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We are bombarded with images of impeccably dressed men from day to day in magazines, on the Internet and blazing across our television screens, but what Fashionoliahave done is compiled our very own ‘Best Dressed’ list so you don’t have to. We have scoured the high and lows of celebrity dressing and have brought together what we think are the top ten best dressed males in celebville. Some may be well-known, some may be new faces but each man has one thing in common…a fabulous sense of style!

Justin Timberlake is a singer turned successful fashion designer with his clothing line William Rast and is placed at No.2 in our list. Since his days with N Sync, the boy-band back in the 90′s, Justin’s style has evolved into a mix of urban and kooky. The singer/designer likes to wear his geek inspired glasses and suits with a twist. On days off Justin is at home with skinny jeans, a vintage t-shirt and a beaten leather jacket. When he is performing on stage the singer likes to mix it up and wear superstar bling with cool one of pieces designed especially for him.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ — VH1 goes back to its music roots and revisits the age-old question: “Who is the greatest music artist for all time?” Determined by a poll of well-known music artists and music experts in the industry, VH1 will reveal this definitive (and sure-to-be highly controversial) list declaring who is the greatest of the great. Hosted by Jim Shearer (VH1’s “Top 20 Video Countdown“), the 4-night special, VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of All Time,” premieres Monday, September 6 at 10/9c with a 2-hour premiere.

This definitive countdown covers all genres of music – from rock to pop to rap to metal – to answer who is worthy to possess the title as “the greatest music artist of all time.” Over the 200 musicians including Alicia Keys, Ozzy Osbourne, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Iggy Pop, Nas, Rob Halford (Judas Priest), Geddy Lee (Rush), Alex Lifeson (Rush), Michael Diamond (Beastie Boys), Daryl Hall, John Oates, Noel Gallagher (Oasis), Gene Simmons (KISS), Adam Levine (Maroon Five), 50 Cent, Nelly Furtado, Mandy Moore, Carrie Underwood, Adam Clayton (U2) and many more voted on who they believe deserves this highly coveted title.

In 1998, VH1 launched the same list as the channel’s first countdown special; however; much has changed since the dawn of the new millennium. VH1 puts this debate up for a vote again to see which rock pioneers still matter and which new acts rate in the age of download-to-own music and ever-changing pop culture. The countdown will include special, rarely-seen performance footage along with brand new, totally original interviews with music’s most famous faces including interviews by Adele, Backstreet Boys, Brandy, Bret Michaels, Chris Daughtry, Hall & Oates, Keane, Ozzy Osbourne, Ray J, Sheryl Crow, Usher, Whitney Houston and many more.

TheGreatest.VH1.com will have exclusive extras including interviews and commentary. Additionally, online visitors will be able to participate by using VH1’s voting tool that allows users to pick their favorite artists, weigh in their opinions and socially broadcast their take on the list through Twitter.com and Facebook.com.

“VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time” List

TOP 5, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

1.  The Beatles

2.  Bob Dylan

3.  Michael Jackson

4.  Led Zeppelin

5.  Rolling Stones

66. Justin Timberlake

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Below is Nymag.com’s pick of the most anticipated films (Fall)

1. I’m Still Here
Casey Affleck directed this absolutely true documentary (wink, wink) about Joaquin Phoenix trading acting for rap music. It’s “a portrait of an artist at a crossroads,” says Magnolia Pictures. We say it’s a crock, but possibly a fun one. Sept. 10.

2. Never Let Me Go
Three children growing up in a cloistered English boarding school, only to discover they are clones raised for organ replacement. Carey Mulligan and a deglamorized Keira Knightley star in the Mark Romanek–directed film, based on the Kazuo Ishiguro novel. Sept. 15.

3. The Town
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), Rebecca Hall (Please Give), and Jon Hamm give already buzzed-about performances in Ben Affleck’s second directorial effort, a heist pic set, once again, in working-class Boston. Sept. 17.

4. Jack Goes Boating
Philip Seymour Hoffman directs himself as a dreadlocked limo driver whose friends (theater vets John Ortiz and Daphne Rubin-Vega) set him up on a heartbreakingly awkward date with a damaged sweetheart (Amy Ryan). Based on Bob Glaudini’s play. Sept. 17.

5. Catfish
The breakout documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman follow Schulman’s 24-year-old brother Nev as he strikes up a disturbing Facebook relationship. Sept. 17.

6. Enter the Void
Auteur-provocateur Gaspar Noé (Irreversible) creates a Technicolor dream riot in which a dead junkie wanders the sex-drenched streets of Tokyo. The must-see foreign film of the fall. Sept. 17.

7. The Social Network
Jesse Eisenberg plays the Harvard kid who may (or may not) have ripped off the idea for a company loosely based on Facebook. Written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by David Fincher, and co-starring Justin Timberlake and Hollywood’s next Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield. Start your updates now. Oct. 1.

8. Nowhere Boy
The film covers the troubled relations between the soon-to-be Beatle John Lennon (Kick-Ass’s Aaron Johnson), the mother who abandoned him, and the aunt who raised him (Kristin Scott Thomas). But the juicier story may be offscreen: Director Sam Taylor-Wood, 43, just gave birth to a daughter with Johnson, 20. Oct. 8.

9. It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson, Sugar) direct a comic Cuckoo’s Nest about a depressive teen (Keir Gilchrist) stuck in an asylum with an odd young woman (Emma Roberts) and a mental-home vet (Zach Galifianakis). Oct. 8.

10. Conviction
The true story of a high-school dropout (Hilary Swank) who’ll do anything to prove the innocence of her bad-news brother, played by the always-worth-seeing Sam Rockwell. Think of it as Erin Brockovich meets The Shawshank Redemption. Oct. 15

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and the results are in… check them out below!

14. Justin Timberlake

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Your iPod hasn’t felt love until Snoop’s been up in it. Download these three-song playlists below to cover the evolution of Snoop Dogg from streetwise ‘hood star to party-starting pop star.

8. “Signs” (2004) featuring Justin Timberlake and Charlie Wilson.

You read that right — Snoop collaborated with the former N*Sync-er and the former Gap Band leader on a big dance hit.

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#4 Justin Timberlake

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The sun is shining, the beaches are crowded and the bodies are tanned, which can only mean one thing — Summer 2010 is in full swing. To celebrate the return of our favorite season, we’ve scoured the Billboard chart archives and compiled this definitive list of the most popular songs about summer ever recorded.

These 30 hot tunes with summer-specific themes are ranked based on each track’s performance on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from August 4, 1958 — the inception of the chart — through the chart dated July 3, 2010. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least. (For more details on how this chart was compiled, scroll to the bottom of this page.)

How This Chart Was Created

The ranking is based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least. Prior to the Hot 100’s implementation in 1991 of enhanced radio and sales information from Nielsen BDS and Nielsen SoundScan, songs had shorter reigns at No. 1 and shorter chart lives. To ensure equitable representation, earlier time frames were each weighted to account for the difference between turnover rates from those decades and the turnover rates that have occurred since the advent of Nielsen Music data.

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Geeks are definitely having their moment. In a 24/7 wired world, where knowledge is the currency of the day, it pays to be clever, smart and passionate — and to look good doing it

This summer, StyleList and AOL are saluting geeks, those people who know who they are and aren’t afraid to let the world know it. We’re talking people like Tina Fey, Justin Timberlake, Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, and Kristen Bell, who have all made it cool not only to be smart, but to look the part, too.

AOL will present the Geek Awards in Los Angeles Aug. 18, when we will celebrate the people who geek out over the things they love the most. (Watch the pre-show live on PopEater.com.) Until then, look for stories on StyleList explaining the finer points of geek chic, or taking a hardcore look at the science behind some of beauty and fashion’s most ingenious ideas.

#2 Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake has come a long way since his days as a Mouseketeer on Disney’s “The All New Mickey Mouse Club.” And while he had teenage girls swooning as the curly, blonde-haired, blue-eyed member of *NSYNC, we always knew that deep down inside of J.T. existed a geek.

With the 29-year-old singer-actor set to bring Sean Parker (co-founder of Napster and former President of Facebook) to life on the big screen this fall in “The Social Network,” we sure hope he won’t ditch the bow ties, blazers, and dark specs we’ve grown to love him wear.

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Last Year, Robert Pattinson was named the Sexiest Man of 2009 – this year we’re asking you to choose your favourite. Will Rob keep his crown? You decide     

#44 Justin Timberlake
Age: 29
Single? Justin’s been dating actress Jessica Biel for quite some time. Sorry ladies, you’ll have to keep dreaming for now.
See Him Next: If you fancy something serious, catch Timberlake in drama The Social Network, or, if you want to loll yourself into a stupor, wait to see the singing star play Boo Boo in the new Yogi Bear movie, which is out at the end of the year. No, we’re not joking.
Click here to vote for Justin!

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Staying relevant in Hollywood requires more than just a killer role or a strong set of pipes. A-listers are lending their names, images and hard work to products and endeavors that expand their brand and boost their bank accounts. USA TODAY hands out grades to the stars who are hard at work growing their empires.

Justin Timberlake, 29

Multi-tasking grade:  A+. A true jack-of-all-trades.
Primary career: Singer
Side jobs: Actor, fashion designer, spokesmodel, restaurateur, golf course owner, liquor creator
Working it: Since going solo in 2002 with his multiplatinum debut album, Justified, the curly-haired wonder has become a one-man brand. He and best friend/business partner Trace Ayala launched New York restaurant Southern Hospitality in 2007, and last year, he released his own brand of tequila, called 901 after the area code of his hometown, Memphis. He returned to Tennessee last summer to open an eco-friendly golf course and has shown his William Rast line of men’s and women’s apparel for several seasons at New York Fashion Week. He continues to make a name for himself as an actor and multi-tasker, winning two Emmys for his work on Saturday Night Live, starring opposite ex-girlfriend Cameron Diaz in Shrek Forever After and the upcoming Bad Teacher, and last week launching a new women’s perfume for fashion house Givenchy.

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18. Timbaland featuring Justin Timberlake, “Carry Out,” 1,684,000.
This was the fourth big hit on which these stars have teamed, following Timberlake’s “SexyBack,” Timbaland’s “Give It To Me” (which also featured Nelly Furtado) and 50 Cent’s “Ayo Technology” (on which they were both featured). “Carry Out” sold an additional 185K copies in 2009. Peak: #11.

You can never count anyone out in pop music. Train, a San Francisco-based group that hadn’t so much as cracked the top 40 since 2003, has the best-selling song of the first half of 2010 with “Hey, Soul Sister.” The unassuming but widely pleasing pop song sold 3,319,000 copies in the first six months of the year. Its success marks a major comeback for the group, which first hit the big time in 2001 with its top five, Grammy-winning song “Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me).” By 2005, the group was barely on the radar, with two songs that died “Bubbling Under” the Hot 100. The group’s leader, Pat Monahan, tried a solo album in 2007, but its key single, “Her Eyes,” also stalled in “Bubbling Under.”

Lady Antebellum’s Need You Now is the best-selling album of the first six months, with sales of 2,292,000. The heartfelt title track is the #3 song of the period. The country trio and Usher are the only acts with both a song and an album in the top five at mid-year. Lady A won its first Grammy in January with “I Run To You,” a track from its 2008 debut album. “Need You Now” is so perfectly in tune with Grammy voters’ tastes that I’ll be stunned if it’s not nominated for Record and Song of the Year when the nominations are revealed in December.

The Need You Now album topped the 2 million mark in the week ending May 9. That was nearly six months earlier in the year than any album topped the 2 million mark in 2009 sales. Michael Jackson’s Number Ones was the first album to sell 2 million copies last year. It did so in the week ending Oct. 25.

B.o.B is the only lead artist with two of the top 10 songs of the first six months. “Airplanes” (featuring Hayley Williams of Paramore) is #7. “Nothin’ On You” (featuring Bruno Mars) is #8. Given what a big hit “Nothin’ On You” was, it’s remarkable that B.o.B’s follow-up has already pulled even with it in sales and will far surpass it.

Ke$ha is the only lead artist with three of the top 20 songs of the first six months. It’s sweet vindication for Ke$ha, whose featured credit on Flo Rida’s 2009 smash “Right Round” was taken away midway through the song’s six-week run at #1. That must have been disappointing for Ke$ha, but she has moved on, to say the least. “TiK ToK” is #4 for the first six months, “Your Love Is My Drug” is #14 and “Blah Blah Blah” (featuring 3OH!3) is #17.

Fully 11 of the top 20 songs of the first six months are collaborations. The most successful collabo was “OMG” by Usher featuring will.i.am, which ranks #5.

Eminem’s current album Recovery sold enough copies (741,000) in just one week to enable it to rank #8 for the first six months. That’s a clear sign of two things: the size of Eminem’s following and the weakness of the album market. (The album’s sales total is 744,000. It is credited with 3,000 early sales last week, before the album’s official release date.)

Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber is the only artist with two of the top 10 albums of the first six months. My World 2.0 is #2. Last year’s My World EP is #9. Bieber is one of five artists with both a song and an album in the top 10 at mid-year. He joins Lady Antebellum, Usher, the Black Eyed Peas and Ke$ha.

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     This holiday weekend, we plan on scoping out the hot bods on the beach. But looking good isn’t easy.

               Just ask some the celebs who made it on our list of the most-in-shape men of Hollywood.

 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: He brings Sexy Back with his smooth voice and fluid dance moves. Once a scrawny N’Sync front man, JT  hits the gym six times a week and plays basketball in his spare time

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   Happy 4th!

#25 – Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake)

Number of Followers: 2,455,195 (and still counting)

So long Billionaire Boys Club, say goodbye to the “Most Exclusive Club in the World.” There’s a new, more exclusive stratosphere to puncture: Twitter’s most-followed users. We’ve collected the 140 most popular characters, bloggers, celebrities, athletes, actors and politicians — based on number of followers — in one place.

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For those that don’t know, Philanthropy is the inclination to increase the well-being of humankind.

This generally takes the shape of rich people giving starving children money.   As you’ll know if you saw Live 8, or have been to an Oxjam festival show, music and charitable work often go hand in hand.   But which musicians are the most philanthropic?

Let’s take a look…

5. Justin Timberlake

After capturing the hearts of children through the boyband N*Sync, JT went on to found the imaginatively titled “Justin Timberlake Foundation” which initially funded music education, but now does all kinds of charity work.   One of his biggest charitable endeavours was a celebrity golf tournament, raising millions of dollars for children’s hospitals.

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In anticipation of the 2010 VH1 Hip Hop Honors: The Dirty South, which airs on June 7, Complex and Miss Info have teamed with the network to celebrate this year’s honorees with exclusive coverage.

Timbaland saw the future. That had to be what it was, because arguably no other producer had a more profound effect on the direction of popular music than the Virginia Beach-bred producer. He exploded the aesthetic template to include collapsing polyrhythms, hiccuping babies, and stop-and-go world music samples. He was Jay-Z’s most consistent collaborator, and knocked out a string of hits and classics with his muse, Aaliyah. When she died, he folded that creativity into the world of pop music, knocking out major hits for the likes of Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake. In preparation for the VH1 Hip Hop Honors, Complex looks back on 25 of Timbo’s best beats…

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#10: Justin Timberlake f/ T.I. “My Love”

Released: 2006

One of the more ambitious cuts from Timberlake’s second record, “My Love” is driven by an arpeggiating trance synth and, like the best of Tim’s work, is densely packed with sounds and layers that reveal themselves on further listens. One such understated element in the track: the dismembered and distant female in the background of the hook. Dismembered and distant female vocals are certainly not uncommon in a Timbo beat, but these might be the most dismembered and distant of them all. Also, T.I. raps well.

#5: Justin Timberlake “Cry Me A River”

Released: 2002
The beat-box has always been one of the most valuable weapons in Timbaland’s arsenal; it’s stunning how much flexibility he’s gotten out of manipulated samples of his own voice. With “Cry Me A River,” Timberlake makes Timbaland’s voice box squelches and fakey scratches that line the track seem absolutely emotive and—vice versa—those elements give Justin just enough of an edge to outgrow his boy-band image

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