Billboard 200: Justin Timberlake Debuts with LOWEST First-Week Sales of His Career with ‘Everything I Thought It Was’

Published: Sunday 24th Mar 2024 by Sam

Justin Timberlake unleashed his latest studio album ‘Everything I Thought It Was’ last week and has been pounding the promotional pavement in support of the project.

Preceded by the single ‘Selfish,’ the LP has also been pushed by way of follow-up effort ‘No Angels.’

Now, the first-week numbers are in. Find out how the project has fared commercially.

With the sales tallied and verified, ‘Everything I Thought It Was’ premiered at #4 on the Billboard 200 with 67,000 units.

Of that sum, pure sales comprise 41,000, while 24,000 units were amassed by way of 31.13 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs.

With that, JT registers the lowest first-week sales of his career. He also tallies the lowest charting album of his career to date.

Here’s how his previous releases stack up (first-week sales and placement):

‘Justified’ (2002) – 439,000 copies | #2‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’ (2006) –  684,000 copies | #1‘The 20/20 Experience’ (2013) – 968,000 copies | #1‘The 20/20 Experience / 2 of 2’ (2013) –  350,000 copies | #1‘Man of the Woods’ (2018) – 293,000 | #1

Interestingly, the less-than-towering final sum comes after Timberlake mounted a strong retail effort, offering up various iterations of vinyl and store exclusives.