Editing Boy band (section)

===Late 1970s and 1980s: Menudo, New Edition, and New Kids on the Block===
[[File:NKOTB 2008-11-06.jpg|thumb|left|[[New Kids on the Block]] in concert, November 2008]]
The Puerto Rican boy band [[Menudo (band)|Menudo]], appealing to young [[Latino (demonym)|Latina]] audiences, was founded in 1977. Menudo had a convention unique among boy bands: when a member turned 16, became too tall, or their voice changed, they were replaced. The members of Menudo were generally aged 12–16. Menudo had a large impact in Latin America and in Asia; Menudo fever there was compared to Beatlemania and it was nicknamed "Menudomania". 

Boston group [[New Edition]] was formed in 1978 and reached their height of popularity in the 1980s, meaning they are often credited for starting the boy-band trend, even though the term "boy band" did not exist until the 1990s. [[Maurice Starr]] was influenced by New Edition and popularized it with his [[Mentorship|protégé]] [[New Kids on the Block]] (NKOTB), the first commercially successful modern boy band, which formed in 1984 and found international success in 1988. Starr's idea was to take the traditional template from the R&B genre (in this case his teenage band New Edition) and apply it to a pop genre.

[[Bros (British band)|Bros]] (abbreviation of the word "brothers") were a British boy band active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, consisting of twin brothers [[Matt Goss|Matt]] and [[Luke Goss]] along with [[Craig Logan]]. Formed in 1986, they scored multiple top 10 hits between 1987 and 1989 and in 1988 became the first modern era–style boy band to have a multiple platinum-selling album in the UK, with ''[[Push (Bros album)|Push]]'', still one of the most successful boy-band albums in the UK. Other big boy bands in Britain during the late 1980s were [[Big Fun (boyband)|Big Fun]] and [[Brother Beyond]].