The Essential *NSYNC

[5] Band member Lance Bass said of the album on his radio show, Dirty Pop: "There's a lot of these songs I don't think I've ever heard, I remember recording them but I've never heard them before, so I'm interested in just hearing them."

JC Chasez tweeted about the album's release, stating: "I had the strangest dream last night that some old friends and I had a top 10 record on iTunes.

Crazy right..." Chris Kirkpatrick said of the album; "It's great to release some of the songs that had never made a record before!

Joey Fatone also said; "Pretty interesting this album comes out, which I really had no idea, and it's in the top of Amazon and iTunes... we owe it to our fans.

"[6] The album has sold 34,000 copies in the US according to Nielsen SoundScan as of February 2018.