Justin Timberlake got the old band back together when he reunited with *NSYNC on Wednesday night (March 13) during his pre-album-release show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles.
JT and *NSYNC made hearts race, and set charts alight, during their golden run in the 1990s and early 2000s, before going on hiatus in 2002. The boy band ā or, now, man band ā was back to their old ways in L.A., a full-body workout ahead of Timberlakeās Forget Tomorrow World Tour.
Tonightās āOne Night Showā will be a hard act to follow. Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick and Lance Bass performed their smash ā90s hits āBye Bye Byeā and āItās Gonna Be Meā and debuted the new collaborative track āParadise.ā
The surprise reunion was their first onstage since an appearance at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards last September. Prior to that, the āItās Gonna Be Meā singers last strutted their stuff as the full, five-piece unit back in 2013, for JTās Video Vanguard Award medley.
Later, in 2019, Chasez, Kirkpatrick, Fatone and Bass joined Ariana Grande onstage during her headlining Coachella set for a performance of āBreak Up With Your Girlfriend, Iām Boredā and āTearinā Up My Heart.ā On that occasion, Timberlake wasnāt in the place.
Timberlake did return to his roots ā and the studio ā with *NSYNC in 2023 for āBetter Place,ā which accompanied the JT-starring animated family film Trolls Band Together. The track bowed at No. 25, for *NSYNCās lucky 13th appearance on the Billboard Hot 100.
All told, *NSYNC has earned six top 10 hits on the Hot 100, including āBye Bye Byeā (No. 4), āThis I Promise Youā (No. 5) and āItās Gonna Be Meā (No. 1, two weeks). On the Billboard 200, the lads have notched four top 10 titles, including the No. 1 albums No Strings Attached (eight weeks) and Celebrity (one week).
JTās concert acts as a curtain raiser for the release Friday (March 15) of his sixth solo album Everything I Thought It Was and the kick-off of his Forget Tomorrow World Tour on April 29 at Rogers Arena, in Vancouver, Canada.
The forthcoming album, led by the single āSelfish,ā marks JTās first solo release in more than five years. EITIW is the follow-up to his 2018 solo LP Man of the Woods, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Earlier this week, Timberlake had a debut performance of the EITIW song āNo Angelsā on Jimmy Kimmel Live!