B5, P. Diddy's
Latest Discovery, Debut in Top 20 on Billboard
200, Top 12 in R&B
NEW YORK,
/PRNewswire/ -- Bad Boy Entertainment's B5 made an
impressive debut at #19 this week on the Billboard
Top 200 and also enter at #11 on the Billboard R&B
Top 200 Album's Chart with their highly
anticipated self-titled CD. The Atlanta-based
brothers -- Dustin, Kelly, Patrick, Carnell, and
Bryan Breeding -- merge the old school flair,
finesse and energy of the Jackson Five with the
modern day pop appeal of N'Sync. B5 have drawn
acclaim for their electrifying, high-energy stage
shows -- complete with street dancing, old school
stepping and acrobatics -- and have already
performed with the likes of Mario Winans, Kanye
West, Ginuwine, Usher, Fantasia, Bow Wow, Joe and
others.
B5 have been the highlight of the eagerly awaited
"BET Presents Scream Tour IV Festival: The Heart
Throbs 2005." The cross-country trek features some
of the biggest young names in R&B, including Bow
Wow, Omarion, Marques Houston, and Bobby
Valentino. Scream Tour IV kicked off July 20th at
Trenton, NJ's Sovereign Arena and will spend the
summer rolling through amphitheaters and arenas in
close to 30 cities, including an August 24th stop
at New York City's Madison Square Garden (see
attached itinerary).
B5 are also headliners this summer on the "Teen
People Rock N' Shop Mall Tour," sponsored by Teen
People magazine. The tour kicked off in
Minneapolis' Mall of America on Friday, July 8th
with an amazing turnout. Their signing session
scheduled for after their performance, however,
was shut down when the boys were mobbed on their
way from the stage to the signing area by over
1,000 excited and screaming teenage fans all
wanting autographs.
Describing them as "the group that fills a void in
the music industry," Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and his
team pulled out all the stops when it came to B5,
hooking them up with some of the top producers in
the business, among them Rodney Jerkins (Michael
Jackson, Brandy, Whitney Houston), Ryan Leslie
(Britney Spears, Carl Thomas), Sean Garrett
(Usher, Ciara), Corna Boyz (Jagged Edge), Veit
Renn (Backstreet Boys), and, of course, Harve
Pierre and P. Diddy himself.
B5's second single, "U Got Me," is currently
impacting at multi-format radio and video outlets
coast to coast. They are #9 this week on the Radio
Disney chart and are making a steady climb! The
video appears on BET's 106 & Park Countdown show
weekly and is also getting attention at MTV with
spins on MTV Hits. B5 are well known among teen
music fans. Their website, B5online.com, received
more than 10 million hits just during the month of
June and a chat with B5 on Teenmusic.com, one of
the top teen website, crashed when more then
10,000 kids tried to log on at once. The site
received more then 5000 questions for B5 before
crashing.
Source: PRNewswire PR
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