Musicians don't often become memes, but the following bands and artists deserved more respect than internet humor fame could ...

Rick Astley celebrates his 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up" reaching one billion streams on Spotify. The song gained refound popularity in the early 2000s thanks to the Rick-Rolling meme.

The meme stems from NSYNC's 2000 smash hit "It's Gonna Be Me." When singing the titular line in the song, Timberlake annunciates the word "me" as "May." According to a 2016 article from E!