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.”