NSYNC
NSYNC, an American pop vocal group from Orlando, Florida, sold more than one million copies of a single album in one day in the year 2000. By the end of that week the total reached 2.4 million, a record that stood for more than fifteen years. Five young men had gone from rehearsing in a house in Orlando to filling radio, television and stadiums. Their story also includes federal lawsuits, a name with a hidden joke, and a silence that nobody planned. How did a group started by a Universal Studios worker sell more than 70 million records and become one of the best-selling boy bands of all time? Why did a group at its commercial peak stop touring together after 2002? And why did the word reunion keep returning for years afterward?
In 1995, Chris Kirkpatrick was working at Universal Studios and singing in a doo-wop group called the Hollywood Hi-Tones. A mutual friend introduced him to Lou Pearlman, the man who had created the Backstreet Boys. Kirkpatrick had missed the auditions for that earlier group because he never heard about them. Pearlman liked what he saw onstage and offered to finance a new vocal group, if Kirkpatrick could find the singers. The search took him more than a year.
A talent agent pointed Kirkpatrick toward Justin Timberlake, who had appeared on The All New Mickey Mouse Club alongside JC Chasez. Chasez had tried a solo career in Los Angeles and left feeling cheated. Driving home to Maryland, he stopped at Timberlake's house in Memphis, Tennessee, and the two wrote demos together. Both later moved to Nashville and kept writing with Robin Wiley, a songwriter and vocal coach from the television show. When Kirkpatrick phoned, Timberlake agreed to join and recommended Chasez, who was back in Maryland saving money to return to Nashville.
The three traveled to Orlando to look for a baritone and found Joey Fatone. He knew Kirkpatrick from their days at Universal Studios Florida. He also knew Timberlake and Chasez through shared friends from the Mickey Mouse Club years. A bass singer was still missing. Charles Edward, who had been fired after a short time with the Backstreet Boys, tried the part but soon left to get married. Jason Galasso then took the role.
The name came from Lynn, Timberlake's mother, who remarked that the voices sounded "in sync." It also works as a puzzle. Each original member contributed the last letter of his first name: Justin, Chris, Joey, Jason and JC.
After several weeks of rehearsal, the group arranged a showcase and prepared to sign with Pearlman's Trans Continental Label. At the last minute, Galasso dropped out. He disliked the musical direction and said that being a teen idol had never been his goal. He asked his lawyer to compare the NSYNC contract with one offered by an R&B project called Unreal. The lawyer judged Unreal's deal to be industry standard and Pearlman's to be too big and too tangled. Galasso joined Unreal, and that project never gained traction.
Still needing a bass, Timberlake called his vocal coach. The coach suggested a 16-year-old from Mississippi named Lance Bass. Bass flew to Orlando, auditioned and was accepted at once. The others nicknamed him "Lansten," which let the group keep its name intact. Pearlman then put all five in a house in Orlando, where they rehearsed constantly for a first public show at Pleasure Island on the 22nd of October 1995.
Johnny Wright, who also managed the Backstreet Boys, was hired by Pearlman to handle the new group. NSYNC sent him a four-song demo tape that included "I'll Be Back for More" and "We Can Work It Out." Wright was impressed, and the group then performed for him and a room of BMG executives. The record company worried about the band's name and about Lance Bass's dancing, which later improved. It signed them to BMG Ariola Munich anyway.
The first album was made in Sweden with the producers Denniz Pop, Max Martin and Andreas Carlsson. Its lead single, "I Want You Back," came out in Germany on the 7th of October 1996. By the 18th of November it had entered the German Top 10. The group toured German-speaking countries first, then moved on to other parts of Europe and Asia.
The album NSYNC reached German stores on the 26th of May 1997 and hit number 1 in its second week. Sales across Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Eastern Europe came to 820,000 units. "Tearin' Up My Heart" and "Here We Go" both reached the Top 10 in numerous European countries. Two Germany-only singles followed, "For the Girl Who Has Everything" and "Together Again."
Vincent DeGiorgio, an A&R representative for RCA Records, watched the group perform in Budapest and signed them to RCA. The American label had them record new tracks to suit the U.S. market. Their American debut single, "I Want You Back," appeared on the 29th of December 1997 and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. The U.S. album 'N Sync followed on the 24th of March 1998 and opened at number 82 on the Billboard 200.
The Disney Channel aired a concert special on the 18th of July 1998. It had first been offered to the Backstreet Boys, who had to decline because Brian Littrell needed heart surgery. Five weeks before the broadcast, the album sat at number 82. Three weeks after it, the album stood at number 9. A re-released "Tearin' Up My Heart" became a pop radio hit, and VH1 later counted it among the 100 greatest songs of the 90s. An opening slot on Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope Tour and a spot on Sabrina the Teenage Witch kept the momentum going. The album eventually earned a diamond certification for shipments above 10 million units.
On the 10th of November 1998, the group released a holiday album, Home for Christmas. It peaked at number 7 and sold two million copies. That gave NSYNC two albums in the Billboard Top 10 at the same time, a rare feat. In February 1999, "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You" peaked at number 8, their first Hot 100 top ten. The country group Alabama later re-recorded it with NSYNC singing alongside them.
Phil Collins joined them for "Trashin' the Camp," which appears on the soundtrack of Disney's Tarzan. They also recorded "Somewhere, Someday" for Pokémon: The First Movie. In September 1999, they teamed with Gloria Estefan on "Music of My Heart" for her film Music of the Heart. It reached number 2 on the Hot 100 and filled the gap between albums.
At the 1999 MTV Movie & TV Awards, all five members starred in Armagedd'NSync, a spoof of the 1998 disaster film Armageddon. The threat was an earthbound asteroid shaped like an asterisk, a joke on the asterisk they then wore in their name. Clint Howard and Lisa Kudrow appeared too. Behind the jokes, the group was already preparing to take its own manager to court.
In 1999, NSYNC sued Lou Pearlman and his company, Trans Continental, over what the members saw as illicit business practices. They claimed they had been defrauded of more than fifty percent of their earnings. The deal had supposedly given Pearlman only a one-sixth share of the profits, just as with the Backstreet Boys.
The group threatened to leave and sign with Jive Records. That prompted Pearlman and RCA to countersue for US$150 million. Trans Continental and RCA's parent company, BMG Entertainment, took the case to federal court. They wanted to block the move to Jive and stop the band from performing or recording under the name NSYNC. They also wanted the masters recorded that year for the second album returned. That album had been planned for the fall and was pushed to early 2000. The suit further accused Jive executives of inducing the group to break its Trans Continental contract.
Pearlman's request for a preliminary injunction against the band was denied. In December 1999, the two sides reached an undisclosed settlement out of court. NSYNC was free to release future albums on Jive Records, and the first single for that new label arrived the following month.
In January 2000, NSYNC released "Bye Bye Bye," an upbeat dance track that shot into the Hot 100 Top 10. It spent five weeks atop the Hot 100 Airplay chart and is often considered the group's signature song. The album it introduced, No Strings Attached, arrived on the 21st of March 2000. By the end of that year it had sold more than 9.9 million copies, making it the best-selling album of 2000. In the United States, only the Beatles' 1 outsold it among albums of that decade. It later earned a Diamond certification from the RIAA for sales above 11,099,000, and it was the best pre-ordered album in Amazon.com history.
The second single, "It's Gonna Be Me," became their first American number 1. It held the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 from the 29th of July to the 11th of August 2000. The third single, "This I Promise You," reached the top five. A Spanish version, "Yo Te Voy a Amar," was performed at the Latin Grammys in 2001.
The No Strings Attached Tour was documented by an MTV special called Making the Tour, later released on DVD. An HBO special of the tour aired the same week "It's Gonna Be Me" reached number 1, and it became the home video Live From Madison Square Garden. A second leg followed in the fall, and the group played one last show in 2001 at the Rock in Rio concert.
NSYNC co-headlined the Super Bowl XXXV halftime show with Aerosmith. It was titled "The Kings of Rock and Pop" and included Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige and Nelly. The group also performed at the ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
The fourth album, Celebrity, came out on the 24th of July 2001. It produced three singles: "Pop" at number 19 in the US, "Gone" at number 11 and "Girlfriend" at number 5. This time the members wrote and produced several of their own tracks. It sold 1,879,955 copies in its first week, the second-fastest start in SoundScan history at that point. Only No Strings Attached had done better. The Billboard Music Awards created a special prize for the biggest one-week sales of 2001.
The four-month stadium PopOdyssey Tour earned over $90 million, one of the biggest tours of 2001. The Celebrity Tour in 2002 earned nearly $30 million. After that tour ended, the group went quiet.
After the 2002 tour, the group went on an indefinite hiatus, partly at the suggestion of Timberlake, who wanted to record a solo album. It was meant to be temporary, yet NSYNC never toured together again. Timberlake later explained his thinking: "It started as a fun snowball fight that was becoming an avalanche." He added that he cared more about the music than some of his bandmates did and felt he needed to follow his heart.
Joey Fatone, Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick remember it differently. They say a lack of openness left them unprepared for a breakup. In a 2019 interview on The Jenny McCarthy Show, Fatone said the group believed it would reunite because they were young and "didn't know better at first." He told his bandmates he was fine with everyone going solo, as long as they would "just let us know next time." Meanwhile he sat waiting, then went to Broadway, where he appeared in Rent and Little Shop of Horrors.
In September 2004, Bass told the Fox News columnist Roger Friedman that new music depended on whether Justin wanted to make it, and he did not. Years later, promoting his memoir, Bass told the Orlando Sentinel that the group was "definitely broken up" rather than on hiatus. On Michael Rosenbaum's Inside of You podcast, he said there were no bad feelings between the members. His real disappointment was that the label and management knew it was over for three years, in his words: "They all knew it was over for three years before they told me." Bass says he turned down a sitcom and other projects because his first commitment was to the band.
In the Paramount+ documentary Larger Than Life: Reign of the Boybands, Kirkpatrick called the hiatus "hard." He recalled "a lot of animosity," "anger" and "resentment," and wondered whether the group would ever reunite. Bass said the record label told them to come back in six months to begin the next album. "It just never happened," he said.
The members still appeared together now and then. At the 45th Annual Grammy Awards, they sang a televised Bee Gees medley as a tribute to that band. A new album was slated to begin in the fall of 2003 but never materialized. They sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 2004 NSYNC Challenge for the Children.
According to Bass's 2007 memoir Out of Sync, a meeting in the summer of 2004 was held to discuss the band's future, and Timberlake announced he was leaving. In 2005 the group regrouped for the last Challenge for the Children but did not perform. That fall, a greatest hits album appeared with one song, "I'll Never Stop," that had not been released in the US. In 2007, while promoting Out of Sync, Bass confirmed the breakup to the press.
In January 2010, the band released The Collection, an album of singles that had only come out in the UK. On the 25th of August 2013, all five members regrouped at the MTV Video Music Awards. They performed a medley of "Girlfriend" and "Bye Bye Bye" during a 15-minute set by Timberlake, just before he accepted the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. Afterward, Bass said there were no plans for a tour or new music.
On the 29th of July 2014, a compilation of hits and unreleased songs called The Essential *NSYNC appeared. Bass said on his radio show Dirty Pop that he had never heard many of the songs, though he remembered recording them. Chasez joked on Twitter that he'd had a strange dream about a top 10 record on iTunes. Kirkpatrick said he was glad long-time fans were getting songs that had never made a record. Fatone and Kirkpatrick also starred in Dead 7, a western zombie film written by the Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter. It premiered on the Syfy channel on the 1st of April 2016.
On the 30th of April 2018, the group reunited to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and all five appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. That month, a free, limited-run shop called Dirty Pop-Up opened on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. On the 14th of April 2019, Chasez, Fatone, Bass and Kirkpatrick joined Ariana Grande's headlining set at Coachella. They performed "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored," "It Makes Me Ill" and "Tearin' Up My Heart." Timberlake could not attend because he had finished his Man of the Woods Tour the night before. On the 19th of April 2021, Bass, Fatone and Kirkpatrick appeared in a Progressive Insurance commercial known as "The 3/5ths of NSYNC."
On the 12th of September 2023, after weeks of teasers and speculation, all five members presented the Best Pop Award at the MTV Video Music Awards. Two days later, it was confirmed that they had recorded "Better Place" for the DreamWorks Animation film Trolls Band Together. The song was released on the 29th of September 2023. It reached number 1 on the US and Canadian iTunes charts and number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. The group also appeared on the YouTube talk show Hot Ones. Fatone said that, depending on the song's success and Timberlake's involvement, a new album might come within two years.
On the 13th of March 2024, NSYNC played together for the first time since the 2013 awards show, at Timberlake's One Night Only concert at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. They sang "Girlfriend," "Bye Bye Bye" and "It's Gonna Be Me," and debuted a new song, "Paradise." It was released two days later on Timberlake's sixth studio album, Everything I Thought It Was. That same year, "Bye Bye Bye" surged again after appearing in the Marvel film Deadpool & Wolverine.
In November 2024, Chasez said on a podcast that everyone was busy with different projects. He added that the members were always talking in the background and that "it only takes like one idea to pop, so anything's possible."
The debut album NSYNC brought four-on-the-floor Europop beats to its midtempo singles "I Want You Back" and "Tearin' Up My Heart." Critics heard a production style close to Ace of Base. No Strings Attached was described as an incremental step away from teen pop's softer side. It featured ballads by the 80s adult contemporary singer Richard Marx and the prolific songwriter Diane Warren. It blended new jack swing revivalism, uptempo R&B and hip-hop influences. The kiss-off message of "Bye Bye Bye" moved the group away from the lovesick formula of their debut, and Celebrity added electronica to a pop and R&B mix.
The members licensed their likenesses for board games, microphones, lip balm, marionettes, books, key chains, bedding, clothing and video games. In 2002, a wax figure of each member was unveiled at Madame Tussauds New York, with all five present. A McDonald's deal brought commercials with Britney Spears, plus a CD and a video of behind-the-scenes footage. Chili's Grill & Bar made commercials with the group and helped sponsor a tour. In 2001, Infogrames released a Game Boy Color game, *NSYNC: Get to the Show.
Entertainment Weekly ranked NSYNC the best boy band of the 1990s and 2000s. Billboard named No Strings Attached the top album of the 2000s decade. It also placed the group fourth on its list of the biggest boy bands from 1987-2012 by chart performance. The staff wrote that NSYNC had one of the most short-lived boy band careers yet was arguably the most famous. Writing for the album's 20th anniversary, NPR's Maria Sherman called it "the sound of a new millennium." She described the group as one of the last artists to benefit from an industry bubble before it burst. Billboard noted that before No Strings Attached, none of the major teen pop albums of the era had featured guest rappers or name R&B producers, and nearly all that followed did.
Stereogum noted that the group was deeply ingrained in the TRL universe, the MTV fan-voted video countdown. NSYNC had the most number-one videos there for a group and the second-most overall. Consequence observed that Timberlake's solo success was the exception, since other boy bands of the time failed to produce a solo star. Kelsea Ballerini, Selena Gomez, Meghan Trainor and Why Don't We have cited the group as an influence. Hayley Williams has said she learned harmonies by listening to them as a teenager. When Taylor Swift accepted the Best Pop Award from the group at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, she called them "pop personified."
The group has been nominated for nine Grammy Awards. It has won three American Music Awards, five Billboard Music Awards and seven MTV Video Music Awards. Its second album stands as the fifth-fastest-selling album worldwide. At the 2025 Grammy Awards, "Better Place" earned a nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media, a tenth Grammy mention for a group that had not toured together in over two decades.
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How did NSYNC get its name?
Justin Timberlake's mother, Lynn, remarked that the group's voices sounded "in sync." The name also uses the last letter of each original member's first name: Justin, Chris, Joey, Jason and JC.
Who was the original bass singer, and why did he leave?
Jason Galasso was the original bass singer. He dropped out at the last minute, saying that being a teen idol was never his goal. His lawyer also judged Lou Pearlman's contract to be far too large and overly complicated. Lance Bass replaced him.
Why did NSYNC sue Lou Pearlman?
In 1999 the group claimed Pearlman and his company Trans Continental had defrauded them of more than fifty percent of their earnings. Pearlman and RCA countersued for US$150 million. The two sides reached an undisclosed settlement in December 1999.
What was the group's first number 1 single in the United States?
"It's Gonna Be Me" reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, holding the top spot from the 29th of July to the 11th of August 2000.
Has NSYNC reunited since the hiatus?
Yes, several times. Appearances include the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2018, a Coachella set with Ariana Grande in 2019, the single "Better Place" in 2023, and a performance at Justin Timberlake's 2024 concert in Los Angeles.
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