joey is a teapot wrote:
And then when they made it in North America, their management forgot they'd ever had a fanbase anywhere else and half-assed their promo outside North America. NSA sold 13.2 million copies worldwide in 2000 - almost 10 million of which were in the US alone. Usually, when an album sells that much in the US, it's sales everywhere else are...a lot more than 3 million copies. I think Celebrity actually had better non-US sales. And outside of Rock In Rio and a few isolated dates on PopOdyssey, their touring was pretty much exclusively the US and Canada after NSA hit.
^This is what I mean. I'm not saying absolutely no one in the world knew who they were but they were biggest in the US and didn't seem to sell much outside of home, whereas BSB has always done super well in the US + worldwide. It just seemed at the time Nsync was on their same level or maybe bigger, but in reality they really weren't and that shocked me.