After NSYNC’s Bye Bye Bye appeared in the opening of Deadpool & Wolverine, it has moved into the global top 20 on Spotify.
The knock-on effect of playing a prominent part in the massively successful Marvel movie’s opening scene has catapulted the boy band up to number 16 in the global Spotify charts less than a week after the film debuted in theaters.
The song features alongside a choreographed dance routine during the opening credits of Deadpool & Wolverine as Ryan Reynold’s Wade Wilson engages in battle.
Deadpool & Wolverine boost NSYNC
NSNYC’s Bye Bye Bye first debuted in 2000, reaching the fourth spot on the US Billboard Hot 100 and the Top 10 in almost every country in which it charted that year. It received a 2001 Grammy nomination.
The year of its initial release is fitting, as 2000 marked the start of 20th Century Fox’s Marvel journey, which began with Bryan Singer’s X-Men. Of course, that’s also where Hugh Jackman first played Wolverine. As Deadpool & Wolverine is essentially a farewell to the Fox era of Marvel and gives Jackman another swansong outing as the character, Bye Bye Bye is entirely appropriate.
It won’t be goodbye to Deadpool, though. The team-up movie launches the Merc with a Mouth into the MCU. It’s already a hugely successful introduction, and the movie has enjoyed a phenomenal opening weekend.
Deadpool & Wolverine clawed its way to a staggering $205 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend. Worldwide, it hit over $438 million. Those numbers made it the biggest R-rated movie opening ever and already eclipsed the lifetime gross of the majority of Fox Marvel films. It’s the fifth-highest opening for an MCU movie to date.
It helped push the MCU’s lifetime box office past $30 billion in a seismic week for the brand. Marvel followed Deadpool and Wolverine’s success with the bombshell announcement of Robert Downey Jr. returning to the MCU in a new villainous role.
