Overview
- Bass said on The Zach Sang Show on Thursday that he and his bandmates were given a $35 daily per diem and that their first check after years of No. 1 albums was about $10,000.
- He said he still gets some residuals from *NSYNC but that those payments are small and did not make the members wealthy.
- Bass pointed to the band’s record label and manager Lou Pearlman as taking the bulk of earnings, and reporting notes that Pearlman was convicted in 2008 of conspiracy, money laundering and bankruptcy fraud and died in prison in 2016.
- The payments Bass describes contrast with *NSYNC’s commercial record, including No Strings Attached selling 2.4 million copies in its first week and the No Strings Attached tour grossing more than $70 million.
- This interview mostly restates Bass’s long‑held account rather than presenting new legal evidence and it underscores how management deals and label contracts can leave major acts with little direct pay.