Las Vegas is popping right into a boy band paradise!
Backstreet Boysand New Youngsters on the Block are each hitting the Strip with their very own Las Vegas residencies on the identical time. Followers can count on a double dose of nostalgia, filled with iconic hits, synchronized dance strikes, and a nostalgic feeling of childhood.
Whether or not you’re Crew Backstreet Boys or ride-or-die for NKOTB, one factor’s for positive: Vegas simply grew to become the last word summer time 2025 throwback vacation spot.
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New Youngsters On The Block Simply Started Their Vegas Residency At Dolby Stay At Park MGM
The Blockheads have arrived to Las Vegas in droves!
Final weekend, NKOTB’s “The Proper Stuff Las Vegas Residency” started, and followers got here from close to and much to get in on the motion. A fast scroll on TikTok and followers can catch clips of the primary two nights of the residency that has dates in June, July, November, and February 2026.
The Blast was available for the second evening of the residency, and it didn’t disappoint. From the opening quantity all the best way to the final tune, the 5 mates who joined the group in 1984 and debuted in 1986, had been excessive vitality and gave the followers what they needed.
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Backstreet Boys Start Their Vegas Residency At The Sphere On July 11
The Backstreet Boys have been noticed throughout Vegas forward of their residency opening evening on July 11. (My son casually bumped into AJ McLean whereas he was purchasing on the Strip this previous weekend.)
In line with the Sphere’s web site, “Followers can count on an unforgettable expertise because the band brings their legendary Millennium album to life alongside their best hits.”
Their residency has dates from July 11 by way of August 24, 2025, with a few of their reveals overlapping with NKOTB, making Vegas the right vacation spot for boy band lovers of all ages!
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Are The Two Boy Bands Competing In Las Vegas?
Maybe it is simply ironic (and positively iconic) that the 2 widespread teams have residencies in Las Vegas on the identical time. So, does that imply they’re competing with one another?
In an interview with E!Information, when NKOTB member, Joey McIntyre, was requested if the 2 bands are in competitors with one another in Vegas, he jokingly mentioned, “We do not speak to them. They will take their huge fats Sphere and stick it up…No, I am kidding.”
Donnie Wahlberg then added, “We love these guys. There is no competitors with us.”
He continued by sharing some perception into their present, “Your complete present goes to be distinctive. We’re crafting it particularly for Vegas and including issues that, in some ways, we are able to solely do in Vegas and are impressed by Vegas.”
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Backstreet Boys Hope To ‘Sound Like Angels’ In The Sphere
Earlier this 12 months, the group spoke to USA TODAY about their upcoming Vegas residency on the Sphere.
“Hopefully, we sound like angels,” Brian Littrell mentioned. AJ McLean added, “[There’s] not a foul seat in the home. All people will hear it sonically the identical, irrespective of the place you are sitting within the venue, which is unimaginable.”
The boy band is worked up to revisit “Millenium” for followers in Vegas.
“We had been beginning to get our rhythm with the music that we had been writing and creating together with our producers on the time,” Nick Carter mentioned. “It was the head for the Backstreet Boys and the music that we recorded. It was a superb time.”
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NKOTB Followers Can Examine Out Blockhead HQ Throughout The Residency
For any followers heading to Vegas to catch NKOTB throughout their residency, remember to go to Blockhead HQ for extra pleasure.
“Blockhead HQ can be open 12pm – 6pm beginning JUNE 20 for choose dates by way of JULY 5. (Open: JUNE 20-21, 25 – 28 and JULY 2 – 5). Followers will be capable to make advance reservations for choose time slots,” the group shared on their Instagram web page. “Reservations will open to the general public every Monday at 11am PST (beginning as we speak) for this upcoming week. (You may register for 1 session per day).”
Blockhead HQ is positioned on the former Double Barrel Saloon at 3770 S. Las Vegas Blvd, on the Strip facet, simply outdoors of Eataly.
Are you going to see NKOTB or Backstreet Boys, or possibly each, in Las Vegas? We would love to listen to all about it. E-mail me!
