  It's hard to believe that Boyz
II Men have only been on the music scene
since 1991. In such a short time the quartet
has sold millions of LPs and have spent 29
weeks at #1 with 6 #1 hits. Boyz II Men
originally hit the music charts under the
guidance of Bell Biv Devoe's
Michael Bivins. Their sound combines the
sounds of the soul from the 60s and 70s with
a touch of New Jack swing and acapella
arrangements. Boyz II Men are: Nathan
"Alex Vanderpool" Morris, Michael
"Bass" McCary, Shawn
"Slim" Stockman, and Wanya
"Squirt" Morris. All 4 hail from
Philadelphia where they formed as a group.
The boys met in 1988 at the High
School of the Creative and Performing Arts,
practicing their harmonies in the bathroom,
and originally calling themselves
"Unique Attraction." They
eventually got their name from a New
Edition song called "Boys To
Men." The band was originally five
members: the fifth member, Mark Nelson,
dropped out to pursue a solo career and is
now with Az
Yet. The boys sang "Can You
Stand The Rain" for Michael Bovines
after they snuck backstage at a Philadelphia
concert, and two months later Bivens offered
to manage the boys.
Boyz II Men signed with Motown
Records.
 # 10
Singles Artist of the Year
 Boyz II Men released their debut
LP, Cooleyhighharmony. The LP was produced
by Dallas Austin and spawned the enormous
hits "Motownphilly" and "It's So Hard To Say
Goodbye To Yesterday." The #1 hit "Motownphilly" introduced the
world to the boys' "hip-hop doo
wop" while the hits "It's So Hard To Say
Goodbye To Yesterday" and "Uhh Ahh" showed how the
group could sing acapella harmonies.
 Boyz II Men hit the Top 40 with
"Motownphilly."
Cooleyhighharmony was certified gold.
Cooleyhighharmony was certified platinum
and the single "Motownphilly" was certified
platinum.
Boyz II Men hit the Top 10 with "Motownphilly."
Boyz II Men hit #1 for a week with "Motownphilly."
Boyz II Men hit the Top 40 with
"It's So Hard To Say
Goodbye To Yesterday."
Cooleyhighharmony was certified 2x
platinum.
Boyz II Men hit the Top 10 with "It's So Hard To Say
Goodbye To Yesterday."
The single "It's So Hard To Say
Goodbye To Yesterday" was certified gold.
 # 1
Singles Artist of the Year (# 1
Group/Duo of the Year)
Cooleyhighharmony was certified 3x
platinum.
Boyz II Men hit the Top 40 with
"Uhh Ahh."
Boyz II Men won
an American Music
Award for Favorite Soul/R&B New Artist and was nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock New Artist, Favorite Soul/R&B
Band/Duo/Group, Favorite Soul/R&B Single ("Motownphilly"), and Favorite Soul/R&B Album (Cooleyhighharmony).
 Boyz II Men won their first Grammy
Award for Best R&B Vocal
Performance by a Duo or Group (Cooleyhighharmony) and were also
nominated for Best New Artist.
Boyz II Men topped the Billboard
R&B Singles chart for 2 weeks with "Uhh Ahh."
Boyz II Men hit the Top 10 with "Uhh Ahh."
Cooleyhighharmony was certified 4x
platinum.
Boyz II Men hit the Top 40 with
"Please Don't Go."
 Boyz II Men had another huge hit
with "End Of The Road," from the Boomerang soundtrack and written
by Babyface. The song spent 7
weeks at #1 on The ARC and became the biggest
single of the year. On the Billboard charts,
the song spent a record setting 13 weeks at
#1, breaking a record held by Elvis Presley.
 Boyz II Men hit the Top 40 with
"End Of The Road."
Boyz II Men hit the Top 10 and #1 for 7 weeks with
"End Of The Road."
Boyz II Men topped the Billboard
Hot 100 for 13 weeks, the Top Singles Sales
chart for 12 weeks, the Top 40 Radio Moniter
chart for 13 weeks, and the Top R&B
Singles chart for 4 weeks with "End Of The Road."
The single "End Of The Road" was certified
platinum.
Boyz II Men hit the Top 40 with
"In The
Still Of The Nite (I'll Remember)" (from The
Jacksons: An American Dream soundtrack).
 Boyz II Men hit the Top 10 with "In The
Still Of The Nite (I'll Remember)."
Cooleyhighharmony was certified 5x
platinum.
 # 65
Singles Artist of the Year
Boyz II Men won
2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Soul/R&B
Band/Duo/Group and Favorite Pop/Rock Single ("End Of The Road").
Boyz II Men began the year with
a singing performance at the MTV Inaugural
Ball in Washington, D.C.
The single "In The
Still Of The Nite (I'll Remember)" was certified
platinum.
Boyz II Men won another Grammy
Award for Best R&B Vocal
Performance by a Duo or Group ("End Of The Road").
Boyz II Men won 3 Soul Train
Music Awards for Best R&B Single ("Please Don't Go"), R&B Song
of the Year, and Best Music Video ("End Of The Road").
The video for "End Of The Road" was nominated
for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best R&B Video.
 Boyz II Men released a Christmas
LP, Christmas
Interpretations.
Christmas
Interpretations was certified platinum.
During the year the boys won 2
Soul Train Music Awards for Best R&B
Performance and Best R&B Song (all for
"End Of The Road") and were
awarded a NAACP Image Award for Best Vocal
Group and a World Music Award for Best Group.
 # 8
Singles Artist of the Year
 Boyz II Men hit the Top 40 with
"Let It Snow."
Boyz II Men were nominated for a
Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal
Performance by a Duo or Group ("Let It Snow").
 Boyz II Men released their
second LP, II, and found even
greater commercial and popular success, but
parted way with Michael Bivens. The LP was
produced by Babyface, Jimmy Jam, and Terry
Lewis and gave the boys 3 more #1 hits:
"I'll Make Love To You (written by Babyface)," "On
Bended Knee," and "Water Runs Dry (also written by Babyface)." They also had
chart success with the tracks "Thank You" and "Vibin'."
Boyz II Men hit the Top 40, the Top 10, and #1 for 5 weeks with
"I'll Make Love To You."
 Boyz II Men topped the Billboard
Hot 100 Singles chart for 14 weeks, the
Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart for 11
weeks, the R&B Singles chart for 9 weeks,
the R&B Singles Sales chart for 8 weeks,
and the R&B Airplay chart for 9 weeks
with "I'll Make Love To You."
 Boyz II Men topped the Billboard
Hot 100 Airplay chart for 12 weeks and the
R&B Albums chart for 2 weeks with "I'll Make Love To You."
II topped the Billboard
Pop Albums chart for 4 weeks.
The single "I'll Make Love To You" was certified
platinum.
Boyz II Men hit the Top 40 with
"On Bended Knee."
 II was certified 3x
platinum.
Boyz II Men hit the Top 10 with "On Bended Knee."
II was certified 5x
platinum.
Boyz II Men hit #1 for 4 weeks with
"On Bended Knee."
Boyz II Men topped the Billboard
Hot 100 Singles chart for 6 weeks, the Hot
100 Airplay chart for 11 weeks, the R&B
Airplay chart for 7 weeks, and the Adult
Contemporary Singles chart for 3 weeks with
"On Bended Knee."
"I'll Make Love To You" went on to be
the #1 single of the year on The ARC Weekly Top 40.
 # 2
Singles Artist of the Year
 Boyz II Men won 3 American Music
Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Single and Favorite Soul/R&B Single ("I'll Make Love To You"), and Favorite Soul/R&B
Band/Duo/Group, and was also nominated for
Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist.
II was certified 7x
platinum and the single "On Bended Knee" was certified
platinum.
Boys II Men hit the Top 40 with
"Water Runs Dry."
 Boyz II Men won 2 Grammy Awards for Best R&B Album (II) and Best R&B Vocal
Performance by a Duo or Group ("I'll Make Love To You"), and was
nominated for Record of the Year ("I'll Make Love To You").
Boyz II Men hit the Top 40 with
"Thank You."
Boyz II Men hit the Top 10 with "Water Runs Dry."
 II was certified 8x
platinum and the single "Water Runs Dry" was certified
gold.
Boyz II Men topped the Billboard
R&B Airplay chart for 5 weeks with "Water Runs Dry."
Boyz II Men hit #1 for 2 weeks with
"Water Runs Dry."
 Boyz II Men hit the Top 40 with
"Vibin'."
The video for "Water Runs Dry" was nominated
for 2 MTV Video Music
Awards for Best R&B Video and Best Cinematography.
Boyz II Men hit the Top 40
helping out Mariah
Carey with "One Sweet Day."
 A collection of remixes
appropriately titled, The
Remix Collection, was released.
Boyz II Men hit the Top 10 with "One Sweet Day."
Cooleyhighharmony was certified 9x
platinum and II was certified 11x
platinum.
Boyz II Men hit #1 for 11 weeks with
"One Sweet Day."
Boyz II Men topped the Billboard
Hot 100 Singles chart for 16 weeks, the
Singles Sales chart for 11 weeks, the Airplay
chart for 13 weeks, the R&B Singles Sales
chart for 4 weeks, the Adult Contemporary
Singles chart for 13 weeks, and the Hot Dance
Music Maxi-Singles Sales chart for 3 weeks
with Mariah
Carey with "One Sweet Day."
II was the 7th
biggest selling LP of the year with sales
topping 3.4 million during 1995.
Boyz II Men won 2 Blockbuster
Entertainment Awards for Favorite CD and
Favorite R&B CD, a Kid's Choice Award for
Best Musical Group, 2 Soul Train Music Awards
for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Album, a World Music Award
for Best Musical Group, and were honored by
VH1 for their work with the Big Brothers
Foundation.
 # 55
Singles Artist of the Year
Boyz II Men teamed up with Mariah
Carey and went on to spend a record
11 weeks at the #1 position with "One Sweet Day" making it the
biggest single of the year on The ARC Weekly Top 40.
 Boyz II Men won an American Music
Award for Favorite Soul/R&B
Band/Duo/Group and were nominated for Favorite
Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group, Favorite Artist of
the Year, Favorite Soul/R&B Album and
Favorite Pop/Rock Album (II).
Boyz II Men hit the Top 40 with
"I Remember."
 Stockman hit the Top 40 solo
with "Visions Of A Sunset" from the
soundtrack for Mr.
Holland's Opus.
Boyz II Men were nominated for a
few Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Pop Collaboration with
Vocals
("One Sweet Day").
Boyz II Men and Sony Music
Entertainment teamed up and formed a new
record label, Stonecreek Recordings of
Philadelphia.
Boyz II Men also tried their
hand at acting, appearing in the TV movie, The
Jacksons: An American Dream. Mike appeared in the
films, How
To Be A Player and Hoodlum.
Boyz II Men also won a NAACP
Image Award for Best Group and the Sammy
Davis, Jr. Award (Entertainer of the Year) at
the Soul Train Music Awards.
II was certified 12x
platinum.
The
Remix Collection was certified
platinum.
The video for "One Sweet Day" was nominated
for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best R&B Video.
Christmas
Interpretations was certified 2x platinum.
 # 41
Singles Artist of the Year
 The Boyz' next LP, Evolution, was released. Tracks
on the LP have been produced by power-houses
Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Babyface, and Puffy
Combs. The LP debuted on the
Billboard LP chart at #1.The second single,
"A Song For Mama" could also be
found on the Soul
Food soundtrack. Shawn told
MTV: "We felt like we were growing as
men... We were growing as people that were
very different from the past endeavors with Cooleyhighharmony and with the album II | 
