According to sales, Boyz II Men is the virtually all successful R&B group of all time. Getting recorded 5 #1 popular hits between 1992 and 1997, and marketing assibilate 25 million records. 3 of their #1 hits, "End of the Road", "I'll Make Love to You", and "One Sweet Day" (a duet with Mariah Carey), set and broke records for the longest period of time a single remained at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Boyz II Men were originally signed to Motown Records from either 1990 to 2000, at which point they were moved to parent label Universal Records. Fallowing a 2000 album Nathan Shawn Michael Wanya, Boyz II Men moved to Arista Records. Inside 2003, Michael McCary left a class action due to chronic back problems ensuant from either scoliosis. When of 2005, Wanya Morris, Shawn Stockman, & Nathan Morris prove my point to tour & record as a trio.

History
Beginnings
A class action that late became Boyz II Men was founded around 1988 at the Senior high of the Creative & Performing Arts within Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There, friends Nathan Morris and Marc Nelson had put together many various R&B singing groups, all of which fell through. Finally, it recruited tenors Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman and bass Michael McCary, and began performing when "Unique Attraction".

A members of Unique Attraction idolized New Edition, one of the virtually all popular R&B groups of the 1980s. It observed inspiration around Future Edition's harmonies & routines, & finally renamed itself "Boyz II Men" when a title of one of Future Edition's songs.

Sneaking backstage when the 1989 concert performed by BellBivDeVoe (a Just released Edition spin-by-product class action consisting of Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe), Boyz II Men performed an a cappella rendition ofJust released Edition's "Can You Stand the Rain" for Future Editon/BBD leader Michael Bivins. Bivins was impressed per class action, & began plans to sign the babies to Motown Records through a production treat using his Biv Ten Records company. Prior to the class action began recording, notwithstanding, Marc Nelson left Boyz II Men because of personality conflicts, reducing a quintet to a quartet.

Cooleyhighharmony
Boyz II Men's foremost album, Cooleyhighharmony, was released around Motown in 1991, executive produced by Michael Bivins. ''Cooleyhighharmony's'' drum-dense new jack swing sound and multi-layered sampled backdrops were similar to that of BellBivDeVoe's have operate, however featured smooth classic-soul styled vocals in situ of BBD's rapping and brassier singing. This style was dubbed "hip hop doo wop" by the group & Bivins, world health organization presented Boyz II Men & adolescent R&B group Another Bad Creation to the public as BBD's protégés.

Boyz II Men's foremost lone, a Dallas Austin-produced "Motownphilly" featured BBD as guest performing artist, & was accompanied using the music video that presented the class action around hip hop style. Their 2nd only was the handle of the classic Motown tune, G.C. Cameron's "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" from the 1975 film Cooley High, while "Uhh Ahh" served as the third single.

From either a beginning, Boyz II Men featured whole iv members short term trading leads, avoiding the common R&B group arrangement of one or two lead singers and a team of background singers. the multiple-lead arrangements became a Boyz II Men trademark, & it became average to hear Wanya Morris' vibrato-strong tenor, Shawn Stockman's smoother tenor, Nathan Morris' additional on line-low-keyed 2nd tenor/baritone, & Michael McCary's deep bass (notably utilized witharound spoken-word sections of numerous Boyz II Men hits) day trading blocks in every song. Eventually, Wanya Morris would turn into something of a de-facto leader of a class action, treating its operations & business interests, however the class action never bestowed 1 human when thomas more significant than the more.

Cooleyhighharmony was the major profits for the class action, Bivins, & Motown. It yet sold terminated nine million copies, "Motownphilly" & "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" were #1 R&B hits and top five U.S. popular hits, a album won a 1992 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, and Boyz II Men joined Hammer's high-profile 2 Legit 2 Quit tour as an opening act. When traveling a united states, their tour manager Khalil Roundtree was murdered, & a class action's first performances of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" were dedicated to him.

"End of the Road"
Around 1992, Boyz II Men recorded a only "End of the Road", written and by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, for the soundtrack to Eddie Murphy's film Boomerang. "End of the Road became a record-breaking success, remaining at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for thirteen weeks, breaking the previous record of 11 weeks set by Elvis Presley with "Don't Be Cruel"/"Fox Puppy" in 1956. Cooleyhighharmony was reissued in 1993, with "Prevent of the Road" added as a special bonus track.

II''
Ninteen ninety-four saw the release of Boyz II Men's second album, II. Most of the tracks on II were written and produced by Babyface and the successful team of Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis; Michael Bivins distanced himself from Boyz II Men to focus on developing new acts. Several of ''II's'' tracks became major hit singles, among them Jam & Lewis's "On Bended Knee", and Babyface's "I'll Make Love to You" and "Water Runs Dry". "Thank Wise shoppers" and the hip hop soul track "Vibin'" both missed the U.S. Top 20; but "H2o Diarrhea Dry" peaked at #2, and "I personally'll Produce Love to Busy people & "On Bended Knee" became #1 hits.

"I'll Make Love to You" notably broke "End of the Road's" baker's dozen-week record at #1, by spending xiv weeks at the top of the chart (a effort equaled earliest that season by Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You"). "On Bended Knee" replaced "I'll Make Love to you" at #1, making Boyz II Men a third work to replenish themselves at #1, fallowing Elvis & The Beatles. Meanwhile, 2 sold concluded twelve million copies in a United States alone, becoming the right-selling album ever freed by an R&B group act.

1995: Collaborations
In the period of 1995, Boyz II Men made many notable appearances in more creative person' recordings. Wanya Morris appeared in Brandy's single "Brokenhearted", when a class action as a whole trend lines LL Cool J on his 1995 hit "Hey Lover".

It was a class action's collaboration sustaining Mariah Carey that proved to be a virtually all notable. "One Sweet Day", a duet between Carey & Boyz II Men involved in Carey's 1995 LP Daydream, became a smash profits, & topped a United states popular stock and index charts for 16 weeks, a record which the song holds to this day.

Inspirations, influence, and impact
By this point, Boyz II Men were among a virtually all popular acts in the united states. Popular by having each mainstream & R&B audiences, Boyz II men became recognized as something of a 1990s version of The Temptations, the 1960s Motown act that became the label's best-selling male group act. Numerous of A elements that processed A Temptations, classic Motown creative person like The Four Tops and Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, and Boyz II Men's mentors New Edition successful were adapted by the group, including a clean-cut image, smooth harmonies, and synchronized dance and performance movements. the members of Boyz II Men were particularly noted for their vocal abilities, & helped prove my point a trend within R&B towards an emphasis on emotive singing with significant use of melisma, a trademark of Wanya Morris' singing.

A influences of a class action were felt & heard through throughout the R&B world, with several R&B competitors – among them, Shai, Soul for Real, BLACKstreet, and later Dru Hill, Jagged Edge, and, featuring old Boyz II Men member Marc Nelson, Az Yet – showing obvious inspiration from Boyz II Men's work and singing style. Boyz II Men's nearest contender, Uptown Records act Jodeci, were, with their grittier & extra sexually charged style, a polar opposite of Boyz II Men's wholesomeness. Jodeci's style experienced its have followers (numbers of of the two, Dru Hill & Jagged Edge up particular, it shared by having Boyz II Men), however their influence on the music industry when a whole wwhen non as far flung as that of Boyz II Men.

Maybe potentially supplementary luminary is that many record producers, Lou Pearlman in particular, saw Boyz II Men's popularity by using whiten audiences, & developed many acts in the equivalent vein when Boyz II Men, however with whiten male singers instead of melanise ones. Because of this, Boyz II Men is typically considered to keep close at hand began a "boy band" craze that reached a climax per prevent of the 1990s, with groups like The Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, going in to far flung international profits, & others, like Motown work 98 Degrees, finding other moderate mainstream profits.

Evolution and label conflicts
Riding high on the profits of the virtually all successful work ever on the label, Motown issued A Remix Collection, the compilation of remixes of various Boyz II men songs from Cooleyhighharmony & Deuce. A class action itself got opposed a release of a collection, & following friction arose between a label & the class action. Boyz II Men install their record label Stonecreek (which freed lesson by creative person like Uncle Sam) to be distributed by Columbia Records, not Motown. Following, tensions were high while it come period to release a next Boyz II Men album.

Evolution, released around 1997 to mixed reviews, and sold 2 million copies, far following ''Deuce's 12 million & Cooleyhighharmony's 9 million. Simply one of Evolution's singles, a Jam/Lewis-penned "Four Seasons of Loneliness", manufactured it to #1. The 2nd only, a Babyface-helmed "A Song for Mama" (a theme song to the Babyface-produced film Soul Food'') was a Top 10 hit, however a watch-higher "Can't Let Her Go" underperformed.

When a label problems mounted, unhealthiness began to require their toll on the class action. When you took tour to trend lines a Evolution album, Wanythe Morris developed a polyp on his vocal cords, and a class action was forced to postpone a portion of the tour until he recovered. Meanwhile, Michael McCary was diagnosed sustaining rheumatoid arthritis, which limited his ability to dance at live performances; the more 3 members in time resorted to with McCary sitting in a feces when it did all the terpsichore themselves.

Boyz II Men's final Top 40 hit was "I Will Get There", the Diane Warren-penned single freed within trend lines of the soundtrack to DreamWorks' first alive feature, The Prince of Egypt. "I Will Get There" isAs well notable for existence one of the pack Boyz II Men hit singles wholly sung a capella.

Nathan Shawn Michael Wanya
Around 1999, Motown's parent company, Polygram, was bought by Universal Music Group. Amidst a major corporate restructure, Motown was merged using UMG's Universal Records, where Boyz II Men witnessed themselves reassigned.

Their merely studio LP for Universal, 2000's Nathan Shawn Michael Wanya, was chiefly written & by a class action itself, around an attempt to upgrade their healthy & ward off critics world health organization questioned a class action's reliance in Babyface's hit-making songcraft. When a critics were supplementary open to Nathan Shawn Michael Wanya than it got been to its predecessor, a LP sole sold 500,000 copies, & although its ii singles, "Pass You By" & "Thank You in Advance" recieved media attention, neither in the end became hits.

Full Circle and "The Color of Love"
Boyz II Men departed from either Universal around 2001, and the label freed a greatest hits collection, Legacy: A Greatest Hits Collection, to close out their contract. Singing the freshly treat by having Arista Records in 2002, Boyz II Men began recording the Full Circle album, and recruited Babyface for the recently individual, "The Color of Love". Aristthe licensed a high-budget music streaming, shot inside quartet different locals by quatern different directors: erent venue by quadruplet different directors: supervising director Little X filmed scenes featuring Michael McCary in India, Hype Williams filmed Sean Stockman in Tokyo, Benny Boom filmed Nathan Morris in Ghana, and Chris Robinson filmed Wanya Morris in Puerto Rico. the consequent music videos got a high-profile debut in BET, but failed to produce an impact, & Good Circle, rather Nathan Shawn Michael Wanya prior to it, sold upright across 500,000 copies.

Throwback
In January 30, 2003, Michael McCary left the class action & retired from either performing. Arista terminated Boyz II Men's contract in April 30, and a leftover terzetto members took a irregular hiatus from either the music industry. When a year away from a spotlight, Boyz II Men created the independent label MSM Music (distributed across Koch Records), and freed a Throwback, Vol. One LP, the collection of covers of songs like The Dazz Band's "Let it Whip", Michael Jackson's "Human Nature", &, when a lone, Bobby Caldwell's "What You Won't Do for Love". Throwback, Vol. Ace reached #59 on the Billboard 200, & Vol. Ii is potential in the nigh new.

Members
Wanya Morris (1988 - ) Shawn Stockman (1988 - ) Nathan Morris (1988 - ) Michael McCary (1988 – 2003) Marc Nelson (1988 – 1989)

Discography
Regular studio albums
|- !Season || Album title || Chart position || Gross sales status |- | 1991: || Cooleyhighharmony
reissued in 1993 with additional tracks || #3 United states of america, #7 UK || 9x Atomic number 78 US |- | 1994: || II
also issued in Spanish language version|| #1 U.s.a., #17 UK || 12x Pt (Diamond) US |- | 1997: || Evolution
also issued in Spanish language version|| #1 United states of america, #2 May || 2x Pt US |- | 2000: || Nathan Shawn Michael Wanya || #4 US || Gold US |- | 2002: || Full Circle || #1United states || Gold US |- | 2004: || Throwback, Vol. 1 || #54 US || |}

Compilations and special albums
|- !Season || Album title || Chart position |- | 1992: || Christmas Interpretations
(Christmas LP) || #19 US |- | 1995: || The Remix Collection
(remix LP) || #17 US |- | 1999: || The Ballad Collection
(compilation LP)|| |- | 2001: || Legacy: The Greatest Hits Collection
(greatest hits LP)|| #89 US |- | 2003: || 20th Century Masters - The Millenium Collection: The Best of Boyz II Men
(greatest hits LP)|| |}

Singles
|- !Month || Individual title || Chart position |- | 1991: || "Motownphilly"|| #3 US, #23 UK - 1992 release |- | 1991: || "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" || #2 US |- | 1991: || "Uhh Ahh" || #16 US |- | 1992: || "Please Don't Go" || #49 US |- | 1992: || "End of the Road" || #1 US, #1 UK |- | 1993: || "In the Still of the Nite (I'll Remember)" || #3 United states of america, #27 UK |- | 1993: || "Let It Snow" || #32 US |- | 1994: || "I'll Make Love To You" || #1 US, #5 UK |- | 1994: || "On Bended Knee" || #1 US, #20 UK |- | 1995: || "Thank You" || #21 United states, #26 UK |- | 1995: || "Water Runs Dry" || #2 America, #24 UK |- | 1995: || "Vibin'"|| #56 US |- | 1995: || "One Sweet Day"
(Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men) || #1 US, #6 UK |- | 1995: || "I Remember" || #46 US |- | 1995: || "Hey Lover"
(LL Cool J featuring Boyz II Men) || #3 US, #17 UK |- | 1997: || "4 Seasons of Loneliness" || #1 U.s.a., #10 UK |- | 1997: || "A Song for Mama" || #7 The states, #34 UK |- | 1998: || "Can't Let Her Go" || #23 UK |- | 1999: || "I Will Get There" || #32 US |- | 2000: || "Pass You By"|| |- | 2000: || "Thank You in Advance" || #80 US |- | 2002: || "The Color of Love" || |- | 2004: || "What You Won't Do for Love" || |}