No One Else Comes Close by Backstreet Boys

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 33 · Sections: 15

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Part 1 (0:00)

• Cadd9 – Cmaj7 – C – Am11 – Am7 – F – Fmaj7 – C/G – G
  Iadd9 – Imaj7 – I – vi11 – vi7 – IV – IVmaj7 – I⁶₄ – V

Part 2 (0:09)

• Cadd9 – Cmaj7 – C – Am11 – Amadd9 – Am7 – F – Fmaj7 – F – G – Cadd9 – Am11 – Fmaj7
  Iadd9 – Imaj7 – I – vi11 – viadd9 – vi7 – IV – IVmaj7 – IV – V – Iadd9 – vi11 – IVmaj7

Part 3 (0:22)

• G – Am7 – G/B – Cadd9 – Am11 – Fmaj7 – E – Am/E – E – Am – E/G♯
  V – vi7 – V⁶ – Iadd9 – vi11 – IVmaj7 – III – vi⁶₄ – III – vi – III⁶

Part 4 (0:37)

• Am7/G – D/F♯ – F – F♯dim – G – C/G – Fmaj7 – G
  vi⁴₂ – II⁶ – IV – #iv° – V – I⁶₄ – IVmaj7 – V

Part 5 (0:55)

• C – G/B – Am7 – G – Fmaj7 – G (×2)
  I – V⁶ – vi7 – V – IVmaj7 – V

Part 6 (1:12)

• C – G/B – Am7 – G – Fmaj7 – G – Am7 – G – Cadd9 – Cmaj7 – C – Am11 – Amadd9 – Am7 – F
  I – V⁶ – vi7 – V – IVmaj7 – V – vi7 – V – Iadd9 – Imaj7 – I – vi11 – viadd9 – vi7 – IV

Part 7 (1:26)

• Fmaj7 – F – C/G – Am7 – G/B – Cadd9 – Cmaj7 – C – Am11 – Am7 – F – Fmaj7 – G – Cadd9
  IVmaj7 – IV – I⁶₄ – vi7 – V⁶ – Iadd9 – Imaj7 – I – vi11 – vi7 – IV – IVmaj7 – V – Iadd9

Part 8 (1:39)

• Am11 – Fmaj7 – G – Am7 – G/B – Cadd9 – Am11 – Fmaj7 – E – Am/E
  vi11 – IVmaj7 – V – vi7 – V⁶ – Iadd9 – vi11 – IVmaj7 – III – vi⁶₄

Part 9 (1:54)

• E – Am – E/G♯ – Am7/G – D/F♯ – F – F♯dim – G – C/G – G
  III – vi – III⁶ – vi⁴₂ – II⁶ – IV – #iv° – V – I⁶₄ – V

Part 10 (2:11)

• Fmaj7 – G – C – G/B – Am7 – G – Fmaj7 – G – C – G/B – Am7
  IVmaj7 – V – I – V⁶ – vi7 – V – IVmaj7 – V – I – V⁶ – vi7

Part 11 (2:27)

• G – Fmaj7 – G – C – G/B – Am7 – G – Fmaj7 – G – A♭7
  V – IVmaj7 – V – I – V⁶ – vi7 – V – IVmaj7 – V – bVI7

Part 12 (2:44)

• G♭maj7 – A♭ – D♭ – A♭/C – B♭m – A♭ – G♭maj7 – A♭ – D♭ – A♭/C – B♭m
  bVmaj7 – bVI – bII – bVI⁶ – bvii – bVI – bVmaj7 – bVI – bII – bVI⁶ – bvii

Part 13 (3:01)

• A♭ – G♭maj7 – A♭ – D♭ – A♭/C – B♭m – A♭ – G♭maj7 – A♭ – D♭/A♭ – A♭/C – D♭add9 – D♭maj7
  bVI – bVmaj7 – bVI – bII – bVI⁶ – bvii – bVI – bVmaj7 – bVI – bII⁶₄ – bVI⁶ – bIIadd9 – bIImaj7

Part 14 (3:17)

• D♭ – B♭m11 – B♭m9 – B♭m7 – G♭maj7 – D♭/A♭ – B♭m7 – G♭/B♭ – D♭add9 – D♭maj7 – D♭ – B♭m11 – B♭m7 – G♭maj7 – Fm7
  bII – bvii11 – bvii9 – bvii7 – bVmaj7 – bII⁶₄ – bvii7 – bV⁶ – bIIadd9 – bIImaj7 – bII – bvii11 – bvii7 – bVmaj7 – iv7

Part 15 (3:30)

• E♭m7 – A♭ – Cadd9
  biii7 – bVI – Iadd9

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• A♭/C (bVI⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Fm7 (iv7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• E acts as V/vi: it resolves to Am/E.
• E/G♯ acts as V/vi: it resolves to Am7/G.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Millennium), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (Millennium), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.