
  • 25 Most Intriguing People Of The Year: #1 (Backstreet Boys)
  • 25 Most Intriguing People Of The Year: #12 (Nick Carter)

• MTV
  • TRL's End Of Summer Countdown: I Want It That Way (#1)
  • Most Wanted Hits: --Artists Chart: (#1) --Albums Chart: (#1) --Songs Chart: (#1) --Videos Chart: (#1)

• YTV
  • YTV Year-end Countdown: I Want It That Way (#1), Larger Than Life (#3)

• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  • Songs that helped define the '90s : I Want It That Way (#4)

• Entertainment Weekly
  • The Best of 90's -- Music-: I Want It That Way (#3)
  • The 100 Greatest Entertainers of the 90's: (#2)

• SoundScan
  • Top 10 best-selling albums of the 90's: Millennium (#8), Backstreet Boys (#10)

2000

• American Music Awards
  • Favorite Pop/Rock Band, Duo or Group
  • Favorite Pop/Rock Album (Millennium) (Nomination)

• Star Concert Industry Award
  • Major Tour of the Year: In To The Millennium Tour 1999
  • Most Creative Stage Production: In To The Millennium Tour 1999

• Sonicnet/Addicted to Noise Readers Poll
  • Artist of the year
  • Album of the year: Millennium
  • Song of the year: I Want It That Way
  • Video of the year: Larger Than Life
  • Artist Website of the year
  • Live Band or Artist of the year
  • Tour of the year: In To The Millennium Tour

• Grammy Awards
  • The Boys received 5 Nominations--
  • Album of the Year: Millennium
  • Record of the Year: I Want It That Way
  • Song of the Year: I Want It That Way
  • Best Pop Album: Millennium
  • Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group: I Want It That Way

• Rolling Stone Grammy Poll
• Album of the year: #1 Millennium (24% votes)
• Record of the year: #1 I Want It That Way (29% votes)
• Pop album of the year: #1 Millennium (42% votes)

• Premios Amigo Awards (Spain)
  • Best International Band

• People's Choice Awards
  • Favorite Musical Group

• Juno Award
  • Best-selling Album: Millennium

• Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
  • Favorite Musical Group

• Forbes magazine
  • Top 100 Celebrity (Income and the media buzz): #8

• People Magazine
  • 50 Most Beautiful People: Nick Carter

• MCY.com
  • The most watched web event ever (A world record with over 55 million hits)

• Teen People
  • Music Special: Sexiest Pop Band

• Teen People poll
  • Best Boy Band: Backstreet Boys
  • Musical Act With All The Right Moves: Backstreet Boys
  • Best Music Video: "Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely"
  • Hottest Male: Nick Carter

• Teen.com Entertainment Awards
  • Best Group
  • Best Song (Group): Larger Then Life
  • Best Song: I Want It That Way
  • Best CD: Millennium
  • Hottest Male: Nick Carter

• Billboard Music Awards
  • Album Artist Duo/Group Of The Year (Nomination)
• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
  • Favorite Pop Group
  • Favorite CD: Millennium

• HarrisZone Grammy poll
  • Album of the Year (7685 votes): Millennium (64%)

• Viva Comet Awards
  • Band of the Year (U.S. Choice)-[4th year]

• Canadian Chart Record
  • Only group in history to dominate all charts simultaneously
  • The first act to reach No. 1 with first four albums.
  • First week sales record for a group in Canada, as tabulated by SoundScan: Selling in excess of 150, 000 units.
  • Canadian Adult Contemporary chart: Most weeks at No. 1 (14 weeks with "Shape Of My Heart")
  • The highest-ever debut ("Shape Of My Heart" debuted at No. 3, shattering the previous record of No. 10 set by U2.)
  • Longest stay at No. 1 (for 6 weeks with "Shape Of My Heart")
  • Most first-day spins on CHR Radio
  • Longest No. 1 on both CHR and AC chart (A combined 19 weeks at No. 1)

• Entertainment Weekly Poll
  • No. 1 Group Of The year (with 29.71% of the votes)
  • No. 1 Hottest Band (with 29.91% of the votes)
  • No. 1 People Of The Year (with 20.20% of the votes)
  • No. 2 Entertainer Of The Year (with 22.24% of the votes)
  • No. 2 Artist Of The Year (with 26.26% of the votes)
  • No. 3 Song Of The Year : Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely (with 21.18% of the votes)
  • No. 4 Video Of The Year : Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely(with 17.17% of the votes)
  • No. 2 Song That Touched Your Heart: Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely(with 19.10% of the votes)
  • No. 2 Hottest Blonde (Male): Nick Carter (with 21.20% of the votes)
  • No. 2 Hottest (Male): Nick Carter (with 16.13% of the votes)

• Teen Choice Awards
  • Choice Album: Millennium
  • Choice Single: Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
  • Choice Love Song: Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
  • Choice Pop Group
  • Choice Male Hottie: Nick Carter/li>

• World Music Awards
  • World's Best-selling American Group
  • World's Best-selling Pop Group
  • World's Best-selling R&B Group
  • World's Best-selling Dance Artist

• California Music Award
  • Outstanding Album ("Millennium")
  • Outstanding Single ("I Want It That Way")
  • Outstanding Group

• Billboard Music Video Award
  • Fantastic Video: ("Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely") (Nomination)

• MTV IMMIES (India)
  • Best Pop
  • Best CD

• LiveDaily's Best of 2005
  • Artist Of The Year
  • Best Performers
  • Best Official website
  • Song Of The Year

• MuchMusic Entertainment Awards
  • Combat Zone Weekend Champ: The One

• Billboard magazine's Year End Chart
  • The Billboard 200 Top Albums: #9 ("Millennium")
  • Top Pop Artist: #4
  • Adult contemporary artist of the year: #3
  • Hot Adult Contemporary: #4 Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
  • Billboard Hot 100: #6 Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely

• Canada's Year End Chart
  • Top Canadian Albums: #10 ("Millennium")
  • Top Canadian Singles: "Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely" ~ #1
  • Top Canadian Singles: "Larger The Life" ~ #10
  • Top Canadian Singles: "The One" ~ #16
  • Top Canadian Singles: "I Want It That Way" ~ #58
  • Music Video Sales: "Homecoming: Live In Orlando" ~ #10

• Radio Music Awards
  • Artist of the Year (Top 40/Pop Radio) (Nomination)
  • Song of the Year (Top 40/Pop Radio): Show Me the Meaning Of Being Lonely (Nomination)
  • Most Requested Slow Dance Song: Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
  • Artist of the Year (Top 40/Adult Radio)

• Guinness Book of Records
  • Best International Sales Week in History @ 5 million: "Black & Blue".
  • First artists in history to achieve back-to-back million-plus first week sales.
  • The highest debut certification: "Black & Blue", which was simultaneously certified Gold (500,000 copies), Platinum (1 million copies), and eight-times Platinum (8 million copies).
  • Most Radio Station Adds In First Week: "Shape Of My Heart" with 170 radio adds.
• Rolling Stone
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Band of the Year
  • Readers Poll ? #1 People of the Year
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Artist of the Year
  • Readers Poll ? #4 Single of the Year: Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
  • Readers Poll ? #2 Video: Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Best Dressed Artist
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Best Fan Site
  • Poll ? #2 Artist of the Year

• MTV
  • Most Wanted Hits: --Artists Chart: (#1)--Songs Chart: (#3) --Videos Chart: (#5)

• People magazine
  • 25 Most Intriguing People Of The Year: #1 (Backstreet Boys)
  • 25 Most Intriguing People Of The Year: #10 (Nick Carter)

• VH1
  • My VH1' Award: Favorite Group

• MuchMusic
  • Top Videos of '00: Shape Of My Heart (#2)

• YTV
  • YTV Year-end Countdown: Shape Of My Heart (#1), Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely (#20)

• MTV
  • 2000s Biggest Money Makers: CD Sales:(#1) $190,800,000 -- Tour Revenue:(#5) $25,800,000

• Rolling Stone Magazine
  • Rolling Stone & MTV: 100 Greatest Pop Songs Of All Time: "I Want It That Way" at #10.

2001

• American Music Awards
  • Favorite Pop/Rock Band, Duo or Group

• World Music Awards
  • World's Best-selling American Group
  • World's Best-selling Pop Group
  • World's Best-selling R&B Group
  • World's Best-selling Dance Artist

• Teen Scene Magazine
  • Best Tour: Black & Blue
  • Best Album: Black & Blue
  • Best Pop Group
  • Best Song: The Call
  • Best Video: The Call
  • Best Body: Nick Carter
  • Best Couple: Brian & Leighanne Littrell

• Grammy Awards
  • Best Pop Vocal Performance duo or group: Show Me The Meaning Of Being lonely (Nomination)

• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
  • Favorite Group
  • Favorite Pop Group
  • Favorite CD: Black & Blue (Nomination)

• Guinness Book of Records
  • "The Highest Selling Boyband In History" with over 77 million sales.
  • First group since The Beatles to achieve 30 million sales of two discs.
  • The Backstreet Boys' 2001 "Black & Blue World Tour" earned US$350 million in ticket sales, making the band among the world's highest-paid live entertainers.

• Canada's Record Book
  • First act to have all five albums to debut at No. 1 on the chart
  • The only group in Canadian history to have four consecutive Diamond albums, commemorating sales of over one million units.

• Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
  • Favorite Music Group

• Kentucky PRIDE Award
  • Establishing a foundation: Just Within Reach" foundation
  • Outdoor classroom: A.J. McLean for Lloyd Middle School

• People magazine
  • 25 Most Intriguing People Of The Year: #4 (Backstreet Boys)
  • 25 Most Intriguing People Of The Year: #10 (Nick Carter)

• Diamond Award (Canada)
  • Black & Blue certified as a Diamond album in Canada (1,000,000 units sold).

• Cosmo Girl Magazine
  • Sexiest Man in the World: A.J. McLean (Nomination)
  • Sexiest Man in the World: Nick Carter (Nomination)

• Teen Choice Awards
  • Choice Album: Black & Blue
  • Choice Single: The Call
  • Choice Pop Group
  • Choice Male Hottie: Nick Carter
  • Choice Love Song: Shape Of My Heart
  • Choice Concert

• Radio Music Awards
  • Most Requested Song: Drowning

• Rolling Stone
  • Readers Poll ? #3 Band of the Year
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Album of the Year: "Black & Blue"
  • Readers Poll ? #2 Artist of the Year
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Tour: "2001 Black & Blue World Tour"
  • Readers Poll ? #4 Video: "The Call"
  • Readers Poll ? #1 Best Dressed Artist
  • Readers Poll ? #2 Best Fan Site
  • Poll ? #3 Artist of the Year
  • Poll ? #2 Album of the Year: "Black & Blue"

• Entertainment Weekly Poll
  • No. 2 Entertainer Of The Year (with 21.94% of the votes)
  • No. 1 Group Of The year (with 31.23% of the votes)
  • No. 2 Artist Of The Year (with 15.94% of the votes)
  • No. 1 Album Of The Year : "Black & Blue" (with 30.12% of the votes)
  • No. 2 Video Of The Year : "The Call" (with 18.92% of the votes)
  • No. 1 Tour (with 24.10% of the votes)
  • No. 2 People Of The Year (with 21.11% of the votes)
  • No. 2 Hottest Blonde (Male): Nick Carter (with 20.10% of the votes)
  • No. 1 Hottest (Male): Nick Carter(with 20.16% of the votes)

• Saturday Night Live
  • 50 Best Episodes Of All Time: (#5) with Sarah Michelle Gellar

• Billboard magazine Poll
  • No. 1 Album Of 2001: Black & Blue with 30% votes (total doubled the next closest challenger, The Beatles' "1" (Apple/Capitol), which pulled in 15% of the vote.)
  • No. 1 Artist Of 2001 with 50% votes (three times more than next closest challengers, Destiny's Child and Shaggy, both pulled in 16% votes.)

• Billboard magazine's Year End Chart
  • The Billboard 200 Top Albums: #2 ("Black & Blue")
  • Top Pop Artist: #3
  • Adult contemporary artist of the year: #5
  • Hot Adult Contemporary: #7 "Shape Of My Heart"
  • Billboard Hot 100: #18 "Shape Of My Heart"

• Billboard Music Awards
  • Album of the Year: Black & Blue (Nomination)
  • Albums Artist of the year (Nomination)
  • Albums Artist Duo/Group of the year

• Canada's Year End Chart
  • Top Canadian Albums: #1 ("Black & Blue")
  • Top Canadian Singles: "Shape Of My Heart" ~ #1
  • Top Canadian Singles: "The Call" ~ #3
  • Top Canadian Singles: "More Than That" ~ #7
  • Music Video Sales: "Around The World With The Backstreet Boys" ~ #1
  • Music Video Sales: "Homecoming: Live In Orlando" ~ #13

• MuchMusic Video Awards
  • Favorite International Group

• My Vh1 Awards
  • Favorite Group
  • Must Have Album.

• MuchMusic
  • Top Videos of '01: Drowning (#3), The Call (#5), More Than That (#88)

• YTV
  • YTV Year-end Countdown: Drowning (#1), More Than That (#7), The Call (#12)

• Hollywood Walk of Fame
  • The Boys receive a Star on Walk of Fame

• Forbes magazine
  • Top 100 Celebrity (Income and the media buzz): (#7)

2002

• People's Choice Award
  • Favorite Musical Group

• World Music Awards
  • World's Best-selling American Group
  • World's Best-selling Pop Group
  • World's Best-selling R&B Group

• MTV Asia Awards
  • Favorite Pop Act
  • Favourite Video: The Call

• Juno Awards
  • Best-selling Album: Black & Blue

• Golden Hangar Award
  • Best Dressed Men @ the Grammys

• Grammy Awards
  • Best Pop Vocal Performance by a duo or group: Shape Of My Heart (Nomination)

• Rit Dye Entertainment Style Awards
  • Most stylish group
  • Most stylish Music Video - Drowning

• Key to the City of Baltimore Maryland
  • The Backstreet Boys receive the Key to the City of Baltimore from Mayor Martin O'Malley.
  • The Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland Martin O'Malley proclaims March 2, as the official "Backstreet Boys Day" in conjunction with their fan convention.

• Teen Scene Magazine
  • CD That Rocks Your World
  • Single That Rocks Your World
  • Group That Rocks Your World

• CosmoGirl magazine
  • Sexiest Man in the World: Nick Carter

• Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
  • Favorite Musical Group

• MTV Video Music Awards Japan
  • Best Group

• Forbes magazine
  • Top 100 Celebrity (Income and the media buzz): (#10)

• YTV
  • YTV Year-end Countdown: Help Me (#2)-Nick Carter

2003

• MTV TRL Award
  • Gridlock Award (Shutting Down Times Square)
  • Sneak Attack: Fake Satellite Interview
  • Carson's Most Uncomfortable Moment, with Angry Backstreet Boys Fan (Tiffany)

• MTV Japan Video Music Awards
  • Best Male Video: Help Me by Nick Carter (Nomination)
  • Best New Artist in a Video: Nick Carter
  • Best Pop Video: Help Me by Nick Carter (Nomination)

• Tony Awards
  • Audience Awards: Favorite Male Replacement- Kevin Richardson (Chicago -Billy Flynn)

• VH1
  • VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years: #61 I Want it That Way

2004

• Q magazine
  • Top 50 bands of all time: (#22)

2005

• MTV Latin American Awards
  • Favorite International Artist

• Russian Music Award
  • Best Comeback

• Relly Awards
  • Favorite Musical Guest

• Star Shine magazine (RCA awards)
  • Artist Of The Year
  • Album Of The year: Never Gone
  • Song Of The year: Incomplete
  • Best Group
  • Most Requested Song: Incomplete
  • Best Hit: Incomplete

• MuchMusic
  • Top 10 Balladeers Of All Time: #9 (Only group on the list which included artists such as Celine Dion).

• YTV
  • The HitList Special: Top Ten Boybands Of All Time: (#1)

• Teen Choice Award
  • Choice Love Song: Incomplete (Nomination)

• König Pilsener Arena (Germany)
  • "The Sold-Out Award" for a Record Breaking five Sell Out Shows

• LiveDaily's Best of 2005
  • Best Performers
  • Best Official website
  • Best Fan Site : (www.Not-like-you.com)

• Stylus magazine
  • Top 50 Singles of 2005: (#24) Incomplete

• Canada's Year End Chart
  • AC - #16
  • Hot AC - #59
  • CHR/Pop - #46
  • Canadian AC - #8
  • Canadian Hot AC - #20
  • Canadian CHR - #23

• Munich Olympic Walk of Stars
  • TheBoys received their stars

• Entertainment Weekly
  • Best 25 entertainers of the past 25 years (1980 - 2005): No. 17 Backstreet Boys

• United World's Year End Charts
  • Never Gone- #25

• Rick Dee's Year-End Chart
  • Incomplete - #42

• Z100's Top 100 of 2005
  • "Incomplete"-- #24
  • "Crawling Back To You"-- #58
  • "Just Want You To Know"-- #79

• Magazine's 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born
  • "I Want It That Way" (#16)
  • "Larger Then Life" (#292)

• Poll Star
  • Pollstar's Top 100 Tours of 2005: #51 ($12.6)

• Celender
  • World's Biggest Money Makers (Concerts and Album Sales) 1997-2005: #1 ($533.1)

2006

• Dove Award(GMA Music Awards)
  • Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year: "In Christ Alone" (Brian Littrell)

• Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
  • Favorite Music Group (Nomination)

• TRL Awards Italy
  • Best Group (Nomination)
  • Best No. 1 Video: "I Still..." (Nomination)

• Recording Academy Honors
  • The Backstreet Boys were honored by the Recording Academy in Miami, FL with a Recording Academy Honors award to mark their success in the Music industry so far.

• MTV Asia Awards
  • Favourite Pop Act

• Bravo Supershow - OTTO Awards
  • Superband Pop 2005

• 25 Memorable Moments
  • NO.16. TIMES SQUARE LIVE: October 22, 1998. The Backstreet Boys shut down Times Square during a "Total Request Live" appearance.

• 50 Years Bravo Charts
  • Note: BRAVO magazine is turning 50 and in celebration they compiled a list of the best songs from these past fifty years. The Backstreet Boys appear in it 17 times!
    
    
    
    
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