Justin Timberlake's 'The 20/20 Experience' Was 2013's Best Selling Album

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Justin Timberlake's '20/20' 2013's Best Selling Album, 'Blurred Lines' Top Song
by Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles
January 02, 2014


Justin Timberlake's 'The 20/20 Experience' and Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines' finish 2013 as the year's top selling album and song in the United States, respectively, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Timberlake's '20/20', which was released on March 19, sold 2.43 million in 2013 and is the only album that sold more than 2 million copies this past year.



'20/20' is also the smallest-selling year-end No. 1 album since SoundScan began tracking music sales in 1991. Previously, the SoundScan-era low was set in 2008, when Lil Wayne's 'Tha Carter III' was the top seller, with 2.87 million.

('20/20' and 'Tha Carter III' are the only year-end SoundScan No. 1 albums to finish a year with less than 3 million.)

The 2013 sales tracking year began on Dec. 31, 2012 ended on Dec. 29, 2013.







2013's second-biggest selling album is Eminem's 'The Marshall Mathers LP 2', with 1.73 million. It's the sixth time Eminem has placed an album among a year's top 10 sellers. In 2010, he owned the No. 1 album of the year with 'Recovery' (3.41 million), while he was also the champ of 2002 with 'The Eminem Show' (7.61 million).

He also finished among the top 10 in 2009 (No. 9 with 'Relapse'), 2004 (No. 3 with 'Encore') and 2000 (No. 2 with 'The Marshall Mathers LP').





Luke Bryan's 'Crash My Party' is 2013's third-biggest album, with 1.52 million sold.

It's the highest-ranked year-end album by a male country artist since 1992, when Billy Ray Cyrus' 'Some Gave All' and Garth Brooks' 'Ropin' the Wind' finished as that year's Nos. 1 and 2 albums (4.83 million and 4.10 million, respectively).







Adele's '21' was the top selling album in 2011 and 2012.

The album sold 5.82 million in 2011 and 4.41 million in 2012.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/ne...lines-top-song

[Race's Girl]

OMG, Justin Timberlake is well fit