From One Direction to Hanson: What makes a boy band a boy band?

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Backstreet may not be back, but the boy band trend certainly is, with British group One Direction’s new album debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. But when the Style team was putting together Thursday’s package about the return of the boy band, there was some debate over who would be included in the photo gallery chronicling the genre below.

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