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Reading the information you gave me, three questions came to me about JT's career.
First. Was it detrimental to the period he spent focusing on movies and forgetting his singing career, thinking of the fact that he could have achieved his greatest success by releasing an album in 2008 or 2009?
Second. Would not it be unfair to compare Ed Sheeran, Bruno or Bieber considering they started their career in the age of youtube and spotify rise, and the JT in that decade is already considered a veteran? And it really does not have much popularity on youtube, not even on spotify.
Third. Do you see this period of haters as detrimental to Justin's career as a whole?
Thank you for answering me.
Even if he was not to focus on his movies career. I doubted he will make that huge of an impact in terms of "Global" success. He is an R&B singer, and R&B singers always finds it tougher to sell outside of the English speaking world. If you look at Beyonce's sales, a huge percentage of sales came from the English speaking countries, but in certain countries such as France or Germany (Which both is the top 5 biggest music market in the world), her sales are pathetic. When you look at Usher's Confession album which was a huge success worldwide speaking. You look into the album sales and the same story occurs. It was heavily sold in the English speaking world, but did just ok in other countries. I never consider Justin as in the same league as Beyonce or Usher at the peek of their career. So I doubted he could've done so much more with his music had he were to focused more on music rather than acting.
Hi Alisson!
About the 3 questions:
1) Yes, JT could have got a higher total to date if he had been more prolific. Waiting 7 years after your more successful album is surely not optimized. His film career no doubt impacted negatively his efficiency in getting records ready.
2) We can't say that really. There was no Spotify / YouTube at his prime, but album sales were much higher by then, the overall market was bigger in 2002 than it is now. He had a better contextual market and also more years to accumulate sales than Ed / Bruno / Bieber so it's definitely not unfair to him, kind of the opposite.
3) Bashing campaigns can't really help, but they often come as a conclusion of something rather than the root cause. When the general public suddenly blame everything from an artist, it means they have been keeping some disagreement / unliked elements for years because the act was positively hyped, so it was hard to go against the general opinion, that's why this kind of movements are always so brutal.
Overall though, there isn't that much more to look for in order to understand why his sales aren't as big as his expected status - he has never been able to really cross over the main audience globally, it's as simple as that. Basically, outside of the US all his albums combined haven't sold more than Blunt's Back to Bedlam alone, this says it all!
As a singer who started from a popular boy band, Justin Timberlake is doing pretty well. He has surpassed total EAS of N'Sync and has stayed relevant as a solo artist for 16 years and counting.
Well, I really couldnt think of any music artist who started with a popular group and became a successful solo artist and stayed relevant with that span of time and counting.
He has longevity but...
My big issue with JT is that he doesnt seem to really focus on his music career. I mean I know creating music is not about sales but sales make good measurement of one's success and popularity. He doesnt seem to also care about keeping his fans intact.
Look at the time gap between his albums.
His 1st album was released in 2002 which sold well but it took him four years to release his 2nd album (2006) which sold better than his 1st album.
He could have taken advantage of his popularity. But what he did was the opposite.
So after a long 7 years, he releases his 3rd album (2013). And then it took him another 5 years to release his 4th album (2018)
Hi RLAAMJR!
Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Sting, Lionel Richie, etc. I'm sure they all disagree with you 😉
OUTSOLD britney spears since he was released as solo artist. The sales of justified are more than britney's self titled album.... I don't understand how people here can say that JT neve had a huge success besides he dominated 2006-2007.
Any album from Bruno and Bieber had the same sales as Futuresex/Lovesounds sold
Gabriel,
You are wrong. Justified didnt sell more than "Britney". Britney self title album sold 10.1 million copies while Justified 8.5 million. Justin is nowhere near as big as Britney was.
Not quite 😉
Britney (2001) - 10,110,000 pure - 13,047,000 CSPC
Justified (2002) - 8,550,000 pure - 11,247,000 CSPC
In fact, even "In the Zone" surpasses "Justified" in terms of CSPC despite having three singles!
4 minutes in madonna's popularity analysis has 5,050,000
4 minutes in justin's popularity analysis has 5,150,000
both digital sales
which one is the right one?
or has 4 minutes sold 100k during august 2017(madonna analysis) and february 2018 (justin analysis)?
Hi Marc!
As you may have seen through the various articles / updates formulas are constantly improved with newly identified data so in case of updated figures you should always rely on the most recent one!
Britney was released in 2001,Justin was still in *NSYNC.He out sold Britney since he went solo
honey britney has him beat with nearly doyble the album sales in total. dont get brave, loser
