Editing Total Request Live (section)

===Boy bands===
Even though late 1990s [[boy band]]s like Backstreet Boys and NSYNC released albums before ''TRL'' began in the fall of 1998, both groups only reached their commercial peaks after their videos were seen on ''TRL''. In 1999, the Backstreet Boys' second LP, ''[[Millennium (Backstreet Boys album)|Millennium]]'', achieved the highest first week sales ever from an LP at the time.<ref>{{Cite web|last=O'Connor|first=Christopher|date=1999-05-26|title=Backstreet Boys Smash Sales Mark With Millennium|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/514418/backstreet-boys-smash-sales-mark-with-millennium/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415034513/http://www.mtv.com/news/514418/backstreet-boys-smash-sales-mark-with-millennium/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 15, 2019|website=MTV News|access-date=July 28, 2021|language=en}}</ref>

In 2000, when NSYNC released their second LP ''[[No Strings Attached ('N Sync album)|No Strings Attached]]'', they topped the Backstreet Boys' first week sales and set a record for first-week album sales that would last for 15 years until [[Adele]]'s ''[[25 (Adele album)|25]]'' surpassed the record in 2015.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Caulfield|first=Keith|date=2015-11-24|title=Adele Breaks Single-Week U.S. Album Sales Record|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6776941/adele-breaks-album-sales-record-single-week-nsync|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224190907/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6776941/adele-breaks-album-sales-record-single-week-nsync|archive-date=2018-12-24|magazine=Billboard|access-date=July 28, 2021}}</ref> Fans numbering in the thousands stood outside ''TRL''{{'s}} studio to see NSYNC or Backstreet Boys appear as guests, resulting in the closure of Times Square.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jackman|first=Ian|title=Total Request Live: The Ultimate Fan Guide|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=2000|isbn=0-7434-1850-6|location=New York|pages=74}} "On their album release day, we probably had ten thousand kids outside."</ref><ref name=":0" /> Throughout most of 1998, 1999, and 2000, videos by the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC would claim the top position on the countdown.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Haack |first=Brian |date=2017-08-02 |title=MTV Memories: 11 Most-Requested '"TRL" Videos |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/remember-these-11-most-requested-trl-videos |access-date=2021-07-28 |website=GRAMMY.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite magazine |last=Lipshutz |first=Jason |date=2018-04-27 |title=The 10 Greatest Boy Band Videos of the TRL Era |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/8395651/best-boy-band-videos-trl |magazine=Billboard |language=en}} Retrieved July 28, 2021.</ref> Other boy bands of the era who achieved number one videos or received heavy rotation on the show included [[98 Degrees]], [[O-Town]], [[B2K]], [[soulDecision]],<ref name=":3" /> and [[LFO (American band)|LFO]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harvilla |first=Rob |date=2019-07-29 |title=How LFO's "Summer Girls" Explains the Weird, Wonderful Music of 1999 |url=https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/7/29/8934482/lfo-summer-girls-1999-music-abercrombie-fitch-song |access-date=2021-07-30 |website=[[The Ringer (website)|The Ringer]] |language=en}}</ref>