Boy bands and girl groups
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Order by the year of each group's debut single or album, whichever came first. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Pop groups
Boy bands and girl groups
Order by the year of each group's debut single or album, whichever came first. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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release years and dates
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How to play the boy bands and girl groups timeline game
Every card is a pop group, boy band or girl group, and you sort them by the year of each act's debut single or album, whichever came first. Under the name you'll see where the group came from and a quick description. One group is placed to start, with its year shown. Add the rest one by one, each into the gap you choose. Right answers reveal the debut year; wrong ones move the group to its real spot and take a life. You have three, and if you place ten in a row correctly, a lost life comes back.
The lineup runs from early vocal groups and Motown through teen idols and harmony groups to the TV talent show era and the K-pop wave. Many groups arrived in clusters, with acts from the same country or label following each other within a year or two, so the middle of the line is packed. The origin line helps you split American, British and Irish acts. Remember that the date is a debut, not a peak: some groups took years to break through, while others hit the charts with their first single.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- The Shirelles USA, New Jersey vocal quartet
- The Supremes USA, Motown trio from Detroit
- The Jackson 5 USA, brothers from Gary, Indiana
- Menudo Puerto Rico, ever-rotating teen lineup
- Bananarama UK, London trio
- New Kids on the Block USA, Boston five-piece
- Wilson Phillips USA, daughters of pop royalty
- Boyz II Men USA, Philadelphia harmony group
- Take That UK, Manchester five-piece
- TLC USA, Atlanta R&B trio
- East 17 UK, Walthamstow four-piece
- Boyzone Ireland, Dublin five-piece
- Spice Girls UK, girl power quintet
- NSYNC USA, Orlando, Justin Timberlake's group
- 98 Degrees USA, Ohio, the Lachey brothers' group
- Westlife Ireland, Sligo ballad group
- S Club 7 UK, pop group with its own TV sitcom
- Blue UK, R&B-tinged four-piece
- Girls Aloud UK and Ireland, formed on Popstars: The Rivals
- The Pussycat Dolls USA, burlesque troupe turned pop group
- Jonas Brothers USA, New Jersey brothers
- The Saturdays UK and Ireland, girl five-piece
- Big Time Rush USA, Nickelodeon TV band
- The Wanted UK and Ireland, boy five-piece
- Little Mix UK, won The X Factor
- Fifth Harmony USA, formed on The X Factor
- Blackpink South Korea, YG Entertainment quartet
- CNCO Latin pop quintet, formed on La Banda
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