- NSYNC’s ‘Bye Bye Bye’ is back in Spotify’s global top 50 more than 20 years after its release
- Song features in Deadpool and Wolverine opening credits
- NSYNC’s YouTube account has even renamed the song
More than 24 years after the song was first a hit for US boyband NSYNC, ‘Bye Bye Bye’ is back in Spotify’s global top 20 – and its all thanks to a certain masked superhero.
Memorable scene
If you haven’t seen the film yet – or seen the clip, which is doing the rounds on social media – the memorable opening credits scene of Deadpool & Wolverine features the Merc with the Mouth dancing to the song.
On the back of that, the song has been streamed more than 3.8 million times – at the time of writing – to propel it to number 13 on streaming site Spotify’s Global Top 50.
Even Deadpool & Wolverine’s director, Shawn Levy, has chipped in. Posting on X (everyone still calls it Twitter) he simply said, “Our work here is done”.
NSYNC’s YouTube channel has also spotted the resurgence in popularity of the song and has accordingly renamed the video ‘Bye Bye Bye (official video from Deadpool and Wolverine)’.
Well known
‘Bye Bye Bye’ was a song on NSYNC’s third studio album, ‘No Strings Attached’, released in 2000. The song spent five weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart and was a hit around the world and become one of the group’s best-known songs. NSYNC’s members famously included Justin Timberlake, who later went onto a successful solo music and acting career.
Deadpool & Wolverine has been a hit since it hit theaters around the world last week, taking more than $444 million at the global box office, and it looks set to become one of the biggest MCU movies of all time.
