"FutureSex/LoveSounds" Scores Big

justin timberlakeThis week proved that once again Justin Timberlake is one boy band member who can enjoy success after leaving the boys behind.

Sales numbers for his second offering, "FutureSex/LoveSounds," are in, and with the buzz around his single "SexyBack," he was able to upstage the sales of first offering, "Justified," back in 2004. In its first outing, "FutureSex/LoveSounds" sold 684,000 units in one week. Not bad, although not nearly as close as his *NSYNC cohorts who sold over 2 million albums in one week back in 2000.

It also didn't hurt that he collaborated with some of the most talented producers in hip-hop music today, including JAWBreakers, Timbaland and Rick Rubin.

Let's hope JT can avoid the fate that has befallen other pop icons in their second week of album sales. Jessica Simpson's "Public Affair" dropped 41% in its second week in stores and this week Beyoncé's "B'Day" dropped an astounding 70%. Ouch.

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31. my daughter says "Sexy Back rocks!!!!"

Posted at 7:08PM on Sep 21st 2006 by tall cool one

32. Don't believe the hype...I see alot of people are in a frenzy over the record company generated hype here regarding Justin Timberlake's album. Now, although I haven't heard Jessica Simpson's album, which I am sure is a mess,
judging from the first single, I can not believe that it could be any worse than Justin Timberlake's album or Beyonce's new album...I've heard both Justin's and Beyonce's album online and they are terrible...That's the reason that Beyonce's album has fallen off by 70% and why I am sure Justin's album will drop at least by half next week. They are not very good albums and thus word of mouth is going spread about how horrible they are like a damn fire storm, despite the false kudos they are buying. This ain't the old days when you could buy an album like Prince's "1999"...or Michael Jackson's "Thriller", where every song, or most every song, could be a released as a single with the prospect of becoming a monster hit!!! Justin's album will not be around a year from now...and quite frankly, it'll be lucky to still be in the top 10 by Thanksgiving or the top 15 by Christmas. It's that terrible. Now only the hype will keep this turkey of an album on the charts over the next month or so. That said, you can expect more staged fights with photographers by Justin Timberfake and Cameron Diaz....and more false claims that the photogs tried to run her, or them, over with his car...and of course, the resulting show trials...the staged arrests and perp walks. But after Timberfake's album dies on the charts in another few months, we'll never hear about Cameron Diaz playing chicken with that photographer's car ever again. In the end, regardless of the truth, all of this seems rather shallow when you think about all of the people in the world who are being systematically killed in wars, famines, and by the world wide pandemic of AIDs, etc.,...Justin Timberfake and Cameron Diaz should be ashamed of themselves in respect to fighting with photographers in the streets in hopes of garnering millions of dollars worth of false publicity using cheap tactics and other obvious phony stunts to create controversy in order to push Justin's sorry album!!! Strictly pathetic!!!

Posted at 8:14PM on Sep 21st 2006 by Blue Gloves

33. timberlake is a great talent and his music is great but he is definitley gay

Posted at 7:03AM on Oct 12th 2006 by bill

34. a lot of you people are just "hater's" because you know you can't do better than them. Justin is extremely talented, and so is Jessica Simpon and as I recall she WAS doing A LOT much better wihout Nick, she doesn't need him to be sucessful

Posted at 5:08PM on Nov 16th 2006 by finest

35. Ok everybody has different tastes in music. I personally don't go by artists, I go by songs. I don't typically like JT, but his new cd has some good songs on it. Plus. people need to just stop comparing artists with one another, especially the male artists with the femal ones. If you don't like somebody's music then that's great for you, but keep your comments to yourself and don't bash other people's opinion.

Posted at 4:59PM on Dec 8th 2006 by Shay

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