BBMak
Encyclopedia
BBMak were an English
pop
group consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns
and Stephen McNally
. Together they sold nearly three million album
s and spawned two Top 10 and Top 40 singles
worldwide between 1999 when the group was formed and 2003 when they eventually disbanded. The band also guest starred on Disney's television show, Even Stevens
in 2001.
" was released, it barely made it into the Top 40 in the United Kingdom
. BBMak's debut album, Sooner or Later, was released in 2000 and sold over one million copies, giving the re-release of "Back Here" to gain more publicity and the single eventually climbed to #5 on the UK Singles Chart
, #13 on the U.S.
Billboard Hot 100
chart
and #1 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart
. The band's next single, "Still On Your Side," reached #8 in the UK and #54 in the US. BBMak closed that year with sold out concert
s and a live performance on MTV
in Times Square
on New Year's Eve
. In 2001 BBMak released a DVD
called Sooner Or Later: Our First Year in America and their third single "Ghost of You and Me" peaked at #8 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart.
to The Princess Diaries
.
Later that year in October, Christian Burns' vocals were featured along with those of 'N Sync
's Lance Bass
and Joey Fatone
, Mandy Moore
and True Vibe
on the single "On The Line" for the film of the same name.
The song "Don't Look Down" was also featured on the soundtrack to On The Line.
The "Out of Reach" track from the album Into Your Head
appeared in one of the episodes of the Lizzie McGuire
hit TV series season 2.
The band contributed a song titled "Always Know Where You Are" to Disney's "Treasure Planet
" soundtrack in 2002.
Also, BBMak covered the song "Do You Believe in Magic" for Disney's Peter Pan Sequel, Return to Neverland.
. The album reached #25 on the Billboard 200
. The first single from it, "Out of My Heart (Into Your Head)," peaked at #56 on the Hot 100 chart and #25 on the Adult Contemporary chart. In 2003, their next single "Staring Into Space" was released in select countries.
careers. After resting for a short while, McNally began to write songs about his experiences, passions and where he is in life now, while Burns formed a new band called Inhaler, now renamed to The Bleach Works. Burns has worked with DJ Tiësto and he released the single "In the Dark" featuring Burns.
On 15 September 2007, McNally auditioned on the fourth season of The X Factor
. He was successful in making it through to the next round, "Boot Camp". He later joined the band 10 Reasons to Live, as lead singer and occasional guitar player.
Barry is writing with his new band, Fresno, and recording demos and writing songs as a solo artist. He currently works as a personal trainer in Bolton, Lancashire.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
group consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns
Christian Burns
Christian Burns is an English musician and the son of Tony Burns of "The Signs", a Liverpool-based rock band signed to Decca Records in the 1960s.-Career:...
and Stephen McNally
Ste McNally
Stephen McNally is an English singer and songwriter.-Biography:McNally was a member of English pop group, BBMak, along with Mark Barry and Christian Burns. Together they sold nearly three million albums worldwide...
. Together they sold nearly three million album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
s and spawned two Top 10 and Top 40 singles
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
worldwide between 1999 when the group was formed and 2003 when they eventually disbanded. The band also guest starred on Disney's television show, Even Stevens
Even Stevens
Even Stevens is an American comedy television series that aired on Disney Channel with a total of three seasons and 65 episodes from June 17, 2000, to June 2, 2003...
in 2001.
Sooner or Later
In 1999, when the group's debut single "Back HereBack Here
"Back Here" is the title of a popular song by the British pop music trio BBMak. The song was written by the three members of the group along with songwriter Phil Thornalley...
" was released, it barely made it into the Top 40 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. BBMak's debut album, Sooner or Later, was released in 2000 and sold over one million copies, giving the re-release of "Back Here" to gain more publicity and the single eventually climbed to #5 on the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
, #13 on the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
chart
Record chart
A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
and #1 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...
. The band's next single, "Still On Your Side," reached #8 in the UK and #54 in the US. BBMak closed that year with sold out concert
Concert
A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...
s and a live performance on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
in Times Square
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets...
on New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is observed annually on December 31, the final day of any given year in the Gregorian calendar. In modern societies, New Year's Eve is often celebrated at social gatherings, during which participants dance, eat, consume alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the...
. In 2001 BBMak released a DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
called Sooner Or Later: Our First Year in America and their third single "Ghost of You and Me" peaked at #8 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart.
Soundtrack appearances
In July 2001, BBMak had the track "Miss You More" featured on the soundtrackSoundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
to The Princess Diaries
The Princess Diaries (film)
The Princess Diaries is a 2001 comedy film produced by singer and actress Whitney Houston and directed by Garry Marshall. It is based on Meg Cabot's 2000 novel of the same name...
.
Later that year in October, Christian Burns' vocals were featured along with those of 'N Sync
'N Sync
N Sync was an American boy band formed in Orlando, Florida, in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich, *NSYNC consisted of JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick...
's Lance Bass
Lance Bass
James Lance Bass , best known as Lance Bass, is an American pop singer, dancer, actor, film and television producer, and author. He grew up in Mississippi and rose to fame as the bass singer for the American pop boy band 'N Sync. 'N Sync's success led Bass to work in film and television...
and Joey Fatone
Joey Fatone
Joseph Anthony "Joey" Fatone, Jr. is an American singer, dancer, actor and television personality. He is best known as a member of the boyband, 'N Sync, in which he sang baritone. In 2007, he came in second place on the ABC reality show Dancing with the Stars...
, Mandy Moore
Mandy Moore
Amanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore is an American singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer. Moore became famous as a teenager in the late 1990s, after the release of her teen pop albums So Real, I Wanna Be with You, and Mandy Moore. In 2007, she took an adult pop-folk direction with the release of...
and True Vibe
True Vibe
True Vibe was a CCM group that was active from 1999-2003. composed of members Jonathan Lippmann, Nathan Gaddis, Jason Barton, and Jordan Roe, was born out of Lippmann's desire to pursue musical excellence without watering down his Christian faith....
on the single "On The Line" for the film of the same name.
The song "Don't Look Down" was also featured on the soundtrack to On The Line.
The "Out of Reach" track from the album Into Your Head
Into Your Head
Into Your Head is the second album from British music group BBMak. Not to be confused with the popular online of the same name, The album peaked at #25 in the US, spawning the hit single "Out of My Heart"...
appeared in one of the episodes of the Lizzie McGuire
Lizzie McGuire
Lizzie McGuire is an American teen sitcom which premiered on the Disney Channel on January 12, 2001 and ended February 14, 2004. A total of 65 episodes were produced and aired. Its target demographic was preteens and adolescents...
hit TV series season 2.
The band contributed a song titled "Always Know Where You Are" to Disney's "Treasure Planet
Treasure Planet
Treasure Planet is a 2002 animated science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002...
" soundtrack in 2002.
Also, BBMak covered the song "Do You Believe in Magic" for Disney's Peter Pan Sequel, Return to Neverland.
Into Your Head
In August 2002, BBMak released their second album titled Into Your Head, which reintroduced the group with a "nu-breed" sound with more emphasis on harmoniesHarmony
In music, harmony is the use of simultaneous pitches , or chords. The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chord progressions and the principles of connection that govern them. Harmony is often said to refer to the "vertical" aspect of music, as distinguished from melodic...
. The album reached #25 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
. The first single from it, "Out of My Heart (Into Your Head)," peaked at #56 on the Hot 100 chart and #25 on the Adult Contemporary chart. In 2003, their next single "Staring Into Space" was released in select countries.
Solo careers
BBMak broke up in 2003, after having released two full-length studio albums with a total of six singles as well as three live DVDs, reaching close to three million records sold. Afterwards, Barry, Burns and McNally all went on to pursue soloSolo (music)
In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...
careers. After resting for a short while, McNally began to write songs about his experiences, passions and where he is in life now, while Burns formed a new band called Inhaler, now renamed to The Bleach Works. Burns has worked with DJ Tiësto and he released the single "In the Dark" featuring Burns.
On 15 September 2007, McNally auditioned on the fourth season of The X Factor
The X Factor (UK)
The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. Created by Simon Cowell, it began in September 2004 and is contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X Factor franchise. The seven series of the show to date...
. He was successful in making it through to the next round, "Boot Camp". He later joined the band 10 Reasons to Live, as lead singer and occasional guitar player.
Barry is writing with his new band, Fresno, and recording demos and writing songs as a solo artist. He currently works as a personal trainer in Bolton, Lancashire.
Personnel
- Mark Barry: vocals, and sometimes other musical instruments, including the bagpipesBagpipesBagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...
, and hurdy gurdyHurdy gurdyThe hurdy gurdy or hurdy-gurdy is a stringed musical instrument that produces sound by a crank-turned rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to a violin...
- born Mark Anthony Luke Barry, 26 October 1978, Salford. - Christian BurnsChristian BurnsChristian Burns is an English musician and the son of Tony Burns of "The Signs", a Liverpool-based rock band signed to Decca Records in the 1960s.-Career:...
: acoustic guitar and vocals - born Christian Anthony Burns, 18 January 1974, WiganWiganWigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It stands on the River Douglas, south-west of Bolton, north of Warrington and west-northwest of Manchester. Wigan is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town of Wigan had a total...
. - Stephen McNally: electric guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
and vocals - born Stephen Patrick McNally, 4 July 1978, LiverpoolLiverpoolLiverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
.
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales threshold) |
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| UK UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
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| Sooner or Later |
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16 | 38 |
Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States... : Gold |
| Into Your Head Into Your Head Into Your Head is the second album from British music group BBMak. Not to be confused with the popular online of the same name, The album peaked at #25 in the US, spawning the hit single "Out of My Heart"... |
Hollywood Records Hollywood Records is an American record label owned by Disney Music Group, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company.-History:Hollywood Records was founded in 1989 by then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner with the idea of expanding the music operations of the company and to develop and promote... |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
CAN Canadian Singles Chart The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays.... |
IRE Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured... |
NZ |
US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US AC |
US Adult Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks Adult Top 40 is a variation on the United States Billboard charts... |
US Pop Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs) The Mainstream Top 40 is an airplay chart from Billboard magazine, and is also known as Pop Songs on billboard.com. It was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay chart... |
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| 2000 | "Back Here Back Here "Back Here" is the title of a popular song by the British pop music trio BBMak. The song was written by the three members of the group along with songwriter Phil Thornalley... " |
5 | — | 27 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 8 | Sooner or Later | ||||
| 2001 | "Still On Your Side" | 8 | — | 30 | — | 54 | — | 40 | 14 | |||||
| "Ghost of You and Me" | — | — | — | — | — | 8 | — | 28 | ||||||
| "Love Is Leaving" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 2002 | "Out of My Heart (Into Your Head)" | 36 | 22 | — | 19 | 56 | 25 | 23 | 20 | Into Your Head | ||||
| 2003 | "Staring Into Space" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||||||||
Music videos
- "Back HereBack Here"Back Here" is the title of a popular song by the British pop music trio BBMak. The song was written by the three members of the group along with songwriter Phil Thornalley...
" *UK version Directed by Dani JacobsDani Jacobs-Background:Jacobs was born in London. He went to University of Manchester to study Physics but left to pursue his interests in Film.He worked at the The Haçienda nightclub as a resident filmmaker and VJ, creating visuals and lighting effects to project in the club space... - "Back HereBack Here"Back Here" is the title of a popular song by the British pop music trio BBMak. The song was written by the three members of the group along with songwriter Phil Thornalley...
" *US version Directed by Dani JacobsDani Jacobs-Background:Jacobs was born in London. He went to University of Manchester to study Physics but left to pursue his interests in Film.He worked at the The Haçienda nightclub as a resident filmmaker and VJ, creating visuals and lighting effects to project in the club space... - "Ghost Of You And MeGhost of You and Me"Ghost of You and Me" is a 2001 single by the British pop music band BBMak. It appears on BBMak's debut studio album, Sooner or Later. It peaked at #8 on the US Adult Contemporary chart....
" Directed by Nigel DickNigel DickNigel Dick is an English music video and film director, writer and musician based in Los Angeles, California. He directed the Band Aid video "Do They Know It's Christmas?", as well as over 300 other music videos.Nigel Dick should not be confused with the Australian Dr...
DVDs/videos
- 2001 - Music in High Places: Live In Vietnam (DVD/VHS)
- 2001 - Sooner Or Later: Our First Year in America (DVD/VHS)
- 2002 - Out Of My Heart (Into Your Head) (DVD)
External links
- BBMak (Official website)