Editing Lance Bass (section)

====Free Lance Entertainment====
In 2000, Bass formed a [[music management]] company named Free Lance Entertainment, which was a joint venture with [[Mercury Nashville]], a division of [[Mercury Records]].<ref name="FreeLance" /> Vowing to keep the company "a strictly family-run operation", Bass employed his parents and sister as talent scouts, and he recruited childhood friend and aspiring country singer [[Meredith Edwards (country music singer)|Meredith Edwards]] for the company's first release.<ref name="Meredith Edwards">{{cite web |author=Zhito, Lisa | title=Lance Bass Protégé Meredith Edwards in Sync With Country |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1441732/lance-bass-protg-meredith-edwards-in-sync-with-country/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213174426/http://www.mtv.com/news/1441732/lance-bass-protg-meredith-edwards-in-sync-with-country/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 13, 2015 | date=March 16, 2001 |access-date=May 13, 2022| publisher=MTV News}}</ref> Edwards began touring with NSYNC as an opening act in the fall of 2000,<ref name="Meredith Edwards" /> and Bass teamed up with MTV to hold a nationwide talent search for more artists later that year.<ref name="Timbaland">{{cite magazine |author=Hiatt, Brian. |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17324001/artist_to_watch_onerepublic| date=May 27, 2000|title=Artist to Watch: OneRepublic |access-date=November 22, 2007 |magazine=Rolling Stone|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071127070418/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17324001/artist_to_watch_onerepublic |archive-date = November 27, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, Free Lance soon folded after disappointing sales of Edwards's debut album, ''[[Reach (Meredith Edwards album)|Reach]]''.<ref name="Timbaland" /><ref name="Defunct">{{cite web |author=Smith, Mary |title=Lance Bass Biography |publisher=ARS Compendium |url=http://www.arscompendium.com/2006/08/04/lance-bass-biography/ |access-date=October 21, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412132953/http://www.arscompendium.com/2006/08/04/lance-bass-biography/ |archive-date=April 12, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>