This Is Us Tour

Tour by Backstreet Boys
Promotional poster for the tour
Associated album	This Is Us
Start date	October 30, 2009 (2009-10-30)
End date	March 26, 2011 (2011-03-26)
Legs	4
No. of shows	122
Backstreet Boys concert chronology
Unbreakable Tour (2008–2009) This Is Us Tour (2009–2011) NKOTBSB Tour (2011–2012)

The This Is Us Tour was the eighth concert tour by American boy band, the Backstreet Boys. The tour promotes their seventh studio album, This Is Us (2009). The tour reached Europe, Asia, Australasia and the Americas. The tour was the second and final concert tour that the band had performed as a quartet before the original member Kevin Richardson returned on April 29, 2012.

Background

With the announcement of their seventh studio album, the band reported they will spend the latter half of 2009 and all of 2010 on the road.^[1] The trek began in Europe in October 2009 and ended in South America in March 2011. Band member, Howie Dorough stated the tour was not a comeback tour, after the sluggish sales of their last album. He stated the band has matured during their nearly 20 years in the music industry. This maturity would be reflected in their album and upcoming tour.^[2] He was later interviewed by Jam!, where he stated the band were in tour rehearsals and this would be the first tour in which the group had background dancers since 2001.^[3] To promote the tour, the band did several promotional performances in the United States, Japan, Spain and Switzerland. Some performances were cancelled due to the member Brian Littrell contracting H1N1.^[4] To introduce the tour, Nick Carter stated:

" a pop show, dancing, singing, cool gags, just big energy, explosions. You get to see a group who hopefully you've liked through the years. We perform our biggest hits -- we've got 10 or 12 top 10 hits around the world that people know -- so we perform those as well as songs off our new record. It's just jam-packed. We've got four dancers and big production.^[5]"

While on tour, it was announced the band will perform aboard Carnival Cruise Lines, Carnival Destiny with a show titled, "SS Backstreet"—done in similar vein to the New Kids on the Block and Boyz II Men.^[6] During the summer of 2010, the Backstreet Boys joined New Kids on the Block onstage at the Radio City Music Hall (as a part of NKOTB Casi-NO Tour), where the groups performed "I Want It That Way".^[7] Since the performance, the media began to circulate rumors of the two uniting for a tour in the summer of 2011.^[8] The tour is created by Live Nation Entertainment as an outlet to reignite the boy band fad in the United States.

The tour, named the NKOTBSB Tour, was officially announced on On Air with Ryan Seacrest. Due to demand, the Backstreet Boys continued their tour into 2011 with additional dates in South America and Asia.

Opening acts

• Ricki-Lee Coulter (Australia)^[9]
• J Williams (New Zealand)^[10]
• Mindless Behavior (North America) (select dates)^[11]
• Tino Coury (Pittsburgh show only) ^[12]
• Madcon (London, O2 Arena)
• Dan Talevski (North America) (select dates)
• Shawn Desman (North America) (select dates)

Set list

There was a concert DVD of the tour held in Japan.

Tour dates