- - Backstreet Boys extend Sphere residency in Vegas for third time

Ralphie Aversa, USA TODAYFebruary 18, 2026 at 1:19 AM

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NEW YORK – What happens in Vegas will continue to stay in Vegas as the Backstreet Boys reveal they will continue their residency at Sphere with six new dates.

Tickets for the new dates – July 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25 – go on sale at 9 a.m. PT Feb. 27 at backstreetboys.com. Various presales, including Backstreet Boys Fan Club Presale (9 a.m. PT Feb. 24) and the Ticketmaster Artist Presale (9 a.m. PT Feb. 25), are being offered.

While promoting the band's T-Mobile Super Bowl commercial, Howie Dorough accidentally spilled the beans on the new dates to USA TODAY. His bandmates were a little stunned, save Kevin Richardson.

"Be at the Sphere next summer," Richardson says, with Dorough paraphrasing the old MTV News slogan, "You heard it first right here."

"Into the Millennium" has been a runaway success for the group and the state-of-the-art Las Vegas venue. The initial 21 show run took place last summer and sold out completely. That demand led to additional dates in December and February. So far, the Backstreet Boys have performed for over 575,000 fans across 35 sold-out dates at Sphere, according to Live Nation.

The Backstreet Boys are raised high above the crowd during their Sphere residency, "Into the Millennium," in Las Vegas.

"We have about four generations that come and see our show," AJ McLean says. "Sometimes five. It's very surreal. It truly is a phenomenon and we're very lucky."

Brian Littrell enjoys seeing how the fans react to the show on social media; those platforms didn't exist during the original Millennium tour over two decades ago. He believes the full circle moment of audiences returning to see the performance has made their love for the group even more "real."

"They were just kids coming with their parents," he says of the initial 1999-2000 run. "It was kind of like this myth of, 'Oh my gosh, we love the Backstreet Boys, this is great. (The Sphere) makes it real for the fans. And that's what they've been talking about on social media."

"There's been a lot of groups that have come and gone and we've been very fortunate enough to maintain a 32-year long career," McLean says. "We attribute that to the fans, to the music."

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