{"id":117384,"date":"2024-03-25T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/25\/justin-timberlake-debuts-at-4-as-ariana-grande-spends-a-second-week-at-1\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:00:28","slug":"justin-timberlake-debuts-at-4-as-ariana-grande-spends-a-second-week-at-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/25\/justin-timberlake-debuts-at-4-as-ariana-grande-spends-a-second-week-at-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Timberlake debuts at #4 as Ariana Grande spends a second week at #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-24\/M_JustinTimberlakeEverythingIThoughtItWas_022824.jpg\" alt><figcaption>RCA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Justin Timberlake<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Everything I Thought It Would Be<\/em> wasn&#8217;t able to knock <strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong> out of the top spot on the <em>Billboard<\/em> 200.<\/p>\n<p>Justin&#8217;s album &#8212; his sixth solo release and his first new project since 2018 &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/ariana-grande-eternal-sunshine-second-week-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235640277\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debuted at #4<\/a>, with first week sales of 67,000 units. All of his solo releases have debuted in the top five, and four have reached #1. Justin promoted the album with one-off free concerts in select cities, including a Los Angeles show that included an <strong>*NSYNC<\/strong> reunion. He also appeared on ABC&#8217;s <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em>, <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> and on NPR&#8217;s<em> Tiny Desk<\/em> series.<\/p>\n<p>When the album came out a week ago, Justin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C4hNDcLtXGl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote on Instagram<\/a>, &#8220;This album is a culmination of where I\u2019ve been and where I\u2019m going &#8211; and I\u2019m so grateful and nervous and excited to put it out into the world for you all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>eternal sunshine<\/em> &#8212; which has so far spun off two #1 hits, &#8220;yes, and?&#8221; and &#8220;we can&#8217;t be friends&#8221; &#8212; spends a second week on top of the chart, with sales of nearly 101,000 units. Her last two albums,<em> Positions <\/em>and<em> thank u, next<\/em>, both spent their first two weeks at #1, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,<strong> Kacey Musgraves<\/strong>&#8216; new album <em>Deeper Well<\/em> starts at #2, with her biggest sales week ever.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RCA Justin Timberlake&#8216;s Everything I Thought It Would Be wasn&#8217;t able to knock Ariana Grande out of the top spot on the Billboard 200. Justin&#8217;s album &#8212; his sixth solo release and his first new project since 2018 &#8212; debuted at #4, with first week sales of 67,000 units. All<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/25\/justin-timberlake-debuts-at-4-as-ariana-grande-spends-a-second-week-at-1\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}