Justin Timberlake tweeted a special message to his fans Wednesday for their  support of ‘The 20/20 Experience.’ ‘Numbers go up, numbers go down. I just hope  this album makes your summer. You already made mine #bestfansever.’

Justin Timberlake is doing a celebratory song and dance about his album  sales.

“The 20/20 Experience” hit nearly one million in its first week and  Timberlake is so extremely proud that it’s left him searching for the right  words to express it.

“Whoa … Speechless. Shocked,” he tweeted Wednesday.

The album, Timberlake’s first in six years, sold 968,000 units making it his  best solo debut ever and he gives all the credit to his fans.

“Numbers go up, numbers go down. I just hope this album makes your summer,” he continued. “You already made mine #bestfansever.”

Not only did the project top Timberlake’s musical efforts but it’s succeeded  any other album’s opening week this year including Grammy-winning Mumford and  Sons.

Timberlake’s hosting stint on Saturday Night Live and weeklong residency on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” in early March could have definitely helped in  generating mass appeal for “Experience.” Not to mention releasing his hit songs “Suit & Tie” with Jay-Z and “Mirrors.”

This record not only debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts but it beat his  last album’s sales by a long shot. In 2006, JT brought sexy back with “FutureSex/LoveSounds,” which sold 684,000 in comparison to his current body of  work coming in just shy of a million.

To keep the interest going and growing and in an effort to show gratitude to  his fans, the singer hinted at a special surprise coming soon.

“I’m gonna find a way to show my appreciation to you ladies and gents this  week … Stay tuned. #finderskeepers,” he added.

E! Online speculated that it could be a good old game of scavenger hunt for  tickets to his highly anticipated “Legends of Summer” tour with Hov.

In case you had any doubt, Billboard has made it official: Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience will debut at #1 when the albums chart is released Wednesday.

That part was inevitable. The real question was whether the singer, who has kept fans waiting since 2006 for a new album, would be able to sell 1 million records in the first week. This has become a nearly impossible feat in the digital download age, but Taylor Swift accomplished it in October, moving 1.2 million units of her album Red, giving Swift the highest first-week album sales in a decade. Surely Justin Timberlake could dethrone her?

Well, according to Nielsen SoundScan, it was not meant to be. The 20/20 Experience moved 968,000 copies. Though it’s not a milli, the figure is still impressive: Billboard said it is the 19th-largest week for an album since SoundScan started tracking data in 1991.

Proving that JT has been on top for a while, the champs for the all-time best-selling week are from Timberlake’s past life, when a little group called ‘NSYNC dropped an album titled No Strings Attached. Back on April 8, 2000, that album sold 2.42 million copies and easily reached #1 on the Billboard 200. (‘NSYNC, by the way, released their debut album 15 years ago.)

Justin will get another chance to dominate the charts when Volume 2 of The 20/20 Experience is released. But as ubiquitous as the singer was leading up to the first volume, what else is left for him to do?

Keith Caulfield, associate director of charts/retail for Billboard magazine, told MTV News earlier this week that Justin had made all the right moves. “He’s not really doing anything wrong and, in fact, has done everything right,” Caulfield said of the media blitz around the album. “He’s been very careful in the kind of promotion he’s done for the album, and it’s paid off.”

Just last week, Timberlake released the video for “Mirrors,” the second clip from the album, an emotional piece different enough from “Suit & Tie” to get even more people onboard The 20/20 Experience.