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Big Time Rush is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Benjamin Diamond, Stardust, Mike Posner, Kevin Rudolf and Song 2. Those roots explain a lot about how Big Time Rush arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as R5, Victorious Cast, Sterling Knight, Katelyn Tarver and Jonas Brothers, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Backstreet Boys, Ellie Goulding, One Direction, The Wanted and NSYNC, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Big Time Rush, reaching back through Benjamin Diamond and forward to Backstreet Boys. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Big Time Rush is an American pop music boy band formed in 2009. The group is composed of Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Logan Henderson, and Carlos PenaVega. They initially signed with Nick Records in 2009 and then transferred to Columbia Records. The group starred as a fictional version of themselves in Nickelodeon's television series of the same name. The show ran from November 28, 2009, to July 25, 2013. The pilot episode featured the group's first promotional single, "Big Time Rush". The group has released four studio albums: BTR in 2010, Elevate in 2011, 24/Seven in 2013, and Another Life in 2023. The band went on hiatus in 2014, which lasted until 2021 when the group resumed live performances and released the single "Call It Like I See It".
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Big Time Rush connections
Big Time Rush grew out of Benjamin Diamond, Stardust, Mike Posner and Kevin Rudolf, shares an orbit with R5, Victorious Cast, Sterling Knight and Katelyn Tarver, went on to shape Backstreet Boys, Ellie Goulding, One Direction and The Wanted. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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