As the decade winds down to its final days, entertainment junkies are being treated to a ton of “Best Of” lists, and I can’t seem to devour enough of the celebratory coverage.

Surveying the biggest music of the past 10 years, Billboard bestowed top-album honors to *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached. The boy band enjoyed man-sized sales with their third album when the decade had barely just begun, setting a record that still stands today.

Released on March 21, 2000, No Strings Attached sold more than 2.4 million copies in its first week. By year’s end, *NSYNC’s tally had grown to an astounding 10 million albums. You may hate them now — well, not JT or JC — but it ain’t no lie, back then it was buy, buy, buy.

“Bye Bye Bye,” the first single from Strings, was issued in January 2000, ahead of the album’s release. The song hit #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 14, and spent two weeks there before going, um, bye-bye-bye:

Purchase *NSYNC- “Bye Bye Bye” via iTunes, Amazon MP3.