Claim: NSYNC was signed to a German record label.
Evidence: After heavily publicized legal battles with their former manager Lou Pearlman and former record label Bertelsmann Music Group , the group 's second album , No Strings Attached , sold over one million copies in one day and 2.42 million copies in one week , which was a record for over fifteen years.
Bertelsmann Music Group -LRB- abbreviated as BMG -RRB- was a division of German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan 's Sony Corporation of America on October 1 , 2008.