  Justin Randal Timberlake, born
January 31, 1981 in Tennessee, had monumental
success as a member of 'N Sync and continued that
success as a solo artist in 2002. Prior to 'N Sync, Timberlake appeared
on Star Search and member of The
New Mickey Mouse Club.
 # 24
Singles Artist of the Year
Timberlake
could be seen portraying a young Elton
John in John's video for "This
Train Don't Stop There Any More."
Timberlake was
nominated for a Grammy Award Best Pop Collaboration with
Vocals
("My Kind Of Girl" with Brian McKnight).
Timberlake could be heard on Nelly's LP, Nellyville, with the track
"Work It."
 Timberlake hit the Top 40 with
"Like I Love You."
A fan of Timberlake was killed
was killed in California by a hit and run
driver who allegedly intentionally backed his
car into a crowd that was waiting to see
Timberlake appear at a radio station
promotion. A few weeks later, Timberlake
reacted to the tragedy by announcing he would
write and produce a public service
announcement against drunk driving.
Timberlake hit the Top 10 with "Like I Love You."
 Timberlake's solo LP - Justified - was released.
Timberlake co-wrote all the tracks on the LP.
He said of the LP: "I wanted to do
something new that was just completely me. I
had been so personally drained from the past
6 months and that made the emotion from the
record much more real."
Justified sold over 439,000
copies in its first week of release in the
US.
Timberlake broke his foot while
rehearsing and had to cancel a few weeks of
promotional events.
 Timberlake hit the Top 40 with
"Cry Me A River."
Justified was certified
2x platinum.
 # 1
Singles Artist of the Year (# 1
Male Artist of the Year)
Timberlake appeared on the cover
of Rolling
Stone with a photo spread by the late
Herb Ritts.
Timberlake hit
the Top 10 with "Cry Me A River."
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart for a week
with the 'Deep Dish & Basement Jazz
Mixes' of "Like I Love You."
Timberlake's Justified topped the UK Albums
chart for 7 weeks.
Timberlake was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Like I Love You" with Clipse).
 Timberlake topped the Billboard
R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales chart for 3
weeks and the Hot Dance Singles Sales chart
for 5 weeks with "Cry Me A River."
Timberlake hit the Top 40 with
"Rock Your Body."
Timberlake hit the Top 10 with "Rock Your Body."
Timberlake got a part-time gig
when he was hired as a special correspondent
for a few sports events to be televised on
Turner Sports.
 Timberlake hit #1 for 4 weeks with
"Rock Your Body."
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Top 40 Tracks chart with "Rock Your Body."
Timberlake co-hosted the MTV
Movie Awards.
Timberlake hit the Top 40
helping out the Black Eyed Peas on "Where Is The Love?" from their LP Elephunk.
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart for a week
with the remixes of "Rock Your Body."
Timberlake
began touring with Christina
Aguilera with the highly anticipated
'Justified and Stripped Tour.' The 2 also
appeared on the cover of Rolling
Stone together.
 Timberlake could be heard on the
Bad
Boys 2 soundtrack with the
track "I Love You."
Timberlake hit the Top 10 with the Black Eyed Peas on "Where Is The Love?"
Timberlake hit the Top 40 with
"Senorita."
Timberlake performed at a SARS
benefit concert in Toronto to a heavily
rock-oriented crowd who didn't appreciate his
appearance and responded with booing and
throwing objects on state. Timberlake later
returned to the stage when the Rolling
Stones asked him to help out with
their classic "Miss You."
 Justified was certified
3x platinum.
Timberlake's video for "Cry Me A River" won 2 MTV Video Music
Awards for Best Pop Video and Best Male Video, and was nominated for
Video of the Year, Best Direction (Francis Lawrence),
and Viewer's Choice. His video for "Rock Your Body" won for Best Dance Video and was nominated for Best Choreography (Marty Kudelka).
Timberlake's tour with Christina
Aguilera had to cancel some appearances
after an accident with a lighting grid in New
Jersey.
Timberlake hit the Top 10 with "Senorita."
Timberlake with the Black Eyed Peas topped the Billboard
Mainstream Top 40 chart with "Where Is The Love?"
Timberlake with the Black Eyed Peas hit #1 for 2 weeks with
"Where Is The Love?"
 Timberlake with the Black Eyed Peas topped the UK singles
chart with "Where Is The Love?"
Timberlake began teaming up with
the fast-food king, McDonald's for their ad
campaign.
Timberlake hosted and performed
on Saturday Night Live.
Timberlake won
a World Music Award for Best-Selling Dance
Artist.
Timberlake won a Radio Music
Awards for Artist of the Year - Top 40 Radio.
Timberlake won 3 MTV Europe
Awards for Best Male Artist, Best Album, and
Best Pop Award.
Timberlake won an American Music
Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Album, and was nominated for
Favorite Pop/Rock Male
Artist,
the Fan's Choice Award, and the Michael
Jackson International Artist of the Year
Award.
 Timberlake graced the cover of Rolling
Stone for the 3rd time this year.
Readers of Rolling
Stone named Timberlake's Justified as the Best
Album of the year and Timberlake as Artist of
the Year, Best Male Performer, and Best Tour.
Critics named Timberlake the Best Male
Performer.
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top New Pop
Artist, Top Hot Mainstream Top 40 Artist, and
Top Hot Dance Club Play Artist.
 Timberlake
performed at the Half-time Show for Super
Bowl XXXVIII. Timberlake was joined on "Rock Your Body" by Janet Jackson - at the end of the
song, Timberlake reached over to tear off a
portion of Janet's costume, resulting in
Janet flashing a breast to over 90 million
viewers on live TV. Controversy over the move
soon erupted with the NFL and CBS being
outraged at MTV (who produced the segment)
and the performers. The question was - was it
intentional or a mistake. Janet released a
statement the following day: "The
decision to have a costume reveal at the end
of my halftime show performance was made
after final rehearsals. MTV was completely
unaware of it. It was not my intention that
it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone
offended including the audience, MTV, CBS,
and the NFL." Timberlake had also
previously stated the incident was a costume
malfunction.
 Timberlake won
2 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Album (Justified) and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ("Cry Me A River"), and was nominated
for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
("Where Is The Love" with Black Eyed Peas). Timberlake also
performed at the ceremony.
Timberlake signed on for his
first movie role - Edison.
Timberlake won 2 Brit Awards for
Best International Album (Justified) and Best
International Male Artist.
Timberlake's video for "Senorita" was nominated
for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Male Video.
 Timberlake could be heard on the
soundtrack for Shark
Tale with "Good Foot."
Timberlake came in at #
148 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years.
 # 114
Singles Artist of the Year
 Timberlake hit the Top 40
helping out Snoop Dogg with "Signs."
Timberlake's single "Rock Your Body" was certified
gold.
Timberlake hit the Top 10 helping out Snoop Dogg with "Signs."
Timberlake underwent throat
surgery to remove nodules from his vocal
cords.
 # 7
Singles Artist of the Year
Timberlake
could be heard on Sergio Mendes' Timeless.
 Timberlake hit the Top 40 with
"SexyBack."
Timberlake hit the Top 10 with "SexyBack."
Timberlake performed at the MTV Video Music
Awards.
 Timberlake hit #1 for 6 weeks with "SexyBack."
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Hot 100 chart, Pop 100 chart, Hot Digital
Songs chart, Pop 100 Airplay chart, Hot 100
Airplay chart, and Hot Dance Airplay chart
with "SexyBack."
Timberlake released his next LP FutureSex
/ LoveSounds.
Timberlake hit the Top 40 with T.I. with
"My Love."
Timberlake appeared on the cover
of Rolling
Stone.
Timberlake topped the Billboard
200 LP chart, Top Digital Albums chart, and
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with FutureSex
/ LoveSounds. The LP sold over 684,000
copies its first week of release in the US.
 Timberlake topped the LP charts
in the UK and Canada with FutureSex
/ LoveSounds
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Hot Dance Club Play chart with "SexyBack."
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Hot 100 chart, Pop 100 chart, Pop 100 Airplay
chart, Hot 100 Airplay chart, and Hot Digital
Songs chart with T.I. with
"My Love."
Timberlake hosted the MTV Europe
Music Awards and took home trophies for Best
Male Artist and Best Pop Artist.
Timberlake hit #1 for 5 weeks with T.I. with
"My Love."
FutureSex
/ LoveSounds was certified 2x platinum.
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Hot Dance Airplay chart with T.I. with
"My Love."
Timberlake hosted and performed
on Saturday Night Live.
Timberlake hit the Top 40 with
"What Goes Around...
Comes Around."
FutureSex
/ LoveSounds was the 5th biggest-selling LP
in the US for the year with sales during the
year topping 2.3 million.
 # 1
Singles Artist of the Year (# 1
Male Artist of the Year)
 Timberlake hit the Top 10 with "What Goes Around...
Comes Around."
Timberlake could be seen in the
film Alpha Dog.
Timberlake hit the Top 40
helping out Timbaland and Nelly Furtado with
"Give It To Me."
 Timberlake won
2 Grammy Awards for Best Dance Recording ("SexyBack" with Timbaland) and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("My Love" with T.I.), and was nominated
for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album (FutureSex
/ LoveSounds). Timberlake performed at the
ceremony.
Timberlake won a Birt Award for
Best International Male Solo Artist.
The single "SexyBack" was certified 2x
platinum and the single "My Love"
was certified platinum.
 Timberlake hit #1 for 3 weeks with "What Goes Around...
Comes Around."
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Hot 100 chart, Pop 100 chart, Hot Digital
Songs chart, and Pop 100 Airplay chart with
"What Goes Around...
Comes Around."
Timberlake hit the Top 10 helping out Timbaland and Nelly Furtado with
"Give It To Me."
 Timberlake hit the Top 40 with
"Summer Love."
Timberlake could be heard on Timbaland's LP Timbaland
Presents Shock Value on the tracks "Give It To Me,"
"Release," and "Bounce."
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Hot 100 chart, Pop 100 chart,and Hot Digital
Songs chart helping out Timbaland and Nelly Furtado with
"Give It To Me."
Timberlake topped the UK singles
chart helping out Timbaland and Nelly Furtado with
"Give It To Me."
Timberlake hit the Top 10 with "Summer Love."
Timberlake hit #1 for a week helping out Timbaland and Nelly Furtado with
"Give It To Me."
 Timberlake hit #1 for 2 weeks with "Summer Love."
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Pop 100 Airplay chart with "Summer Love."
The single "What Goes Around...
Comes Around" was certified platinum
and "SexyBack" was certified 3x
platinum
Timberlake hit the Top 40 with
"LoveStoned."
The single "Summer Love" was certified
gold.
 Timberlake hit the Top 10 with "LoveStoned."
Timberlake hit the Top 40
helping out 50 Cent with
"Ayo Technology."
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Hot Dance Airplay chart and Hot Dance Club
Play chart with "LoveStoned."
Timberlake won 2 MTV Video Music
Awards for Male Artist of the Year and Quadruple Threat
of the Year. The video for "My Love" won for Best Choreography (Marty Kudelka) and
the video for "What Goes Around...
Comes Around" won for Best Direction (Samuel Bayer).
Additional nominations included Video of the Year, Best Editing (Hollee Singer), and
Most Earthshattering Collaboration ("SexyBack" with Timbaland).
 Timberlake could be heard on the
Reba McEntire LP Reba
Duets with "The Only Promise
That Remains."
Timberlake hit the Top 40 with Beyoncé with
"Until The End Of Time."
 Timberlake hit the Top 10 helping out 50 Cent with
"Ayo Technology."
Timberlake won 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist and Favorite Soul/R&B Album, and was nominated for
Favorite Pop/Rock Album.
Timberlake released FutureSex
/ LoveSounds (Deluxe Edition). The CD/DVD set
included 3 additional tracks.
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Hot Dance
Airplay Artist.
 # 72
Singles Artist of the Year
FutureSex
/ LoveSounds was certified 4x platinum.
Timberlake won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("What Goes Around...
Comes Around") and Best Dance Recording ("LoveStoned"), and was
nominated for Record of the Year ("What Goes Around...
Comes Around"), Best Pop Collaboration with
Vocals
("Give It To Me" with Timbaland and Nelly Furtado), and Best
Rap Song (awarded to the songwriter) ("Ayo Technology" with Nate Danja
Hills, Curtis Jackson, and Timothy Mosley).
 Timberlake hit the Top 40
helping out Madonna with "4 Minutes."
Timberlake topped the UK and
Canadian singles chart helping out Madonna with "4 Minutes."
Timberlake hit the Top 10 helping out Madonna with "4 Minutes."
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Hot Digital Songs chart and Hot Digital
Tracks chart helping out Madonna with "4 Minutes."
The single "Summer Love" was certified
platinum.
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Hot Dance Club Play chart and Hot Singles
Sales chart helping out Madonna with "4 Minutes."
Timberlake topped the Billboard
Hot Dance Airplay chart helping out Madonna with "4 Minutes."
Entertainment Weekly:
100 Best Albums of the Last 25 Years included FutureSex
/ LoveSounds at # 31.
The single "4 Minutes" was certified
gold.
Timberlake could be heard on the
T.I. LP Paper
Trail on the track
"Dead And Gone."
The single "Until The End Of Time" was certified
gold.
 Justin hit the Top 40 helping
out T.I. with
with "Dead And Gone."
Timberlake was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with
Vocals
("4 Minutes" with Madonna and Timbaland). Timberlake performed
at the ceremony.
Justin hit the Top 10 helping out T.I. with
with "Dead And Gone."
 Justin topped the Billboard Hot
100 Airplay chart, Hot Rap chart, and
Rhythmic chart helping out T.I. with
with "Dead And Gone."
Justin hit the Top 40 helping
out Ciara with
"Love Sex Magic."
Justin hit the Top 10 helping out Ciara with
"Love Sex Magic."
Timberlake hosted Saturday
Night Live.
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