Never Gone

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Never Gone is the follow-up album to the Backstreet Boys' 2000 studio release Black & Blue. Originally to be released in 2004, the release date was pushed back to June 14, 2005 for unknown reasons.

The album's first single is "Incomplete", and is followed by "Just Want You To Know". The third single worldwide is "I Still...". Other songs are "Weird World", "Beautiful Woman" and "Climbing The Walls". Never Gone has been certified as a platinum record in the U.S. It sold 293,000 copies during its first week of availability, and debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200. In Japan, it sold 528,000 copies and was second biggest western artist's album for 2005

Never Gone was also released as a DualDisc. The DualDisc version features the music video for "Incomplete" and a short documentary showing the making of the video. It was also released in a CD and DVD double-disc edition.

This is the final album that former member Kevin Richardson had involvement in, as one year after this album came out, he left to pursue other interests.

The Never Gone Tour commenced soon after the album's release.

On December 20, 2005 they released Never Gone "The Videos" which included behind the scenes footage of "Incomplete" and the video, along with "Just Want You To Know" (the behind the scenes, the original video, and the Sphyntker version), and their newest single "I Still", including comments from the Backstreet Boys from the set and video. The DVD also includes a slideshow with the music of "Just Want You To Know" and an interview in Germany about their upcoming tour.

Track listing

#	Title	Songwriters
1.	"Incomplete"	Dan Muckala, Jess Cates, Lindy Robbins	3:59
2.	"Just Want You to Know"	Max Martin, Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald	3:53
3.	"Crawling Back to You"	Blair Daly, Chris Farren	3:43
4.	"Weird World"	John Ondrasik	4:12
5.	"I Still..."	Max Martin, Rami	3:49
6.	"Poster Girl"	Billymann, Rasmus Bähncke, René Tromborg	3:56
7.	"Lose It All"	Alexander Barry, Shelly Peiken, Wally Gagel	4:04
8.	"Climbing the Walls"	Max Martin, Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald	3:42
9.	"My Beautiful Woman"	Paul L. Wiltshire, Victoria Wu	3:38
10.	"Safest Place to Hide"	Robin Lerner, Tom Leonard	4:40
11.	"Siberia"	Max Martin, Alexandra Talomaa, Rami	4:16
12.	"Never Gone"	Gary Baker, Kevin Richardson, Steve Diamond	3:46

Bonus Tracks: 13. Song For The Unloved 14. Rush Over Me

#	Title (Cut Tracks)	Songwriters	Producer(s)	Time
.	"Set It Off"	Neptunes, Dan Muckala	Neptunes	4:19

Credits

• Brent Milligan – Bass
• Jamie Muhoberac – Keyboards
• Shawn Pelton – Drums
• Joe Porter – Drums
• Tim Roberts – Assistant
• Brian Scheuble – Engineer
• Robin Smith – Conductor, String Arrangements
• Ren Swan – Engineer, Mixing
• Frank Wolf – Bass Engineer
• Gavyn Wright – Leader
• Andy Zulla – Mixing
• Serban Ghenea – Mixing
• Dave Dillbeck – Engineer
• Will Malone – Conductor, String Arrangements
• Alex Smith – Assistant
• Backstreet Boys – Vocal Arrangement
• Tom Coyne – Mastering
• John Ondrasik – Executive producer
• John Shanks – Drums, Mixing, Producer
• Christopher Rojas – keyboards, guitars, programmer, arranger, engineer
• Shari Sutcliffe – Production Coordination, Contractor
• Adam Brown – Engineer
• Ken Chastain – Percussion, Fx Vocals
• Max Martin – Guitar, Mixing, Engineer, Producer, Instrumentation
• Jackie Murphy – Art Direction, Design
• F. Reid Shippen – Engineer
• Dan Muckala – Piano, String Arrangements, Engineer, Producer, Keyboards
• Greg Suran – Guitar
• Steven Miller – Mixing, Engineer
• Kevin Richardson– Piano
• Ken Takahashi – Assistant
• Adam Phillips – Guitar
• Keith B. Armstrong – Assistant
• Steve Price – String Engineer
• Pablo Munguia – Engineer, Vocal Engineer
• James Stone – Assistant
• Michael Ilbert – Engineer, Digital Editing
• Gregg Wattenberg – Guitar, Programming, Sequencing, String Arrangements, Producer
• Alan Mason – Assistant Engineer
• Mark Kiczula – Assistant Engineer, Assistant
• Mark Valentine – Engineer
• Skye McCaskey – Engineer
• John Hanes – Digital Editing
• Chris Haggerty – Digital Editing
• Jeff Rothschild – Engineer, Mixing
• Theresa LaBarbera Whites – A&R
• Chris McMurtry – Guitar (Electric)
• Lee Bridges – Assistant Engineer
• Seth Waldmann – Engineer
• Chris Testa – Engineer
• Mark Taylor – Producer, Mixing, String Arrangements, Engineer
• Billymann – Guitar (Acoustic), Arranger, Programming, Guitar (Electric), Vocal Arrangement, Producer
• Steve Lunt – A&R
• Lukasz "Doctor Luke" Gottwald – Producer, Engineer, Instrumentation
• Lana Israel – Production Coordination
• Lasse Mårtén – Drum Engineering
• Aaron Fessel – Assistant Engineer
• David Stamm – A&R
• Johan "Brorsan" Brorsson – Bass, Guitar, Engineer, Producer
• Brian Pugh – Assistant
• Brandon Heath – Guitar (Acoustic)
• Matt Beckley – Assistant Engineer, Assistant
• Anthony Carlucci – Design
• Yuri Elizondo – Photography
• Alex Mifolng – Guitar (Electric)
• Johan Reivén – Drums
• John Silas – Engineer
• René Tromberg – Percussion, Drums
• Paul L. Wiltshire – Arranger, Producer, Engineer
• Victoria Wu – Producer
• Alejandro "Alex" Acuña – Percussion
• Chris Lord-Alge – Mixing
• Tom Lord-Alge – Mixing
• Tommy Barbarella – Keyboards, String Arrangements
• Jerry Barnes – Bass
• Michael Bland – Drums
• Paul Buckmaster – String Arrangements, Sequencing
• Paul Bushnell – Bass
• Vinnie Colaiuta – Drums
• John Fields – Bass, Producer, Fx Vocals, Mixing, Engineer, Keyboards, Piano, Guitar
• Isobel Griffiths – String Contractor
• The London Session Orchestra – Strings