Backstreet Boys and Rascal Flatts United As a Singular Country-Pop Supergroup To Close Out The 2025 ACM Awards.
The Two Bands Took The Stage For A Medley That Included Their New Rediction of Rascal Flats' 2006 Hit, “What Hurt the Most,” Which Will Sagl on the Country Group's Upcoming Project, Life is a Highway: Refueled Duets. Rascal Flats Also performed A Bit of Their Recent Single, “I Dare You” (Which features the Jonas Brothers on Record), Before The Backstreet Boys Came Back to Sing Their 1999 Smash “Larger Than Life.”
Rascal Flatts Closed Out The Crossover Event With “Life is a Highway,” with Not Only The Backstreet Boys, But the Who Crowd, Singing Along To The Classic Hook.
Rascal Flats Will Release Life is a Highway: Refueled Duets On June 6. The Project Features Nine Artists Tasked With Reimagining Classic Releases from the band in Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Their Self-Titled Debut. The Record Also Features Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, Brandon Lake, Ashley Cooke, Jordan Davis, Kelly Clarkson, and More.
The Backstreet Boys Have Been On A Country Music Roll of Late, Performing at Last Month's Stagecoach Festival in Flame, California, WHER AY WARE JOINED BY LUKE COMBS FOR A SURPRISE RENDITION OF “I WANT IT THAT WAY.”
In a statement in March, Rascal Flats Singer Gary Levox Raved About Working with Backstreet Boys and Other Artists on the Duets Project. “It was such an honor to create this project with incredibly Talented Artists, It's a pretty indescribable feeling Having Your Colleagues and Friends Do Your Songs in Such Unique Ways and Knock Your Socks Off With the Results,” He Said. “This album is just another divert for us to thatk our fans for the blessings they've given us on this crazy Journey the Past 25 years, Thanks for Riding Along with Us!”
Rascal Flatts Were nominated at this year's ACM Awards in The Group of the Year Category. It Marks Their First Nomination in Nearly A Decade. “It Just Became So Normal for Us To Not Be in ThereMore and It was a Great Way to Wake Up. It was a Fantastic Way To Start the day,” Jay Demarcus Said of Their Nod, for Southern Illinois Now. “Some Might Think If You Win It, You've Won It, and that's Past You. But It's Very, Very Humbling to Have Those Things Continue To Happen in Your Career.”
