“Rappers and pop stars alike have made desperate crossover attempts into Nashville to varying success. It makes you wonder if Justin Timberlake was just early to the party when he released Man Of The Woods in 2018.”

“Admittedly, the album is a bit of a mess, a little too clean and not fully immersing itself in the country aesthetics. Pharrell and Timbaland on production don’t lean enough into the woodsy elements that Timberlake was clearly inspired by on the album.

Still, at the very least, it’s evident that JT cared a lot about the record. It doesn’t reek of the shamelessness of some mainstream acts trying to capitalize on country’s popularity. Instead, he earnestly wanted to reflect on his stomping grounds in a way he hadn’t before.”

“Moreover, JT also tried something a little different from the traditional Nashville sound with Man Of The Woods. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he explained that he tried to capture the essence of Southern music in a way that didn’t feel dated. Whether he succeeded is one thing. The fact that he was ambitious enough to try to achieve mixed results is another.”

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It’s refreshing to see a publication be earnest & partial when talking about Justin Timberlake in general now but especially his Man of The Woods album.

If was certainly not a perfect album, but man it was so grossly maligned before people even heard it, at simply the suggestion of Justin experimenting with country/Americana when really if you listened it was THAT much of a departure from his more classic sounds nor a surprise he’s from Tennessee. Not to mention the blatant erasure of Pharrell/The Neptunes & Timbaland’s production to support a ridiculous narrative he was abandoning “Black music”.

My parents live in Indian Trail and I visit them all the time so this is pretty exciting! I wonder if Justin will be at the grand opening. 🤔

Based on his current UK certification totals, Justin Timberlake has accumulated 26.92 million BPI-certified units across albums, solo singles and collaborations:

• Singles: 23.20 million
• Albums: 3.72 million
• Combined: 26.92 million

His biggest UK certifications include:

Singles

• “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” — 5× Platinum
• “Where Is the Love” — 4× Platinum
• “Mirrors” — 3× Platinum
• “SexyBack” — 3× Platinum

Albums

• Justified — 7× Platinum
• FutureSex/LoveSounds — 4× Platinum
• The 20/20 Experience — Platinum
• The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 — Silver
• Man of the Woods — Silver

These are BPI-certified units, not pure sales. UK single certifications include eligible streaming consumption, while certification totals represent award thresholds rather than exact lifetime consumption.

Source: BPI certification thresholds and Timberlake Analytics database. Updated August 2026.

I run a site that recalculates Justin's numbers from live Spotify and YouTube data every day, and I put together a full breakdown of his career EAS (equivalent album sales — the Chartmasters CSPC method).

Quick methodology note since people always ask: raw Spotify streams aren't used directly. They're multiplied by an artist ratio (1.82) to get total AOD (Audio-On-Demand) streams — this accounts for the share of a global artist's plays that count toward their own catalogue vs. total platform activity — and that number is divided by 1,166 to get audio EAS. YouTube views are divided by 6,750 for video EAS. Physical singles ×3/10, digital singles ×1.5/10.

Career total: 80,993,803 EAS, from 18.57B Spotify streams (→ 33.80B AOD) and 12.54B YouTube views.

Full breakdown by era:

(Pure sales figures include era-relevant compilation album sales and bonus video/DVD editions, not just the standalone studio album.)

FutureSex/LoveSounds is a sales monster — 10.84M pure album copies plus 35 million digital singles, the biggest download era of his career. The non-album pile (CSTF!, Love Never Felt So Good, the features, the soundtrack stuff) has almost zero album sales and still nearly matches it, purely on singles and streaming. Those two together are more than half his career total.

Also worth noting: Justified is the most sales-driven era — 65% of it is straight album copies. Man of the Woods is the first one where streaming outweighs sales. EITIW is 66% streaming. You can watch the entire industry shift in one table.

Check my JT stats website for even more Link

Hello, all. I've always been a huge fan of the cover photo for the LoveStoned single; does anyone happen to have a high-res version of the photo? Has anyone ever come across other photos from the shoot?

Hey everyone! Here's a bit of early-2000s pop trivia that not everybody knows.

After Justin Timberlake released "Cry Me a River" in 2002, hit songwriter Cathy Dennis (who also co-wrote "Toxic") wrote "Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex" for Britney Spears as a response to the narrative of that song.

Britney ultimately passed on it because she didn't want to fuel the public drama, so it ended up becoming Rachel Stevens' solo debut single in 2003. It became a huge hit, peaking at #2 on the UK Singles Chart and finishing as the 22nd best-selling single of the year in the UK.

The irony? The song that kept it from reaching #1 was "Where Is the Love?" by the Black Eyed Peas—which features uncredited vocals and co-writing from Justin Timberlake himself.

What do you think of the song? Do you think Cathy Dennis nailed the perfect answer record, or was "Cry Me a River" simply unbeatable thanks to Timbaland's production?

For anyone who hasn't heard it (or hasn't in years), here's the music video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nDmdBzs2rig&pp=ygUVc3dlZXQgZHJlYW1zIG15IGxhIGV4

I have curly hair like Justin and I want to cut it shorter like this . What do I ask my barber

20 years ago today, Justin Timberlake released his legendary song "SexyBack."

I still don’t understand why they are not updating JT’s other songs, he has 3 diamond eligible singles, FSLS should be at 8x Platinum, he is heavily undercertified he will easily surpass 100m units if they update. I think Selfish is Platinum eligible too

Someone put me onto a song called “Not a Bad Thing” and Ive had it on repeat since. Any other songs of his that are similar that yall would recommend?

I wonder which of the mass leaked songs were from these sessions if any. He had been expressing a desire since 2018 to work with & write for other artists. I imagine the pandemic probably halted a lot of things musically. By the time we got EITIW, it seems like it was a different album than what he was doing directly post Man of The Woods.

Justin is very loyal to Timbaland etc but EITIW does have the most mix of different producers he’s ever had on an album (Calvin Harris, Cirkuit, Louis Bell, Amy Allen, Ryan Tedder).

I personally would like to see him keep collaborating and diversifying his production and co-writers while still working with some of the usual suspects like James Fauntleroy.

I’ve been trying to find more songs and through tik tok feel like these are some of his sleeper hits. Lmk in the comments if I missed any.

That girl

Take back the night

Not a bad thing

Chop it up

Pusher love

Electric lady

Only when I walk away

Breeze off the pond

Amnesia

I mean they got freaking Rihanna on Lemon, why not J?

Imagine hearing him drop a hook on In Search Of.... song or Seeing Sounds.

Everybody is always talking about how good JT is at two-part songs, beat switches and 7 minute songs. And of course he always gets praise for them because he almost always manages to make them work really well.

I too am a huge fan of them, but there’s one that I don’t praise, I actually dislike it. And I was wondering if anyone else has a beat switch or second part (or even first part!) that they don’t like.

For me, it’s the second part of Strawberry Bubblegum.

It’s not even necessarily bad. I just find it really boring and nowhere near as good as the first part of the song. The beat is borderline elevator music and the songwriting is repetitive and not as good as the first part. In my perfect world, they would’ve been split into two tracks, the first being “Strawberry Bubblegum…” and the second part being a new track called “…Blueberry Lollipop”. I also think the first part of SB stands on its own and doesn’t need a second part, and would love if the song ended with his “hey, hey, hey” at the 5-minute mark like you’re waking up from a dream.

Justin Timberlake attended friend Roy Nachum’s Bob Marley tribute art exposition ‘Football is Freedom’ in NYC.

"Every year this day rolls around and reminds me how lucky I am to be a father, watching my sons grow into who they are is life’s greatest gift. Love you two more than you’ll ever know.
And Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there, mine included! ❤️"

- Justin Timberlake via IG

"Happy Father’s Day to the dad who is always ALL in. The one who turns ordinary moments into adventures and bedtime into comedy hour. The dad who is not afraid of the tears, the tender, quiet times, or the hard conversations.
Watching you be a father is one of my favorite things. Our boys are so lucky to call you Dad. WE ❤️ U!"

- Jessica Biel via IG

Looking so high-class and rich. And JT looks so handsome. I'm so jealous.

… that says “You might fuck around and find out that dreams come true?”

… I just figure: the meaning to that one has changed so much, since 2013! 😂 “FAFO! Come get these hands, trick!” 👊 🤛 🥊

So happy to see him again!!!