About Matches

"Matches" is a song recorded by American singer Britney Spears and American boy band Backstreet Boys for Spears's ninth studio album, Glory (2016). It was written by Mike Wise, Asia Whiteacre, Justin Tranter, and Ian Kirkpatrick. The track only appears on the deluxe reissue of the album first released on December 4, 2020. It was sent to contemporary hit radio in Italy on December 18, 2020, as the fifth single from Glory.

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. She is credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s, for which she is referred to as the "Princess of Pop". After appearing in stage productions and television series, Spears signed with Jive Records in 1997 at age 15. Her first two studio albums, certified diamond in the US, ...Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!... I Did It Again (2000), were global successes and became two of the best-selling albums of all time, along with making her the best-selling teenage artist of all time. The former's title track was named the greatest debut single of all time by Rolling Stone in 2020 and the latter held a 15-year record for fastest-selling album by a female artist in the United States with first-week sales of over 1.3 million copies.

Backstreet Boys (often abbreviated as BSB) are an American vocal group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993. The group consists of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, AJ McLean, and cousins Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson.