Timberlake Hits Big With 'End of Time'
October 10, 2007, 4:30 PM ET
Susan Visakowitz, N.Y.
Justin Timberlake's "Until the End of Time" enjoys a 41-28 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, making him
the first solo male artist this decade to spawn six top 40 hits from the same album. The album in question, "FutureSex/LoveSounds" (Jive), was released in September 2006.
The last solo male artist to accomplish the feat was Michael Jackson, whose album "Dangerous" produced seven such hits from 1991-93. Shania Twain's "Come On Over," which had six top 40 Hot 100 hits from 1997-99, was the last album overall to reach the same heights.
"There are very few artists in the industry that can cover all the bases the way Justin does," says Jive/Zomba executive VP of promotion Joe Riccitelli. "If you look at the songs from 'FutureSex' that have topped the chart, you go from 'Summer Love,' which is pure pop-driven, to 'SexyBack,' which was groundbreaking from a production standpoint."
A new version of "Until the End of Time," which features Beyonce in a duet with Timberlake, was released to radio on Sept. 27 and helped give the track a jump in the last week, but the song was already on the move, having hit the top five on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with last week's issue (Oct. 13).
Link: http://www.billboard.com/