In 2021, New Edition was signed with Creative Artists Agency, planned a Las Vegas Residency, along side their arena tour. The band was the focus of the mini series “The New Edition Story” in 2015, BET’s first music-focused mini series, bringing 28.4 million viewers to the channel.
Their appearances then continued on the popular television series Family Matters.īobby Brown and Johnny Gill rotated as lead singers the 1990s and early 2000s, and eventually often performed together. In 1996, Brown, Gill and Tresvant worked with Whitney Houston on Something Bigger Than You and I, which was on the soundtrack to the movie The Preacher’s Wife. Their top album, “Home Again”, debuted as number one on the Billboard 200 and the R&B Albums chart, reaching double platinum in the United States. Formed in 1978 by Bobby Brown, New Edition started with 6 members which have departed and returned since their peak popularity in the 1980s.
