*NYSNC were in a reflective mood this week as they looked back with love at the 30th anniversary of their formation. In a nostalgic Instagram post on Wednesday (Oct. 1), the band formed by Justin Timberlake, J.C. Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick and Lance Bass on Oct. 1, 1995 shared a compilation of videos in which the singers reflect on their deep bond with their fans, and each other.
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“30 years. ✨ October 1, 1995 feels like yesterday… and somehow a lifetime ago. Five guys chasing a dream turned into something bigger than we ever imagined,” the post began, alluding to the day that Bass officially joined the group that would go on to global superstardom. “The music. The shows. The memories. An unbreakable bond: with each other, and with all of you. Through every high and low, your love has carried us. Forever grateful. 💙 Here’s to three decades of *NSYNC.”
The accompanying video counts down from 2025 to 1995 with a flip-book of performance footage from throughout the years, as well as a compilation of the different fonts used to spell out the band’s name before tossing to a throwback series of shots of the five men from their earliest days together.
From there it takes fans through a short history of the band’s rapid rise to megastardom in the late 1990s and early 2000s, peaking with 2000’s No Strings Attached LP, which sold more than one million copies on day one and over 2.4 million copies in its first week. In a clip from their Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony, Bass says, “the best days of my life were in this group,” adding that the thing he’s most thankful for is the “brotherhood” with his bandmates.
In his own post, Bass shared a roll of pics and videos from over the years, writing, “30 years of *NSYNC… Feels like just yesterday we were learning choreography in an airplane hangar in Orlando, hoping our frosted tips would help us stand out. (They didn’t, but we committed!) What an amazing 30 years it’s been. From stadiums to TRL to TikTok- it’s wild to think we’ve grown up with you right there beside us. Thank you for riding with us through every era, every outfit, every questionable video. And to my brothers- thank you for the laughs and the memories I’ll never forget.”
In the anniversary video, Timberlake refers to the group as a “family,” saying he “can’t put into words how much the four of you mean to me,” as the clip ends with a supercut of the men talking about how they could have never dreamed of the heights they reached together. “I’d like to thank you gentlemen for making my dreams come true,” Chasez is seen saying at the Walk of Fame ceremony.
From 1995 until their hiatus in 2002, *NSYNC released four albums and scored an epic run of chart hits, including the 2000 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “It’s Gonna Be Me,” as well as the 1999 No. 2 hit “Music of My Heart” with Gloria Estefan, the No. 4 smash “Bye Bye Bye” and a pair of No. 5 singles with “Girlfriend” and “This I Promise You.”
While Timberlake went on to a huge solo career, the other band members have stayed busy with their own solo projects in music, TV and film, with the quintet reuniting for a performance at the 2013 MTV VMAs and for their 2018 Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony and in 2023 to release the song “Better Place” from the Trolls Band Together animated movie. They also reformed in the studio for the song “Paradise” from Timberlake’s sixth solo album, 2024’s Everything I Thought It Was.
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