The group, whose 2000 album Black & Blue shifted a staggering 5.4 million copies in the US, will be thrown back into the limelight currently occupied by, um, Blue. And some other super-bland pretty boys. Meh...

Howie Dorough, one-fifth of the awesome five, spoke to Billboard about the pressures of being back in the public eye:

"That's the first thing we thought about when we started making the record. That's why we said we weren't going to give ourselves a time limit. We wanted to make sure this album would give us a shot again to be around for the long haul so people will realize that we're not, hopefully, a flash in the pan in their eyes. The music has matured. It's a little more stripped down, a little more organic. There's not necessarily five-part harmony on everything you hear."

At the last count, Blue's Greatest Hits had shifted eight copies in Bangor, and seventeen in Falmouth. Cornish suckers...