Talk:Justin Timberlake

Request to update this page

A lot of the information regarding the forming of *NSYNC is inaccurate. A revision that includes more recent books, articles, interviews or even Lance Bass' documentary would rectify this information.

The numbers given for Timberlake's overall album/record sales as well as the stats for *NSYNC sales are at-least a decade old, they are not accurate and could be updated. Even though some of those numbers have not been certified by the RIAA (even those that have are almost a decade and a half old) they have certainly been reported and updated to charts such as Chartmasters, Chart Data and among countless others.

Peer review

Justin Timberlake

I've listed this article for peer review because I would like to take this to GA in the future.

Thanks, RedShellMomentum 00:19, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

VWF

This is a substantial and well-researched article. The main issues before you want to proceed to a GAN are factual precision, currentness, quality of source and too much minor detail. These are my observations and suggestions;

• The lead says The group released four commercially successful albums, becoming one of the best-selling boy bands of all time with sales of over 70 million units worldwide. and Timberlake's first two solo albums, Justified (2002) and FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006), both sold over 10 million copies and received triple platinum certifications from RIAA.
  • Please verify these statements against the cited sources. The NSYNC sales figure and the "four albums" wording should be presented exactly as supported by the source. Worldwide sales must also be separated from U.S. RIAA certifications, that is, give each album's certification individually instead of implying they have identical certifications. The RIAA database should even be used for the certification claims.

"Timberlake enhanced his popularity with an acting career" and "producers … best known for boosting Timberlake's solo career" are promotional and imprecise. Just replace them with neutral wording.

• The lead is not fully current, that is, it summarises the first five studio albums but omits Everything I Thought It Was (2024), despite the album appearing in the discography and the body. Please add a concise sentence covering the sixth album and current career, without importing every minor collaboration or controversy into the lead.
• Correct the 2026 award name. In "2023–present: Everything I Thought It Was", the article says Pharrell Williams received the "Dr. Dre Global Music Icon Award". The Recording Academy calls this the "Dr. Dre Global Impact Award", so please correct the wording and cite the official announcement?.
• The sentence "They stated that the tour had amassed…" also has an unclear antecedent. Replace "They" with "Cowen" or "the report".
• Reduce the chronological catalogue of minor events. Several passages give undue space to speculative or insignificant material, for example;
  • "another possible collaboration was to occur with Lil Wayne"
  • the unproduced adaptation of My Problem with Women
  • long lists of minor collaborations and guest appearances
  • isolated events such as individual television appearances and promotional performances

Please retain the major albums, singles, films, tours, awards, and collaborations, but remove or substantially condense unreleased projects and minor appearances. The discography, filmography, and touring articles can hold exhaustive lists.

• The arrest and subsequent plea are relevant, but the bartender's "one martini" quotation, the extended police quotation, the "ruin the tour" meme, and the Chicago speech give the section excessive detail. You can summarise the arrest, charge, plea, and sentence using a high-quality source like Reuters' report. Clearly distinguish allegations, police statements, and established legal outcomes. If the 2026 body-camera lawsuit remains, state its current procedural status and avoid implying that the allegations have been adjudicated.
• Trim trivial public-image material. The paragraph about "Trousersnake", alleged penis size, the list of Madame Tussauds locations, and the SNL costume display is not proportionate to Timberlake's biography. Please remove it or reduce it to a brief, independently significant discussion of his public image. The Legacy section also contains many rankings, repeated superlatives, and a long list of allegedly influenced artists. Replace the catalogue with a sourced synthesis of his critical and cultural influence.
• Fix the album-count error in "Achievements". The article says: "All five of Timberlake's albums have been certified platinum or better by RIAA". The discography lists six studio albums. Correct the number or specify which five albums are meant. Also date the sales statistics and distinguish worldwide sales from U.S. certifications. The Sony Music UK figures are first-party promotional claims, so they should be attributed instead of used alone to establish superlatives. See.
• Condense "Other ventures" and personal-finance detail. The section gives extensive coverage to restaurants, endorsements, Air Jordan resale prices, real-estate transactions, estimated earnings, and net worth. Most of this is not really central to the biography of JT. Remove or condense material like "resell for upwards of $10,000" and "one of the music industry's wealthiest solo performers" unless reliable independent sources establish clear significance, which you can quote.

The sentence "Timberlake provides celebrity endorsement for many commercial products, this aspect…" is a comma splice so it should be rewritten or even removed.

• I spot-checked some sources: Reuters supports the plea outcome, and the Recording Academy and contemporary reporting support the 2026 performance. But I observed that some claims rely on first-party promotional material, celebrity-news quotations, an Instagram post, EarOne, or 123RF. Replace or qualify these where stronger independent sources are available. The Lyme diagnosis should be attributed to Timberlake and supported with secondary reporting like AP's report. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 10:48, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

@RTSthestardust: Mind helping me with some of these? RedShellMomentum 23:08, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

Yeah sure I'll work on that soon - RTSthestardust (talk) 01:16, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

GA review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Justin Timberlake/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: RedShellMomentum (talk · contribs) 03:28, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

Reviewer: Jishara (talk · contribs) 05:44, 11 October 2026 (UTC)

@RedShellMomentum: interesting article. My review's below. Ping me when you get a chance to make your updates. Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 14:32, 12 October 2026 (UTC)

@Jishara: Everything is done.

Also to note that most GAs and FAs for musicians (e.g. Rihanna, another one of my favorites) have the discography, filmography, and tours sections unsourced. I kept the "future actors Ryan Gosling and Keri Russell" part and removed the images of Bowie and Jackson. I also fixed the avid golfer and "and Marvin Gaye, and he had listening" issues.

Unreliable sources have been axed, but note that AllMusic and Vibe are reliable per WP:A/S. I fixed the sources so they should support what they say now. Alt text has also been added to all the images. RedShellMomentum^{talk that talk to me} 23:55, 12 October 2026 (UTC)

@RedShellMomentum: Good point - it seems like (in Rihanna and others' case) that's per the rule around summaries of content discussed in other areas with sources there. However, some of the ones here with Timberlake (specifically filmography, discography and tours are fine) aren't mentioned at any other spots in-article (for example Inside Llewyn Davis and Runner Runner). Please source all of the ones that aren't mentioned anywhere else in article, at least.

Also ax HuffPost if you can in sources, and I just noticed a stray Is in the 20/20 experience album section in Artistry. Speaking of Artistry doesn't appear to have been updated with any songs since 2013. Ping me when you get a chance to make the updates. Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 01:05, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

@Jishara: I've axed HuffPost and updated Artistry but I can't find where the stray is. RedShellMomentum^{talk that talk to me} 01:41, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

Turns out it's actually the other way around and I was just reading too small a snippet - "His 2006 follow-up album, FutureSex/LoveSounds, departed from his earlier work to explore a broader sound" is the odd one out. Also please make sure to source the films that aren't present anywhere else, at least. Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 01:46, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

@Jishara: Done. RedShellMomentum^{talk that talk to me} 02:27, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

@RedShellMomentum: fantabulous, thank you so much, and congrats on the GA (and probably the Million Award! Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 03:36, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, grammar, and understandability): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, lists, and tables):

   Prose is generally fine, though some sections arephrased a little weirdly - for example introducing that he'd do the PGA thing before mentioning that he's an avid golfer. cut the and in "and Marvin Gaye, and he had listening" and make it a seperate sentence. " future actors Ryan Gosling and Keri Russell" is this super relevant? i'm not super sure, maybe it is. moS is followed.

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable, as shown by a source spot-check.

   a (reference section): b (inline citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

   Discography, filmography, and tours are entirely unsourced. The highest copyvios are all because of quotes. Some bad sources in PR Newswire, New York Post, Hello!, Distractify, Sportskeeda, Looktothestars, and Metro, and weak sources in Times of India, AllMusic, and Buzzfeed. some sources, like 448, are missing publisher. From my spot-check, sources don't mention that he's a dancer, that he sang country and gospel specifically, sources say it was put together by Perlman and not Kirkpatrick, source 18 doesn't state fastest sellign album of all time though 19 does, 61 doesn't mention snoop dog, 71 is about the fashion not the album, and 81 doesn't specifically say one of the most iconic moments.

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

   As far as I can tell nothing is missing in this upwards-of-10,000-words-article. It also stays very focused.

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

   Generally neutral. Encyclopedically listing his accomplishments and also criticism.

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

   Some past edit warring, but nothing recent.

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have non-free use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions and alt text):

   Mostly relevant images with good captions that are Creative Commons. All missing alt text. Do we really need the images of Jackson and Bowie?

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

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Did you know nomination

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Timberlake in 2016

• ... that Justin Timberlake (pictured) completed Justified without touching a pen or paper? Source: https://www.complex.com/music/a/lauren-nostro/50-things-you-didnt-know-about-justin-timberlake
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Verity (meme)

Improved to Good Article status by RedShellMomentum (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

RedShellMomentum^{talk that talk to me} 03:52, 13 October 2026 (UTC).

• RedShellMomentum, a reminder that a QPQ is required for this nomination to proceed. Dclemens1971 (talk) 12:54, 13 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Dclemens1971 I went to sleep after nominating this, sorry. Will do my QPQ now. RedShellMomentum^{talk that talk to me} 17:22, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Well done on getting such a high profile article to WP:GA. I am not 100% sure about the word “completed”, as in the six weeks period his team worked on completing the album, he will have come into contact with some pens and paper. We can’t replace it with “wrote” because clearly that is not exactly what he did. Passed Earwig - the matches I spot checked were all quotes. Image has an appropriate license. Onceinawhile (talk) 15:55, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

@Onceinawhile: Should "Justified" be replaced with "FutureSex/LoveSounds"? Eleven of its twelve tracks were not written on paper. RedShellMomentum^{talk that talk to me} 17:01, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

You could say that his first two albums were largely developed without Timberlake writing the lyrics down first. Onceinawhile (talk) 21:30, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

@Onceinawhile: Suggesting ALT0: ... that Justin Timberlake (pictured) developed much of the material for his first two albums without writing the lyrics down first? Source: Justified: ; FutureSex/LoveSounds: RedShellMomentum^{talk that talk to me} 22:19, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Excellent, ALT0+image good to go. To quote JT: "Gentlemen, good night. Ladies, good morning. And that's it." Onceinawhile (talk) 22:43, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Edit request: add Proda to Business ventures

I am an employee of Proda (executive assistant to co-founder Matthew Postlethwaite), so I have a conflict of interest and am requesting this change rather than making it myself. Paid-contribution disclosure is on my user page; a rename of this account to my own name is pending.

• Specific text to be added: In the "Business ventures" subsection, at the end of the paragraph that currently ends "...Timberlake and his wife, Jessica Biel, are minority owners of the Memphis Grizzlies.", please append:

In October 2026, Timberlake and Biel were announced as co-founders of Proda, a protein soda brand founded earlier that year by Matthew Postlethwaite and Jeff Church, with the couple to contribute to the brand's creative strategy and product development.

• Reason for the change: The subsection lists Timberlake's beverage ventures (Sauza 901, Bai Brands) and his joint holdings with Biel (Memphis Grizzlies). The Proda announcement was covered by multiple independent outlets and is the same kind of fact. The sentence is written neutrally, makes no promotional or sales claims, and does not link to the company.

• References supporting the change: Inc., Food Dive, TheStreet and The Hollywood Reporter, as cited above. Please feel free to trim to whichever sources you consider sufficient.

DrinkProda (talk) 04:48, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Response: 2026-10-24

Not done: THis seems overtly promotional. Packrat3860 (talk) 23:39, 24 October 2026 (UTC)