Tell me why… Backstreet Boys never got a No. 1? The vocal act notched a No. 2 smash with “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)” and scored an additional five further top 10s. While their 1999 single “I Want It That Way” spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Radio Songs airplay chart, the track was not released as a commercially available single during the height of its popularity. Thus, the song wasn’t able to go any higher than No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, which then combined only airplay and sales data to determine the week’s most popular songs in the U.S. (Had the group opted to release the single for purchase back in the day, maybe it would have found its “way” to No. 1.)