Rock Euphoria

BOCA RATON, FL — The wait is over. 

‘N Sync’s new album Celebrityhit shelves Tuesday. And if you waited in line to be one of the first to grab a copy, you were not alone.

At 10 a.m., about 30 fans who had been waiting in line flocked into Best Buy in Boca Raton (which was blasting the group’s first single “Pop”) to buy the new album.

“I am a crazed ‘N Sync fan … obsessed is the word actually,” said Stephanie Fabric, 17. “I couldn’t wait until 10 a.m. so I could buy [the album].”

“I came with her,” Casty Conway, 16, said pointing at Fabric. “I would have come anyway but probably not as early.”

Celebrity is the follow-up album to last year’s No Strings Attached, which set a record by selling 1 million on the release day, and 2.4 million copies in its first week of domestic release.

“There’s going to be huge competition with No Strings Attached,” singer Lance Bass told Launch.com. “I mean, definitely, and it’s one of those things where everyone is going to expect us to beat the record from last year and all that type of stuff, which I ‘m kind of hoping we don’t beat just so we’ll go ahead and end it now, so that next time around we don’t have to beat Celebrity because eventually, you know, you’re going to have to sell less.”

Fans have no doubt that the new album will sell as much, if not more, than their previous release.

“I think they are gonna sell more this week because their songs are taken to a new level, ” said Fabric. ” I think it’s better than No Strings Attached.”

“The songs are more mature than the first album, it sounds much better,” Marissa Mesoni, 16, said.

Fans know some of the songs because the band has performed half the album on their current PopOdyssey tour, which started before the album’s release.

“We’re looking at the audience and seeing if they’re digging it, and so far we like the reaction that we’re getting,” ‘N Sync’s J.C Chasez told Launch.com.

Michaline Evans, 16, also was one of the first customers to purchase the album.

“I can’t wait to listen to their CD when I get to my car,” she said. Evans will be attend her first concert when the group performs Aug. 2 in Miami.

Previously published on hollywood.com

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