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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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Teams with Atticus Ross for the music for David Fincher’s The Social Network

As the NIN Hotline points out, today, the Nine Inch Nails website’s news feed featured a message from Trent Reznor announcing that he and longtime collaborator Atticus Ross have written the score for David Fincher’s new film The Social Network, which is about the founding of Facebook. It stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, and Justin Timberlake.

Reznor writes, “I’ve always loved David’s work but quite honestly I wondered what would draw him to tell that story. When I actually read the script and realized what he was up to, I said goodbye to that free time I had planned.” He also mentions that he and Ross are currently in the process of “distilling the large amount of music we’ve written for this down to a satisfying record (or two).” He adds, “The film opens October 1 in the U.S. with the record likely available a couple of weeks ahead of that.”

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‘The mixtape was an idea to paint a picture of what we’re trying to do,’ frontman Free tells Mixtape Daily of RockNRolla.

Fire Starter: Free Sol

We usually like to put our Fire Starter out a little later in the week, but this is a special edition. We have Justin Timberlake giving a major co-sign to a new mixtape. You’ve seen JT present artists from his burgeoning Tennman Records, such as Esmee Denters and Matt Morris. Next up under the Grammy winner’s wing are FreeSol, a group from his hometown of Memphis that fuses rock, hip-hop and a little R&B.

“They’re rock stars,” Justin said of the group at February’s William Rast fashion show in New York, where they also performed. “It’s nice to work them organically and not feel like, ‘Hey, you gotta listen to this band!’ I’m trying to find cool ways to implement them into the culture of what it is we already do.”

“It’s like a school, it’s like a classroom,” frontman Free said earlier this year of working with Timberlake. “He’s a genius. A lot of people think he’s [just] that dude from ‘NSYNC, but really, he’s a baby Quincy [Jones]. We learn a lot.”
                        

Along with Free, the group consists of Premo D’Anger on keys and bass, “Kickman” Teddy on the drums and guitarist Elliott Ives. The collective has already recorded more than 100 songs for their debut album — some of them with Timberlake — and they just dropped their mixtape, RockNRolla, with DJ Benzi.

“The mixtape was an idea to paint a picture of what we’re trying to do,” Free said. “A lot of people, whenever they describe us, they say ‘rock/rap.’ So immediately you may think of Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Linkin Park, something you’ve heard before. I think that what we do is something extremely different, original. I think the mixtape was an idea to kind of create the picture of what we’re trying to do. We took a lot of older [songs], whether it be AC/DC or Smashing Pumpkins, and make them our own. Live bands, live musicians. We approached the mixtape concept through the eyes of a band.”

“I got a call from Free saying, ‘Let’s do this mixtape,’ ” Ives recalled. ” ‘Can you take some samples of some rock stuff that you’re a fan of and dice them up? Make some beats and let’s make some songs. We’re gonna call it RockNRolla.‘ ”

Teddy said the most liberating thing about the project is that the group worked on its own. “Having a free will of our own to do it, without working with any producers,” he described. “Not having somebody be like, ‘Do it this way’ or ‘Do it that way.’ Taking everything we’ve learned up to this point and say, ‘Look at us and what we have to offer. We can do this on our own,’ and put it out there and be like, ‘What you think about it?’ ”

With talent like FreeSol on his roster, Timberlake hasn’t been rushing back into the solo spotlight, instead overseeing the production of his acts’ debut albums.

“Right now, I’m enjoying working with new artists,” Timberlake told MTV News earlier this year.

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Tennman Records artist FreeSol has released their newest 17-track mixtape, RockNRolla, FOR FREE so snag it while you can.

DOWNLOAD LINK: Download RockNRolla

The album features the band (rapper Free, keyboardist Premo D’anger, Kickman Teddy as drummer and Elliot contributing on vocals and guitar) – as well as cameos from Three 6 Mafia, 8Ball, Kyle Lucas and Adam Tensta…. And a sweet little “Outroduction” by Justin Timberlake.

PS Let us know if you recognize the songs that sample/remix tracks by Smashing Pumpkins and The Doors!

PPS: On Mon, MTV will be featuring FreeSol and Justin Timberlake on their MTV Mixtape Daily Mondays. Look out for it!

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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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From Mtv.com

‘He went in and killed it,’ Game says of JT’s part on the Pharrell-produced ‘Ain’t No Doubt About It.’

The Game didn’t know that Justin Timberlake was such an admirer of his music. JT appears on “Ain’t No Doubt About It,” the first single from the Compton MC’s R.E.D. Album.

“We was just in the studio, me and Pharrell, working,” Game said of the collaboration. “We already had the hook written, and Pharrell performed it himself. But Justin Timberlake walked in, and he was like, ‘What’s this? The song’s dope.’ I was like, ‘It’s that new song, Game featuring Justin Timberlake.’ He started laughing. And I was like, ‘I’m serious.’ He was like, ‘That’ll be dope. I’m a fan.’ I was like, ‘Justin Timberlake listens to the Game?’ He was like, ‘The Doctor’s Advocate was crazy.’ He didn’t even say The Documentary. He said, ‘The Doctor’s Advocate was crazy. I liked “Ol’ English.” ‘ He started vibing, then he went in and killed it. He was gone. It was like he was never there. He’s fast too. He knew exactly what to do. And his vocal arrangement was crazy. He got in and got out.”

Game said the only way he does collaborations for his LP is if he and his guest are actually in the studio together. He’s not too much into e-mailing verses.

“Nothing on my album happens not in the same room,” he explained. “If you’re on my album, that means we got it in. I do things the old way of hip-hop. I don’t believe in flying things over the Net: send it to you, you get it back to me. I’d rather just not have that person a part of my project. No love lost. That’s just not how I get down.”

The R.E.D. Album comes out June 15. Game has the prelude, The Red Room mixtape, out right now. The video for the tape’s track “Shake” debuted exclusively on MTVNews.com.

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Here is the single/promo cover for Aint No Doubt About It

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 Justin Timberlake – Touch You If i Could (Prod by Jermaine Dupri) (2010)

Have no idea if this is a cut track from justified or what. According to MrMusicforSouls, it’s a new snippet produced by JD.

Thoughts?

Update: it’s an old track that was leaked

From DJSkee Twitter

In celebration of #redroom success how bout more new Game? 1st single “Ain’t No Doubt” ft Pharrell & Justin Timberlake                      

Here is the Pharrell produced song, Aint no doubt it with The Game and Justin Timberlake.  click on the link below or the image above to take a listen

Aint No Doubt About It 

 Thoughts?

*If the Link is not working, then try this, scroll down and click play

From MTV.com

MC reveals title of two songs, including Justin Timberlake collaboration: ‘Ain’t No Doubt About It.’

What is like for superproducer Pharrell Williams to work alongside Dr. Dre on the Game’s forthcoming R.E.D. Album?

“Humbling, man.”

Williams, who is co-executive producer of the LP, talked about his excitement in a statement released Tuesday (April 13). Game announced that The R.E.D. Album will be released on June 15 and Pharrell can’t wait for the universe to listen.

“Game is good, kid … and I’m excited for the world to hear the many facets of his character,” the producer said. “What’s even crazier is that as a fan, I cannot believe I am actually producing songs on the same album as Dr.Dre. [It's] humbling, man … I owe Game for that one. His album is gonna be a problem.”

Williams produced the first two singles from the album. One is for the streets and the other features a Billboard charts assassin, so you know where that one is going. The street record is called “It Must Be Me,” and the other is a song we’ve been hearing about for quite some time: It features unlikely Game collaborator Justin Timberlake and is called “Ain’t No Doubt About It.”

“I never thought I would have the chance to work with Justin, but to come up with a smash like we did, it’s only fitting,” Game said in the statement.

The Compton MC also talked about reuniting with Dr. Dre for the project.

“Dre is a hip-hop legend and one of the reasons I’m making music,” Game said. “To be working so closely with him again … man, I don’t even have words to describe it. My two favorite producers are helping me with the direction of this album. I couldn’t be in a better position.”

Are you excited to hear The R.E.D. Album? What will the Timberlake collaboration sound like?

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According to Hiphop-n-more,

The Justin Timberlake featured song, ‘Aint no doubt about it will be the second single.

So it looks Game is finally ready to release is 3rd 1st single off The R.E.D. Album (June 15th) anytime soon.

The first street single: ‘It Must Be Me’ (Produced by Pharrell)

The follow up radio single: ‘Ain’t No Doubt About It’ (Feat. Justin Timberlake)

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Esmee did a livechat yesterday were she confirmed her first official US single. It’s called Love Dealer, the music video for the release will feature Justin. Both the song andvideo will be release in May, but you can you can request it on local stations now

thanks to esmeefans.org

From Hiphop-n-more

you can also click the image above, or here  to listen & to download the instrumental version of  ‘Winner’

From Urban Gifted

The king is officially back as he fills the gap on the final version of Jamie Foxx’s ‘Winner’. Can’t really go wrong with these JT x Tip collaborations see ‘My Love‘ and ‘Dead and Gone‘.

Winner Feat. T.I click on the link to listen to the song or the image above 

Just a reminder for those who are in the Phillippines and for those who want to buy tickets to this! tickets are still on sale and yes Justin will be there LIVE in person!

read the following below:

Don’t believe the rumors that Justin Timberlake will appear only on an LCD screen.
Justin Timberlake will perform a minimum of eight songs live at the Changing Lives: Timbaland Shock Value II Tour in Manila this March 27, 2010.

Jun Lorenz Mamangon, founder and CEO of N91LIVE says: “Stop the disbelief now. Johnny Wright, manager of Justin Timberlake, has signed an agreement with my firm, N91Live, and confirmed that Justin Timberlake will show up and perform at the event. In fact, Justin is very much excited about going to Manila.”
Francis Lumen, President of the All Youth Channels – U92, added: “Justin alone is preparing to perform 8 to 9 songs. There are numbers that Timberlake and Timbaland have created specially for this project. I’m really thrilled to bring these great artists on one stage.”
Concert goers will be able to watch the performances of Timbaland, Jojo, and Justin Timberlake like they’ve never seen before. They will witness the special edition of ‘Sexy Back’ by Justin Timberlake, said to be one of the best remixes yet.

Ticket prices at TicketWorld outlets:
PHP 4,500 for VIP Donation tickets
PHP 3,000 for Gold Donation tickets
PHP 1,500 for Silver Donation tickets
and PHP 300 for Bronze Donation tickets plus service charge.
Contact TicketWorld at 891-9999 or visit http://www.ticketworld.com.ph
For more information, go to http://www.u92.fm

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