50 years ago the Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show. This graphic postulates that they were the first popular band with the formulaÂ…the teenage pop group with smart front man, the cute one, the shyone, the funny guy, and the all-important manager. Through the glut of the 90Â’s, to the manufactured bands of the 2000Â’s, we see its success decade after decade...to One Direction: the billion dollar boy band. The highly merchandising brand is not just squeaky clean, bubble gum entertainment but a powerful cultural influence. The Boy - Band Blueprint From the Beatles to One Direction, the young dudes are N Sync Fans bid $ 100. 0 on eBay for a piece of Vegemite toast that member Niall Horan bit into in Sydney Beatlemania set off a merchandising frenzy that included a Flip Your Wig game, lunch boxes, figurines and serving trays AMERICAN BRITISH BRITISH / IRISH UU SPIN - OFF : BRIAN WILSON Kokomo hit No. 1 in November 1988, 24 years after the band s first chart topper, I Get Around PUERTO RICAN SCOTTISH The Wanted Life on El drew an audience of 1. 7 million viewers THE BEATLES HEYDAY : 1962 - 1970 BEACH BOYSHEYDAY : 1962-1975 3wa DIRECTION HEYDAY : 2012001 THIS MONTH MARKS THE SOTH ANNIVERSARY of the Beatles arrival in the. S. and the Fab Four s legendary appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964. While the lads quickly distanced themselves from their largely fabricated image as mop - topped Beatlemania inspiring dreamboats, their blueprint for a successful boy band - smart one ( John Lennon ), cute one ( Paul McCartney ), quiet one ( George Harrison ) and funny one ( Ringo Starr ) lives on. Whether their successors played surf music, suave R & B, novelty songs or sugary ballads, here s a look at the connections and characteristics that have defined five decades of adorable pop acts. THEWANTED HEYDAY : 2010-2013 SPIN - OFF : Michael Jackson outbid MICHAEL Paul McCartney for the JACKSON publishing rights to some 200 Beatles songs in the mid - 80s THE MONKEES HEYDAY : 1966 - 1970 Their squeaky clean image was sugarcoated, said Joe Jonas, who recently admitted to drug use BIGTIMERUSHHEYDAY : 2010 JACKSON 5 HEYDAY : 19691979 In 1963 5 - year - old Donny Osmond performed on The Andy Williams Show ; in 2009 he won Dancing With the Stars WITH FEW SUBSTITUTIONS, THE FORMULA THAT KEEPS ON WINNING : START HERE JONAS BROTHERS HEYDAY : 2005-2010 THEOSMONDS HEYDAY : 1971-1976 Instruments # not essential SPIN - OFF DONNY OSMOND CUTEONE BBMak s breakout song. Back Here, initially madea birger solash in the U. S. than in the band s native England BBMAKHEYDAY : 1999-2003 TOGETHER 5 CONSECUTIVE YEARS KNOWN TO PLAY OWN INSTRUMENTS HAD NO. 1 HIT SINGLE IN U. S. INCLUDED FAMILY MEMBERS SPAWNED FROM TV MADE CHRISTMAS ALBUM AT LEAST ONE MEMBER ARRESTED FAMOUS SOLO SPIN - OFF HAD A COMEBACK TOUR BAY CITY ROLLERS HEYDAY : 1973-1976 TALENTED, DREAMY HEARTTHROB BAD BOY HOMELY ONE HANSON HEYDAY : 1997 - 2000 NEWEDITION HEYDAY : 1983 - 1988 SPIN - OFF : BOBBY BROWN THE PUPPET MASTER > N Sync fans bought 1. 1 million copies of No Strings Attached on its first day in stores, making it the first album to hit seven figure sales in one day N SYNC HEYDAY : 1997-2002 MENUDO HEYDAY : 1981-1989 Bobby Brown said his earnings from New Edition tours and records amounted to $ 500 and a VCR Brian Epstein groomed the Beatles : Maurice Starr Greated New Edition and New Kids on the ; Lou Pearman invented Backstreet Boys and N Sync : Simon Cowel masterminded One Direction 98 DEGREES HEYDAY : 1997 - 2001 NEW KIDS ON THE HEYDAY : 1988-1992 Social media SPIN - OFF : RICKY MARTIN everything Its not about sales Its about tours SPIN - OFF JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE BACKSTREET BOYS HEYDAY : 1996 - 2001 BOYZ II MENHEYDAY 1991-1997 DI SPIN - OFF : NICK LACHEY The band s original name was Nynuk merch The reunited Backstreet Boys sang at a 2013Christmas concert in Washington, attended by the Obamas Members cycled out when their voices changed or they got too old ; Menudo had more than 30 members total Nick Lachey broke into reality TV on MTV s Newlyweds with Jessica Simpson before hosting NBC s The Sing - Off SOURCES : BILLBOARD. COM : BAND WEBSITES. REPORTING BY ALEX ACIMAN, MOLLY MARTIN. BROOK TWEETEN AND VICTOR WILLIAMS Named after the New Edition song Boys to Men
