It's that time of the year once more and *NSYNC's pop hit single "It's Gonna Be Me" is hitting the trends again, thanks to the viral meme that comes around every spring. This time, the disbanded boyband wittingly put a different twist to the annual "joke" - they changed the title officially on streaming platforms Apple Music and Spotify to "It's Gonna Be May." See it for yourself on the Spotify playlist below -
The album itself peaked at No. 1 on Billboard 200 album chart on April 8, 2000. It stayed on the chart for 85 weeks. From the same album, two more hits landed among the Top 10 with "Bye Bye Bye" (ranked No. 4 on April 15, 2000) and "This I Promise You" (peaked at No. 5 on December 2, 2000).
Justin Timberlake, in a radio interview with 95-106 Capital FM in June 2016, admitted that Max Martin, the co-writer of "It's Gonna Be Me," asked him to pronounce the word differently. "In my defense," he said, "Max Martin made me sing "me" that way." Timberlake gave the full credit and blame to the writer. He was grateful to Martin and said, "now we have the meme of the century." The now solo artist who is 39 thought that Martin "wanted me to sound like I was from Tennessee." Timberlake was only 19 years old during the time of recording of the hit song.