Song · Justin Timberlake
“Suit & Tie” by Justin Timberlake
From the album The 20/20 Experience (2013)
“Suit & Tie” by Justin Timberlake appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station in 2013. It was first released in 2013 on the album The 20/20 Experience. Its best result is #139 on the WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2013. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #338 indie & aaa song of 2013.
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Justin Timberlake's comeback started on January 14, 2013, with "Suit & Tie", the lead single from The 20/20 Experience, with Jay-Z along for the ride. Timberlake wrote and produced it with Timbaland and J-Roc, Jay-Z and James Fauntleroy chipped in on the writing, and a piece of Sly, Slick and Wicked's 1972 song "Sho' Nuff" put that group's members on the credits too.
It's an unhurried strut of mid-tempo R&B and soul, sung with a drawl over synths slowed to a crawl, the claps landing a hair off the beat like a chopped-and-screwed remix, all in praise of looking good and dressing sharp. Critics liked the production and the singing but split on it as a comeback; buyers didn't, snapping up 315,000 US downloads in the first week, more than the 250,000 of "SexyBack", and sending it to number three in the US, the UK and Canada.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 139 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2013 | 200 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 819 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
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