From left, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, and Chris Kirkpatrick of *NSYNC communicate onstage the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Heart in September.
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From left, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, and Chris Kirkpatrick of *NSYNC communicate onstage the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Heart in September.
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NSYNC’s first tune collectively in additional than 20 years has landed them in — because it’s fittingly titled — a “Higher Place”: again on the Billboard Sizzling 100 for the primary time since their boy-band heyday.
It is the group’s first single and chart look since 2002’s “Girlfriend” that includes Nelly (and their thirteenth Sizzling 100 hit general).
At that time, George W. Bush was president, A Stunning Thoughts had simply gained greatest image and the discharge of the primary iPhone was nonetheless half a decade away.
NSYNC went on hiatus in 2002 and finally disbanded. They’ve reunited for infrequent appearances within the years since, together with performing on the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, receiving a Hollywood Stroll of Fame star in 2018 and presenting an award to Taylor Swift on the VMAs final month.
Every gathering additional fueled followers’ hopes and theories that the group would get again collectively and make music once more. Now it has.
“Higher Place” might be on the soundtrack for the upcoming animated film Trolls Band Collectively. The children’ movie franchise stars NSYNC alum Justin Timberlake, and this specific installment is about reuniting a former boy band.
Timberlake described the tune as “a love letter to our followers” in an Instagram video forward of its launch.
“So many stars aligned and that is why I hit y’all and was like, ‘Hey, one thing got here up,’ ” Timberlake instructed his former bandmates within the video, which additionally included behind-the-scenes footage from the studio and snippets of the upbeat tune.
“Higher Place” got here out on the finish of September and debuted within the No. 25 spot on this week’s Sizzling 100, in line with Billboard. That is a tie for NSYNC’s highest chart begin: Its debut hit “I Need You Again” started in the identical (not higher) place in March 1998.
“Thanks for streaming, sharing, and supporting,” NSYNC stated on Instagram earlier this week. “It was an honor to get again behind the mic for you.”
*NSYNC performs in the course of the 2002 Olympic Winter Video games in Salt Lake Metropolis.
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*NSYNC performs in the course of the 2002 Olympic Winter Video games in Salt Lake Metropolis.
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Followers are very a lot hoping the band will keep there: They have been tweeting and flooding its Instagram feedback with pleas for a reunion tour. NSYNC hasn’t introduced any plans for one, however some members have hinted that it isn’t out of the query.
“If the followers need it that a lot, yell on the firms, yell at Sony, yell at RCA, yell at them to say that they want an NSYNC album,” Joey Fatone stated final month at ’90s Con.
A whole lot of individuals have already got signed a prolonged petition urging Sony Music and RCA to “Deliver Again NSYNC: They’re All We have Ever Needed!”
