Like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera,
and JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake got his start on
The Mickey Mouse Club. Justin and JC Chasez teamed
up with Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Joey
Fatone to form NSYNC which got started in Orlando,
Florida, in 1996.
The group’s debut album, NSYNC (1998),
was released on RCA/BMG, sold millions of copies
in both the United States and Europe and contained
the smash hits ‘I Want
You Back’ and ‘Tearing
Up My Heart’. NSYNC's second album,
No Strings Attached (2000),
was released on Jive and was even more commercially
successful. The album went double platinum in just
one week, and the songs ‘Bye
Bye Bye’ and ‘This
I Promise You’ became major hits.
After the release of NSYNC's third album, Celebrity
(2001), Justin started
recording as a solo artist. Justin's first solo
album, Justified, was released on Jive in November
2002. His first single ‘Like
I Love You’ became a huge hit and was
followed by a second single, ‘Cry
Me a River’.
