98 Degrees plan next album

Boy band 98 Degrees is already busy planning its new album.

The four members just finished doing a series of Christmas specials, including one at MuchMusic in Toronto. They plan to finish the holiday season off with a performance in Times Square on New Year's, MTV reports.

The end of 1999 doesn't spell relaxation for the group though. Band-mamber Jeff Timmons said the boys plan to take a month off after Christmas and then start working on a new album.

Timmons and the other members have high hopes for their newest album.

"You're gonna see us grow vocally as well as musically," he told MTV. "We're gonna write a lot more songs than we did on ["98 Degrees And Rising"], and produce probably the majority of the album. So definitely look for us to take a step in a more mature direction as a group."

--AllPop