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According to the producer Shellback himself (Twitter Account: @Shellback666) the producer declared on the 9th of may the following: "Apparently iTunes (?) messed up and didn't credit me as a songwriter on "Can't stop the feeling"... But yea I very much co-wrote that song 😎" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bojje1 (talk • contribs) 08:54, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was: not moved. Calidum 03:01, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
Can't Stop the Feeling! → Can't Stop the Feeling – We had this discussion on Wake Me Up (Avicii song) 4 years ago and the same rule should apply here. 2601:8C:4001:DCB9:7412:C387:48CA:9A6C (talk) 01:24, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
- Oppose - sock puppet? This is part of the title. Unreal7 (talk) 10:01, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
- Oppose - the exclamation mark is clearly used on the single cover, is used by the Billboard Chart, is used on the official YouTube video, etc. In fact, is there an official source where it's not used? Martinevans123 (talk) 10:29, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
- Oppose There isn't a single relevant publication that doesn't use the exclamation point. Cornerstonepicker (talk) 17:15, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
- Oppose - Its used in the track and everything else. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 00:33, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
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The Marching Band performs "Can't Stop the Feeling!" by Justin Timberlake at the parade route at NYC for Thanksgiving 2020
The marching band played "Can't Stop the Feeling! by Justin Timberlake" during the parade route at the 94th Macy's Thanksgiving Parade on Thurs. Nov. 26, 2020, in NYC. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1017:B829:634C:B884:24DE:AF54:4906 (talk) 17:38, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
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Plagarism
Although I came here intitially to complete a requested copyedit, I've noticed some concerning issues with copyright violations present in this article. Spot-checking a random paragraph, nearly all of it is copy-pasted from the sources. I will delete this text from the article as copyvio in a moment, but see collapsed for full comparisons:
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65: It spends a sixth week at No. 1 on Digital Songs (124,000, down 10 percent), becoming his longest-leading No. 1 on the ranking, passing “SexyBack,” which led for five weeks in 2006 [...] that marks Timberlake’s best weekly audience for a song, passing the 159 million that “Mirrors” drew at its peak (June 22, 2013). Article: With "Can't Stop the Feeling!" spending a sixth week atop Digital Songs, it became Timberlake's longest lead atop the chart, passing "SexyBack". It marked Timberlake's best weekly audience for a song with 163 million, passing the 159 million that "Mirrors" drew at its peak. 66: “Feeling” [...] becomes Timberlake’s first solo No. 1 on Adult Contemporary, where it bumps 3-1; with *NSYNC, he led for 13 weeks in 2000-01 with “This I Promise You” (written by Richard Marx). Reaching the AC summit in just its eighth week, “Feeling” completes the fastest run to No. 1 for a (non-holiday) song by a male artist in 17 years, since Phil Collins’ “You’ll Be in My Heart” needed only six frames in 1999. Among all songs, “Feeling” makes the fastest trip to No. 1 on AC since Adele’s “Hello”: four weeks, in November. Article: The following week, it became Timberlake's first solo number one on Adult Contemporary. Reaching the AC summit in just its eighth week, "Feeling" completed the fastest run to number one for a (non-holiday) song by a male artist in 17 years, since Phil Collins' "You'll Be in My Heart" needed only six weeks in 1999. Among all songs, "Feeling" made the fastest trip to number one on AC since Adele's "Hello": four weeks, in November 2015. 67: Notably, Timberlake tops the chart without the aid of officially commissioned remixes. However, versions from Barry Harris, Fenix and Erick Decks, among many others, have helped bring “Feeling” to club crowds. Article: "Can't Stop the Feeling!" also gave Timberlake his sixth number-one on Dance Club Songs. He reached the top of the chart without the aid of officially commissioned remixes. However, versions from Barry Harris, Fenix and Erick Decks, among others, have helped bring the song to club crowds. 68: "Feeling" is just the eighth title to top Digital Songs for at least 10 weeks and the first since Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk!," featuring Bruno Mars, led for a record-tying 13 weeks in 2015; Flo Rida's "Low," featuring T-Pain, first set the mark with 13 weeks at No. 1 on Digital Songs in 2007-08. "Feeling" is the second song to spend its first 10 weeks on Digital Songs at No. 1, joining The Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow," which logged its first 10 weeks on the chart at the summit in 2009. Article: "Can't Stop the Feeling!" became the eighth song to top Digital Songs for at least 10 weeks and the first since Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk" led for a record-tying 13 weeks in 2015; Flo Rida's "Low" first set the mark with 13 weeks at number one on Digital Songs in 2007–08. "Can't Stop the Feeling!" is the second song to spend its first 10 weeks on Digital Songs at number one, joining The Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow", which logged its first 10 weeks on the chart at the summit in 2009. |
Pinging @RedShellMomentum, from WP:GOCE/R—this is absolutely not your fault, but I'd strongly suggest a very close look at the sourcing here if you do intend to take this to GAN (and probably even if you do not). It might help that I think much of the commercial performance section could be trimmed anyway; it makes up a heavy chunk of the article (compare to e.g. featured article Dance the Night § Commercial performance). I'll try to do some more checking, but I'm also fairly busy at the moment (both with other things onwiki and in real life). Feel free to ping me if there are any questions/concerns. Best, GoldRomean (talk) 22:55, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
- @GoldRomean: Apologies for the insanely late response, but I did a massive trim of commercial performance. Let me know what you think! RedShellMomentum 03:29, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you so much! I think it looks much better now, even had the previous version not likely contained copyvio. Wishing you best of luck at GAN :). Cheers, GoldRomean (talk) 18:04, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
GA review
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Nominator: RedShellMomentum (talk · contribs) 18:08, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
Reviewer: Vanderwaalforces (talk · contribs) 18:36, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
Taking this as part of WT:GARC#90. --Vanderwaalforces (talk) 18:36, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
- @RedShellMomentum It's been seven days, wanted to check on you if you have plans to fix these issues? If you want, I could place this nomination on hold. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:06, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hi, yes, I did a few without replying. Sorry for not editing the review to mark what I did, will do that now. RedShellMomentum 17:46, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
- @RedShellMomentum I have added more comments below. Please let me know when you get to them. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:35, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
- @Vanderwaalforces: Apologies for the late reply, but can this be failed? This is obviously going to take a lot of work and I'm unsure why I even nominated this for GAN in the first place. RedShellMomentum 01:00, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
- @RedShellMomentum Oh, I hope you’re able to do the fixes. You can let me know when you renominate it, good luck! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 06:39, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
- @Vanderwaalforces: Apologies for the late reply, but can this be failed? This is obviously going to take a lot of work and I'm unsure why I even nominated this for GAN in the first place. RedShellMomentum 01:00, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
- @RedShellMomentum I have added more comments below. Please let me know when you get to them. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:35, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hi, yes, I did a few without replying. Sorry for not editing the review to mark what I did, will do that now. RedShellMomentum 17:46, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
Comments
- "Can't Stop the Feeling!" charted at number one in Argentina,... In all my editing experience, I have never seen a paragraph written in that way; it needs to be fixed one way or the other. I expected that to be straight prose and citations that discuss this chartings cited at the end as opposed to the word–by–word citation that really makes the paragraph unreadable and ugly somehow. I figured that this is telling us what the chart table far below already does, so yeah it needs to be fixed one way or the other.
Done, used "Can't Stop the Feeling!" charted at number one on the single charts of Argentina,... instead.
- The video was covered in news media including The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Vogue, and garnered over 2 million views on Facebook.[125][126][127] This does not look like an encyclopaedic detail; why not very briefly tell us what these media said as opposed to just saying it was covered?
- Still on that, the claim that The video was covered... by The Guardian forexample does not appear verifiable since the source literally only said On Sunday, a 200-person flashmob appeared in New York City’s Union Square. Wearing brightly coloured suits and T-shirts with slogans like The Future is Female, they performed a carefully choreographed, five-minute tribute to Hillary Clinton, as Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop the Feeling played over loudspeaker. (emphasis mine), did I read this wrong? What video could this possibly be referring to?
- The Hillary Clinton video, which the claim is sourced to.
- The critical reception is written oddly; for example The song received positive reviews from music critics. Writers from Billboard,[3] Rolling Stone,[14] Fuse[6] and USA Today[15] highlighted its attractiveness for the summer season. After that, Adelle Platon from Billboard is correctly represented, but you never discussed "Rolling Stone, Fuse and USA Today". I think the critical reception section could make good use of expansion.
- Digital Spy considered it the 19th-best pop song of the year,[22] while Idolator named it the 20th-best song of the year,[23] for "feel-good" and "infectious." Here, I see [23] is cited after the comma which leaves "for "feel-good" and "infectious."" hanging without a citation, coupled with the fact that the grammar is wrong.
- Idolator and Digital Spy should probably be italicised.
Done.
- "Accolades" and "Usage in other media" are list-like and read more as compilations than prose. The same issue I highlighted above appears here too. For example, in the first paragraph of the Accolades section, instead of writing it that way, I could write it this way: "Can't Stop the Feeling!" won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media and received two honors at the 2016 Hollywood Film and Music in Media Awards.[26][27][28] The track was also nominated for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Critics' Choice Awards, Satellite Awards, and the Guild of Music Supervisors Awards.[31][32][33] This is not perfect, but it is a starter. This particular issue is prevalent throughout the article.
- There are several instances where we have "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz." instead of "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".
- The lead is serviceable, though it may benefit from mentioning the Grammy win and mentioning the Academy Award nomination. Those are among the song's most significant achievements.
- The first video released, titled "First Listen", featured cast members from the DreamWorks Animation's Trolls,… This is grammatically wrong. It should be something like The first video, titled “First Listen”, featured cast members from DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls…
- Aversely, contributors for Time and Spin gave it unfavorable reviews… "Aversely" is awkward and unnatural here. Use "Conversely" or "By contrast".
- …which was great deal of fun This is missing "a".
- Another very minor issue appears in the credits Max Martin – writing, production, background vocals, keyboards, programming,, the trailing comma should be removed.
- The article repeatedly says the song reached number one on many "single charts". But the chart table appears to mix together official singles charts, airplay charts, digital song charts, radio charts, component charts, regional charts. For example, the article says the song reached number one on the Irish and Italian single charts, but in the chart table Ireland's official singles chart entry appears to peak at 3, Italy's official FIMI singles chart entry appears to peak at 7, The number-one Irish and Italian positions appear to be airplay charts. Hungary appears to have a radio number one but a singles peak of 2, Russia is listed through a radio chart, South Africa appears to be an airplay chart. This affects both the lead and "Commercial performance" section.
- Elsewhere, it charted at number one on the Argentine, Brazilian, Belgian, Canadian, Czech, Dutch, Ecuadorian, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Israeli, Italian, Russian, Scottish, Slovakian, Slovenian, South African, Swedish, Swiss, and Venezuelan single charts. This should be revised to avoid implying all were official national singles charts. You could safely say It also topped national singles charts in several countries, including Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland, and reached number one on airplay or component charts in countries including Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Slovenia, and South Africa.
- Why does the Billboard chart citations (#182, #202, #224) have dates as "January 2, 2013" for a 2016 chart? That is weird and should be fixed.
- opening with 379,000 downloads in its first week is only discussed directly in the lead, it should be added to the "Commercial performance" section with a source or removed entirely.
- File:Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop the Feeling.png is valid fair use, File:Can't Stop the Feeling.ogg is valid fair use, File:Cant Stop the Feeling music video.png is valid fair use, File:Lady A - Charlotte 12-27-12-8.jpg is CC BY 2.0 which is okay.
- Captions for images are okay. I recommended adding alt to the infobox image.
- The major stopper for this article is the chart synthesis that needs to be resolved. If the article takes many different chart types and summarises them as "single charts", that is a form of imprecise synthesis. Singles chart, airplay chart, digital songs chart, component chart, and radio chart should not be treated as interchangeable.
