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"Stay The Same" - Joey McIntyre
from the album Stay The Same (1999)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11
Today's song comes from singer Joey McIntyre, who was a part of the massively successful "boy-band" New Kids On The Block from 1985 to 1994, where they racked up ten top-40 pop hits in America, with "If You Go Away" reaching the level in the spring of 1992. McIntyre started a solo career, and after putting out an album independently and getting good response, was signed to Columbia Records' C2 imprint, releasing Stay The Same in 1999. The title track and lead single "Stay The Same" was written by the singer with Joe Carrier, and produced by Carrier with Dan Shea and Walter Afanasieff, the latter explaining the grandiose sound of the record. The lyrics are really banal self-help fluff found in greeting cards and Christian pop, but Joey tries his utter best to sell this by signing at the top of his lungs with a whole studio gospel choir backing him up at the end. In these times, McIntyre would find himself in the running on The Voice, but as the NKOTB fanbase bought this up, McIntyre found himself back on the pop charts yet again...
"Stay The Same" became McIntyre's first and only solo top-40 pop hit, reaching the top ten in April of 1999. Internationally, the single made the top-40 in Australia at #31, and was a minor hit in Canada at #52. The Stay The Same album, released in March of that year, climbed to #49 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, going on to sell over a half million copies.
Joey's follow-up single, "I Love You Came Too Late", made the top ten on the singles sales chart, and #34 on the "pop radio" list, but stalled down at #54 on the all-genre Hot 100. It also got to #71 in Canada.
Since then, Joey has released five more solo albums, the most recent being his holiday set Come Home For Christmas in 2011.This year, McIntyre released the single "Prolific", as well as a duet with fellow 80's veteran Debbie Gibson on her re-do of "Lost In Your Eyes". He's had bigger success on the stage, appearing on Broadway in Wicked, as well as a season-long stint on the TV show Boston Public. Although this is his last time as a solo artist on this series, he will return with his former "New Kids".
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