**In the last update I told about the boys being nominated for the American Awards... They won the award for Best Pop/Rock Group. Congratulations!

**And talking about awards... the most important awards on the music business which are no other than the Grammy Awards are about to come! The ceremony will took place on 21th February at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Several tv channels will broadcast the ceremony live so don't miss it!! I don't know yet if the Boys will attend to the ceremony... They are just nominated in one categorie, Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. The other nominees in that categorie are: N Sync, Steely Dan, The Corrs and Barenaked Ladies. Luck Backstreet!!

**An important new to talk about is that the Black & Blue Tour finally started!!!! All the concerts have been an amazing success so far and according to the reviews I've read everybody seems to love the shows!! If you wanna read lots of details about the show, like the outfits the wear, the songs they sing, what do they do and all that you can take a look at a new section I've created at the specials section: Black & Blue Tour Details.

**Some dates have been added to their mexican tour, they will do three concerts so far. And then, the European Tour I'm just wondering WHEN ARE WE GONNA KNOW THE SCHEDULE FOR THE EUROPEAN TOUR?!?!?! :) I can't wait to know that! I just know that it's gonna be around June, as soon as I know something about the dates I'll tell you about it (Hope to tell you about it soon!)

**I'm sure all of you have already seen The Call Video. I think it's one of the best videos they've done so far, it's my fave along with Everybody. It's just great! More like a film than a video and that's the thing I love the most about it! I absolutely love the concept of the video and the way they act is just perfect! If you wanna see some pics of the set of this video take a look at the pics section. Talking bout The Call, the single was released on 5th February and it has (besides The Call) two versions of Shape Of My Heart.

**On 30th December AJ did a Johnny No Name appearance at the Hard Rock in Orlando. There were also Nick, Howie and Born Into Kaos (the band which leather is Nick best friend, Brent, and the band which Nick manages). It seems it was a must seen performance, AJ sang some powerful songs as Rolling by Limp Bizkit, or other 80's songs... I would love to have seen that. That day Nick had some cute braids leads. Playing that day was the old Backstreet Band.

**The Boys are nominated for the 2001 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, the awards will take place on 11th April and FOX channel will broadcast it. The Boys are nominated for Favorite Group of the Year along with Creed, Destiny's Child, 'N Sync and Santana. To vote for the boys click here.

**After a powerful single like The Call is the next single will be a ballad, the next single is supposed to be More Than That... I wish it was Shining Star :)