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"It's Gonna Be Me" - *NSYNC

from the album No Strings Attached (2000)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 21

 

Today's song comes from the male vocal "boy-band" group *NSYNC, who scored a top ten hit in the spring of 2000 with "Bye Bye Bye", the lead single from their album No Strings Attached, which sold a record-breaking 2.4 million copies in its first week on sales. The second release from the record was the uptempo jam "It's Gonna Be Me". Written by the Swedish team of Max Martin, Andreas Carlsson, and producer Rami Yacoub, the song has the group trying to convince a woman to be her rebound, which is a pretty sketchy premise in itself, but somehow in the English as a second language lyrics they are able to sell it. I mean look at them. They're GOR-geous. Anyway, The single was more notable for the music video, which cast JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, Chris Kirkpatrick, Lance Bass, and Joey Fatone as marionette toys waiting to be bought. Shenanigans ensue...

 

 "It's Gonna Be Me" became *NSYNC's only #1 hit on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 pop chart in America in July of 2000. The single also climbed to #28 on their older-skewing Adult Top-40 radio chart, and #7 on the dance-oriented Rhythmic format list. The song was so big it even made the Latin Pop Airplay chart (even though it was in English) at #28. Internationally, the single went to #1 in Canada, made the top ten in Belgium (#2F/#9W), Sweden (#6), New Zealand (#7), and the UK (#9), and reached the top-40 in Australia (#11), Norway (#11), Italy (#13), Ireland (#23), the Netherlands (#30), Germany (#37), Switzerland (#39), and Austria (#40). Both *NSYNC and the album will be back to the series.

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Here's the group performing "It's Gonna Be Live" on Rosie O'Donnell...

Next up, live in concert...

For the MTV Movie Awards they brought their own video to life...

And lastly, on their PopOdyseey tour in 2001..

Up tomorrow: This R&B singer gives up his desired location.