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European success sent them there on a summer tour and shifted their promotion being mostly done in Europe.

The spring of 1996 the group finished recording their first album Backstreet boys and it was released internationally on May 6, 1996,excluding U.S. and Canada; however, it was later released in Canada in October 1996.

Their popularity grew in Europe. They also earned their first platinum record in Germany in 1996 for selling 500,000 copies of their debut album and shortly thereafter they began touring Asia and Canada.

They also became one of the most successful debut artists in the world, collecting awards such as Durchstarter (Best Newcomers) in Germany's Viva Comet awards in 1996.

"Quite playing games( with my Heart)"originally released in Europe as their fourth single in October 1996, was released in the U.S. in May 1997 for their upcoming self titled  U.S debut album .

 It managed to peak at No. 4 on the billboard  hot 100eventually earning them a platinum-award for selling over one million copies.

In November 1997, doctors discovered that a congenital hole in Brian's heart had enlarged to dangerous proportions. Brian had postponed  the surgery  twice to meet touring obligations, and he finally underwent the surgery on May 8, 1998, in the middle of the Backstreet Back  tour The group postponed the tour until July 1998 to give Brian time to recover.

Brian  brought in a lawsuit against Louand Trans Continental in 1998, claiming that Pearlman had not been truthful about the earnings made by the group. From 1993 to 1997, Pearlman and his company took about $10 million in revenue while the band only got $300,000.
In the following year,Aj, Kevin, and Howie joined the lawsuit which eventually resulted in a number of settlements.

Millennium was released on May 18, 1999, on which day the Backstreet Boys made a heavily publicized appearance on MTV's Total Request live .

The album, Black & Blue, was released on November 21, 2000.

The Hits – Chapter One, their first compilation album, was released on October 23, 2001.

In 2002, the group expressed a strong desire to leave their management company, The Firm.However, Carter chose to remain with The Firm to manage his solo career. Shortly afterward, the rest of the group began recording their next album without him. The relationship with JIVE Records worsened when the Backstreet Boys filed a $75–100 million lawsuit against Zomba Music Group (JIVE's parent company), claiming breach of contract. They claimed that the label promoted Nick 's solo album Now or Never at the expense of the group.

In November 2003, Aj appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to talk about his addiction to alcohol and drugs and his struggles rising to fame for the first time in public.The rest of the group surprised him by appearing in person to give him support, marking the first time the Backstreet Boys had appeared together in public in almost two years.

The group began to reform and reconcile their differences, planning to start recording a comeback album at the beginning of the following year.After spending more than a year recording, the Backstreet Boys finally released their comeback album Never Gone on June 14, 2005.

On June 23, 2006, it was announced that Kevin had left the Backstreet Boys to pursue other interests.

Two days after Kevin's departure announcement, the Backstreet Boys entered the studio to record their sixth album. The album, titled Unbreakable, was released on October 30, 2007.

On October 6, 2009, the group released their next album, This Is Us.

A few days after promoting the new album and filming the music video for "Bigger" in Japan, Brian contracted swine flu, causing the group to cancel a signing at Hard Rock Café in New York for the NYC Pinktober event on October 5, 2009.