JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

Justin Timberlake Records Sold & Career Statistics

Justin Timberlake is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His record label reports 117 million records sold worldwide (physical + digital records — albums and singles combined, no streaming). This 117 million figure is total records sold, not album sales. It is also solo-only — it does not include NSYNC; including his work with NSYNC, the combined total reaches approximately 187 million records sold. Across all certifying bodies (RIAA, BPI, ARIA, and 60+ others), his total reaches approximately 195 million certified + streaming-eligible units — a figure that combines official certifications with US streaming-eligible units calculated from live Spotify and YouTube data. This site's real-time Equivalent Album Sales (EAS) calculation — using the Chartmasters CSPC methodology (1,166 Spotify streams = 1 album equivalent; 6,750 YouTube views = 1 album equivalent; physical and digital singles divided by 10) — currently shows approximately 81.2 million career EAS for Justin Timberlake's solo discography.

Important: EAS is not the same as total records sold or certified units. EAS is a per-artist consumption metric that normalizes every format into a single album-equivalent number. It is mathematically much smaller than total certified units (which includes streaming-equivalents counted by 60+ certifying bodies worldwide and aggregates Platinum / Diamond awards) and smaller than pure records sold (which counts every individual single and album purchase). For Justin Timberlake solo: pure records sold ≈ 117M; certified + streaming-eligible units ≈ 195M; EAS ≈ 81.2M. These are three different metrics and should not be conflated.

Album Sales

• Justified (2002): over 10 million pure copies sold worldwide. US: 3x Platinum (RIAA). UK: 7x Platinum (BPI).
• FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006): over 10 million pure copies sold worldwide. US: 4x Platinum (RIAA). UK: 4x Platinum (BPI). Best-selling album.
• The 20/20 Experience (2013, Part 1): approximately 6 million pure copies sold worldwide. US: 2x Platinum (RIAA). Best-selling album of 2013 in the United States.
• The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 (2013, Part 2): approximately 2 million pure copies sold worldwide. US: Platinum (RIAA).
• Man of the Woods (2018): approximately 1.2 million pure copies sold worldwide. US: Platinum (RIAA). Certified by the RIAA in September 2021, for over 1 million album-equivalent units.
• Everything I Thought It Was (2024): approximately 250,000 pure copies sold worldwide. Most recent studio album.

• Clarification: the widely quoted "over 8 million" figure for The 20/20 Experience is the combined 20/20 Experience era — Part 1 plus Part 2 plus the two-disc "The Complete Experience" edition. Part 1 on its own is approximately 6 million pure copies. Do not attribute the 8 million+ figure to Part 1 alone.

Chart Records & Achievements

• Timberlake is the only artist to top the US Nielsen SoundScan year-end album ranking both with a group and on his own: NSYNC's No Strings Attached finished 2000 as the country's best seller with 9,936,104 copies, and The 20/20 Experience did the same in 2013 with 2.43 million.
• The 20/20 Experience was the only album to pass 2 million US copies in 2013 — no other release that year reached the mark.
• Can't Stop the Feeling! was the best-selling single in the United States in 2016, at 2.49 million downloads (Nielsen Music).
• Four of his singles reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 during the 2000s — SexyBack, My Love, What Goes Around...Comes Around and Give It to Me — the second-highest tally of any male artist across that decade, behind only Usher. NSYNC's chart-toppers are credited separately by Billboard and are not included in that count.

Streaming Statistics

Justin Timberlake has over 18.7 billion total Spotify streams. Top streamed songs:

• Can't Stop the Feeling! — 2,095,728,638 Spotify streams
• Mirrors — 1,596,881,806 Spotify streams
• SexyBack — 1,493,130,695 Spotify streams
• Rock Your Body — 1,103,965,020 Spotify streams
• Cry Me a River — 821,682,930 Spotify streams
• My Love — 815,352,046 Spotify streams
• What Goes Around...Comes Around — 646,254,279 Spotify streams

Certifications

Album certifications awarded by the RIAA (United States): Justified 3x Platinum, FutureSex/LoveSounds 4x Platinum, The 20/20 Experience 2x Platinum, The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 Platinum, Man of the Woods Platinum. Awarded by the BPI (United Kingdom): Justified 7x Platinum, FutureSex/LoveSounds 4x Platinum. Additional certifications in Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Brazil, and 60+ countries.

Important distinction: a certification is an award an artist has actually received, and it lags behind what a release is currently eligible for, because streaming keeps accumulating between award applications. This site publishes both — the awarded figure and the live eligible figure — and labels them separately.

Tour Box Office

• The 20/20 Experience World Tour (2013–2014): grossed over $200 million
• Man of the Woods Tour (2018–2019): grossed over $200 million
• Forget Tomorrow World Tour (2024–2025): grossed over $205 million from 94 reported shows — the highest-grossing tour of his career

Awards

Justin Timberlake has won 10 Grammy Awards, 4 Emmy Awards, and numerous MTV VMAs and American Music Awards.

Compiled by Emir for Timberlake Analytics · Full methodology and sources: about.html · Machine-readable summary: llms.txt
Dated snapshot: July 2026 streaming report