Source: The Lexington Herald-Leader
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Published Friday, August 20, 1999, in the Herald-Leader
765,000 - Number of Backstreet Boys tickets sold on Saturday
30,000,000 - Dollars worth of tickets sold
39 - Cities in their North American arena tour
40 - Original number of shows booked and sold out
13 - Number of shows added
0 - Number of shows added in Lexington
37 - Minutes it took to sell out Lexington's one show at Rupp Arena
31 - Minutes it took for Garth Brooks to sell out his first of three Rupp shows last year
10 - Minutes it took for Madonna to sell out her 20,000-seat hometown venue outside of Detroit
8 - Minutes it took for the Boys to sell out the same venue
6,000,000 - Total albums the Boys have sold in America (*)
4,500,000 - Copies sold of Millennium, their latest album, which they released three months ago (*)
5 - Number of Backstreet Boys
Infinite - Heartbreaks among fans who walked away ticketless
(*) There may be some confusion on the part of the newspaper here.