Justin Timberlake has a new reason to “dance dance dance,” a new year-end report reveals.
The singer’s summer 2016 hit, ‘Can’t Stop the Feeling,’ may have been snubbed for major recognition at the 2017 Grammys, but it appears Timberlake will have the last laugh as the ‘Trolls’ tune has beat out The Chainsmoker‘s ‘Closer,’ Drake‘s ‘One Dance,’ and even Rihanna‘s massive hit ‘Work’ to lay claim to the title of 2016’s best selling single.
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Co-written by by Shellback and Max Martin, the feel-good tune – Timberlake’s first Hot 100 #1 in nearly a decade – is the year’s best seller, according to Forbes magazine.
The song, co-written with Max Martin and Shellback, has sold 2.4 million downloads in 2016, according to Nielsen Music and been streamed nearly 700 million times.
The track, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May to become Timberlake’s fifth solo chart topper, was named the No. 1 adult pop song of the year by Billboard, as well as landed in the year-end Top 10 for Hot 100 songs and pop songs and Top 5 for radio songs.
The news follows a report from TIME magazine where the song was branded “the worst song of 2016.”
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Justin Timberlakes catchy song was corny.
…and Beyonce. Let’s not forget Beyonce. All Night is flopping just like the rest of the singles from
Flint Michigan Tap Water Kool-AidLemonade.The reason why they didnt even bother mentioning Beyonce is because it’s no secret that she’s not a strong single seller. Now if it was album…
@metzo that’s an excuse hun. This site loves Beyoncé and refuses to post a fail from the B@&$h. PLain and simple.
All those flop singles but yet she still topped rihanna on billboards 2016 year end chart…lmaooo imagine having a hit single and still losing to your bosses wife.
You ran up in this post to shout Beyoncé’s name. Bey on the brain.
Why bring Beyonce’s name in this? Let JT and Rihanna have some shine too. I think Beyonce had the highest grossing tour and Drake the highest selling album. If JT and Rihanna had one of the highest selling singles then great. Do Beyonce haters really expect Beyonce to be number 1 at everything?
@Centurion You’re such a troll. Let’s break down the numbers… singles sell for $1.29. The high grossing single this year only sold 2.4 million = $3,000,000 Lemonade sold approximately 1.6 million copies in the US only at $17.99 = $28,000,000. So again, who’s winning in this race?
Janet Jackson will never
Janet Jackson will never crack like JT lol
Janet has already?
wtf y bring jenet in this that’s just crappy n irrelevant,
TIME Magazine got it right lol…the song is BLEAK *Mariah voice*
stand up, get out of your mom’s basement and get a job, you’re old Fancy BISH
YOU WISH…THANK GOD for ALL my blessings! And Merry Christmas….PETTY HOEE! lol
This song was a big hit, but it seem like no one cared at the same time. The film didn’t do so well either.
Lmao once again Beyonce is brought up by the pathetic Salvation Army. Like damn get off her clít! It’s her fault Metallica is less than 400k from outselling your fav. It’s not her fault JB blocked Frihanna from an AOTY nominations. Its not he fault she snatched accolades from your fav left and right all year long. Not her fault she has the best selling Female tour and Album this year. Get over it! Rihorse is a flop that needed Bey’s leftovers (Samsung).
your saying that as if justin Bieber and Metallica aren’t huge artist . Metallica has sold more albums than bey and rih as solo artist. You are quick to label someone a flop. In my pen ion Rih and bey BOTH had an amazing year and I personally think it’s Rihanna’s best album. Neither artist is flopping, neither is going anywhere any time soon.
You know Rih is far from a flop what are you exactly doing hun? This was Rihs best year of her career she received many great high year end places and had a MASSIVELY successful year stop hating
Why are you even bothering to respond to “it”? We all know how HUMONGOUS Rihanna’s year was. What is truly interesting is the fact that overall album sales are being brought into the conversation when, as reality shows, an album that was released in 2015 still managed to outsell every 2016-based release. As the year-end charts show, we know what artist truly “owned” 2016. ?
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Anyway, “Love On the Brain” is now in the top 20 of 6 radio formats and has just entered the top 15 on overall radio. This song is shaping up to be one of her biggest hits – all it needs is to survive the current christmas freeze on radio and a video in order for it to truly explode. ?
Rihanna is now just the 6th act in history to have 40 top 20 hits and only behind Madonna among females wow legend at only 28!
Congratulations.
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“WORK” is the best-selling female lead single of 2016 with “4M+” pure sales units sold WW with “7.5M+” streaming equivalents. Sia’s “Cheap Thrills” is a second with “7.4M+” streaming equivalents sold and it just (may) surpass “WORK” by years-end.
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Rihanna is a Legend,Winning,it don’t get no better??????????
Congrats Rih n Justin wheres Bet?
I still bet prefer Jon B. over Justin and Robin any day
You betta stan for Jon B. chile lol….yaaaaaaas, with his fine self
Omg yass!!! That milk chocolate has aged beautifully!!! still s*** as hell!!!
So, JT outsold One Dance…
Which had no video nor was it connected to a movie
I can just punch this mothafuka in the face, I hate his ass
Congrats JT! Adele actually has the best selling album of 2k16. We’re no talking about streams either. Billboard named ‘Artist Of The Year’! So deserved!!
Dreamworks probably bought most of them
We all know Mr. Timberlake loves to top Drake, you didn’t need to tell us that dahhhhling!
Sadly him being Caucasian is what sells his music, usually isn’t about his sound ?…People of color,take longer to get received as talented by followers of them…
Slay rih! Ur the only one i care about
See? I don´t care about that song, but if it was clearly the best selling song of the year then it should have topped Billboard charts for more than one week. Instead of that, Drake and others stayed weeks and weeks thanks to streaming. It´s so unfair. A joke. Same thing happened with Beyonce being clearly among the 3 top sellers of the year (more or less) while her album didn´t spend that much time at #1 because of the streams other albums got. Both Billboars charts are now a joke and don´t represent the real success, the one coming from people who actually spend their money in the music they like.