Never Gone

Never Gone
Studio album by The Backstreet Boys
Released	June 14, 2005
Recorded	January 26, 2004-January 2005; Westlake Audio, Hollywood, CA Dr. Luke's New York, NY Woodland Ranch, Woodland Hills, CA Maratone Studio Stockholm, Sweden Henson Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA Conway Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA Turtle Sound Studios, New York City The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA The Underlab, Los Angeles CA
Genre	Pop, piano rock, rock, piano pop, power pop, pop rock
Length	47:41
Label	Jive
Producer	Max Martin, John Shanks, John Ondrasik, Dan Muckala, Gregg Wattenberg, Mark Taylor, billymann, Lukasz Gottwald, Johan "Brorsan" Brorsson, Paul L. Wiltshire, Jay Orpin, Victoria Wu, John Fields, Rami Yacoub
The Backstreet Boys chronology
The Hits: Chapter One (2001) Never Gone (2005) Unbreakable (2007)
Singles from Never Gone
"Incomplete" Released: April 1, 2005 "Just Want You To Know" Released: October 4, 2005 "Crawling Back to You" Released: October 11, 2005 "I Still..." Released: January 31, 2006

Never Gone was the eagerly awaited comeback album by US vocal group Backstreet Boys. Originally to be released in 2004, the release date was pushed back to June 14, 2005 for unknown reasons. The album varies musically from their previous albums, with a rock sound to the album. Unlike previous albums, the album featured only live instruments.

The album's first single is "Incomplete", and is followed by "Just Want You To Know". The third single worldwide is "I Still...". Other songs are "Weird World", "Beautiful Woman" and "Climbing The Walls". Never Gone has been certified as a platinum record in the U.S. It sold 293,000 copies during its first week of availability, and debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200. In Japan, it sold 528,000 copies and was second biggest western artist's album for 2005.^[1]

Never Gone was also released as a DualDisc. The DualDisc version features the music video for "Incomplete" and a short documentary showing the making of the video. It was also released in a CD and DVD double-disc edition.

This was the final album that former member Kevin Richardson collaborated on, as he left to pursue other interests following the conclusion of their world tour.

The Never Gone Tour commenced soon after the album's release.

On December 20, 2005 they released Never Gone "The Videos" which included behind the scenes footage of "Incomplete" and the video, along with "Just Want You To Know" (the behind the scenes, the original video, and the Sphyntker version), and their newest single "I Still", including comments from the Backstreet Boys from the set and video. The DVD also includes a slideshow with the music of "Just Want You To Know" and an interview in Germany about their upcoming tour.

Reception

Initial critical response to Never Gone were surprisingly generally negative due to the change from the band's traditional pop style. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 40, based on 7 reviews.^[2]

Track listing

#	Title	Writers	Producers	Time
01.	"Incomplete"	Dan Muckala, Jess Cates, Lindy Robbins	Dan Muckala	3:59
02.	"Just Want You To Know"	Max Martin, Lukasz Gottwald	Max Martin, Dr. Luke	3:51
03.	"Crawling Back To You"	Chris Farren, Blair Daly	John Fields	3:43
04.	"Weird World"	John Ondrasik	Gregg Wattenberg	4:12
05.	"I Still"	Max Martin, Rami Yacoub	Max Martin, Rami	3:46
06.	"Poster Girl"	Billy Mann, Rasmus Bähncke, René Tromborg	Billy Mann	3:54
07.	"Lose It All"	Alexander Barry, Shelly Peiken, Wally Gagel	John Fields	4:04
08.	"Climbing The Walls"	Max Martin, Lukasz Gottwald	Max Martin, Lukasz Gottwald	3:41
09.	"My Beautiful Woman"	Paul Wiltshire, Victoria Wu	Paul Wiltshire	3:34
10.	"Safest Place To Hide"	Tom Leonard., Robin Lerner	John Shanks	4:38
11.	"Siberia"	Alexandra Talomaa, Max Martin, Rami	Christian Nilsson, Johan Brorson	4:17
12.	"Never Gone"	Gary Baker, Kevin Richardson, Steve Diamond	Mark Taylor	3:45
13.	"Song For The Unloved" (Bonus Track)	Billy Mann, Chris Rojas	Billy Mann	3:40
14.	"Rush Over Me" (Bonus Track)	Harvey Mason, Jr., Damon Thomas[disambiguation needed ] Howie Dorough, AJ McLean, Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, Brian Littrell	The Underdogs	3:27
15.	"Movin' On" (Bonus Track)	Howie Dorough, Wade Robson, Nate Butler	David Thomas, Mark Kibble	3:29
16.	"Last Night You Saved My Life" (CD+DVD Package Bonus Track)			3:26

Unreleased Tracks

• "Set It Off" - 3:18
• "Can We Get Back To Love Again" - 4:19
• "All In This Together" - 3:47
• "Love Is" - 3:23
• "Divine Intervention" - 3:46
• "Over Her" - 4:21
• "You Can Tell Me" - 4:15
• "Loving You" - 3:51
• "Forces Of Nature" (Christopher Rojas, Billy Mann) - 3:22
• "Welcome To My Heart" - 4:38
• "Don't Disturb This Groove" David Frank, Mic Murphy - 5:03
• "Not No More" (Damon E. Thomas) - 4:04
• "Memories - 3:42
• "Colour My World" (Andreas Carlsson, Savan Kotecha, Harry Sommerdahl) - 4:04
• "Rumors" (Alex Hill^{[disambiguation needed ]}, Marcus Thompson, Michael Marshall^{[disambiguation needed ]})
• "The Best Of My Love" (Don Henley, Glenn Frey, J.D. Souther)
• "For The Love Of Money" (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Anthony Jackson^{[disambiguation needed ]})
• "Love Knows I Love You" - 4:16
• "Lift Me Up" (Darren Hayes, Rick Nowels) - 4:02
• "Let's Do It For Love" - 3:48

Reviews

• Allmusic link
• Blender
• E! Online link
• Entertainment Weekly
• PopMatters (2/10) link
• Robert Christgau (C) link
• Rolling Stone link
• Village Voice link

Charts

Chart (2005)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200	3
UK Album Chart	11
Australia ARIA Album Chart	6
Canadian Album Chart	1
German Album Chart	1
New Zealand RIANZ Album Chart	21
Indian Album Chart	1
Swiss Album Chart	3
Austrian Album Chart	4
French Album Chart	19
Dutch Album Chart	3
Belgium Flanders Album Chart	13
Belgium Walonia Album Chart	19
Chilean Album Chart[3]	1
South Korean Album Chart	1
Swedish Album Chart	3
Finnish Album Chart	5
Norwegian Album Chart	20
Danish Album Chart	11
Italian Album Chart	4
Spanish Album Chart	2
Portuguese Album Chart	8
Japanese Oricon Album Chart	3
Mexican Albums Chart	3
Hungarian Album Chart[4]	8

Sales and certifications

Country	Providers	Certification	Sales or Shipments
United States	RIAA	Platinum[5]	1,000,000+
Australia	ARIA	Gold[6]	35,000+
Canada	CRIA	Platinum[7]	100,000+
Germany	BVMI	Gold[8]	100,000+
Ireland	IRMA	Gold[9]	7,500+
Japan	RIAJ	2x Platinum [10]	500,000+
Mexico	AMPF	Gold[11]	50,000+
Portugal	AFP	Gold[12]	10,000+
Russia	NFP	Gold[13]	10,000+
Switzerland	IFPI	Gold[14]	15,000+
United Kingdom	BPI	Gold[15]	100,000+

References

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