Can't Stop the Feeling!

"Can't Stop the Feeling!"
Single by Justin Timberlake
from the album Trolls: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
ReleasedMay 6, 2016 (2016-05-06)
Genre
Length3:58
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Timberlake
  • Martin
  • Shellback
Justin Timberlake singles chronology
"Drink You Away"
(2015) 		"Can't Stop the Feeling!"
(2016) 		"Filthy"
(2018)
Music video
"Can't Stop the Feeling!" on YouTube

"Can't Stop the Feeling!" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake. It was released on May 6, 2016, as the lead single of the soundtrack to the film Trolls (2016), in which Timberlake voiced the character "Branch" and served as the executive music producer. It was written and produced by Timberlake, Max Martin, and Shellback. Musically, "Can't Stop the Feeling!" is an uptempo disco-pop and soul-pop number with funk influences.

The song was released as a single on May 6, 2016,[1] six months before the film debuted, and serviced to contemporary hit radio on May 10, 2016.[2] Timberlake gave his first televised performance of "Can't Stop the Feeling!" during the interval act of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 grand final. It was followed by a music video directed by Mark Romanek, which was released on May 16, 2016. The music video follows Timberlake on a tour to everyday places as he dances through what a typical day may be. By December 2023 it had accumulated over 1.7 billion views. A wide number of fan-made videos followed the song's video release.

The single debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100, opening with 379,000 downloads in its first week, marking Timberlake's fifth number-one single in the country, and making it the twenty-sixth song in the Hot 100 history to start at the summit of the chart.[3] Additionally, it became the second song to spend its first ten weeks atop the Digital Songs chart. The single marked his fifth number-one single on the Radio Songs chart and his eighth on the Mainstream Top 40; it is among the top twenty longest-leading number-one singles on the Adult Contemporary chart. Internationally, it topped the charts in Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, and Switzerland, and the top five in most of Europe.

"Can't Stop the Feeling!" was the best-selling song of 2016 in the US.[4] As of 2017, it has sold 3.3 million downloads in the country.[5] For Apple Music it was the second-best-performing song of the year.[6] The Official Charts Company from the UK named it Timberlake's biggest song in the country, for over one million units sold.[7] The song received several awards and nominations, such as its nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 89th annual ceremony[8] (where Timberlake performed the song as the opening number), the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song[9] and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Song,[10] and it won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.[11] This is the 41st Hot 100 number one song to be nominated for an Academy Award.[12]

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  12. ^ "Here Are All 41 Hot 100 No. 1 Hits Nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars". Billboard. January 31, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2018.