Last week's big news on the boy band front was that The Backstreet Boys would be joining up with The Spice Girls for a tour later during 2014. Those rumors remain rumors, and nothing more. We have solid fact for you now however: O-Town is mounting a comeback. Nothing has been made official in terms of live dates, but new music shall be released, according to member Jacob Underwood.
The news doesn't come as a total surprise for people that have been actively looking for O-Town news online. Official Facebook and Twitter pages for the group emerged during October 2013, indicating that something was in the works. The group then launched a new site, OTownOfficial.com, last Monday, which featured a clock ticking down. The clock has since been removed.
The bad news for fans, or at least some of them, is that member Ashley Parker Angel won't be part of the reunion. Underwood, Erik-Michael Estrada, Dan Miller and Trevor Penick will continue as a quartet.
"We started this reunion purely for the fun of it," says Underwood. "We had discussed a summer tour to perform our old songs and finally give the fans what they've been asking us for the last 10 years. However, once we began working, what developed was something a little more ambitious. The ideas kept flying and we couldn't help but start making new music."
O-Town rose to fame as part of ABC's Making The Band television program, and its debut album has moved 1.7 million copies since then, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The group's biggest hit, "All Or Nothing," rose to no. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
