[1] The North American legs featured concerts at arenas and stadiums and it became one of the fastest grossing tours of all time.

[2] Before the tour commenced, the group filmed a Disney Channel concert special on May 11, 1999, from the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City.

The first leg of the North American tour initially sold 53 dates (40 announced and 13 added due to demand)[3] in 39 cities, scheduled to run from September 14–December 2, 1999.

As a result of Hurricane Floyd, which was approaching Florida, the band was forced to postpone the first two tour dates from September 14 and 15 to December 5 and 6.

[12] There was some controversy over the distribution of tickets at the Denver show of the first tour leg by promoter House of Blues Concerts.

It was alleged that House of Blues had reserved a large number of tickets not purchased by season-ticket holders to private brokers, instead of offering them to the public.

The band subsequently requested that House of Blues donate $75,000 to a Columbine High School scholarship fund as compensation for their actions.

The boys would then rise from the curtained enclosure to the Star Wars theme song and ride to the stage on "hovering" surfboards employing wire harnesses.

Initially, this change involved removing the padded vests and wearing dark trench coats over the checkerboard turtlenecks from the space costumes.

The backup dancers performed an extended chair routine and the band played an extended instrumental outro as the boys changed into leather outfits for the next songs "Don't Wanna Lose You Now" and "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)", during which the boys were again hooked up to wire harnesses and flown over the crowd (each to a different side of the audience) during the song's outro.

After another costume change into white outfits and an extended intro, the boys performed an up-tempo medley of "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)", "We've Got It Goin' On" and "That's The Way I Like It".

Finally, they circled the stage to bow to each side of the audience under a blast of confetti and ended the song, and again, ostensibly, the concert.

The Backstreet Boys agreed to a merchandising tie-in with Burger King to exclusively sell a set of three CDs and one VHS cassette featuring songs and videos respectively from the tour.