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JUSTIN BIEBER
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On October 3, 2013, Bieber announced

that
he would release a new song every Monday for 10 weeks
as a lead-up to the film Justin Bieber's Believe, which entered production in May 2012 and was released on December 25, 2013. the film is a follow-up to Justin Bieber: never
Say never, and Jon M. Chu returned to direct. the first song
of Music Mondays, "Heartbreaker", was released on October 7. the second song, "All that Matters", was released
on October 14, followed by "Hold tight" on October 21, "recovery" on October 28, "Bad Day" on november 4, and "All
Bad" on november 11.

ally Like you".

In March 2015 Bieber was the featured roastee in Comedy
Central's annual roast special.[100] Bieber filmed an
episode for the Fox tV reality series Knock Knock Live, and
aired before the show was cancelled after two episodes.
2015–present: Purpose

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the seventh song, "PyD" featuring r. Kelly, was released
on november 18; it was followed by "roller Coaster" on november 25, and "Change Me" on December 2. the final
song, "Confident" featuring Chance the rapper, was released on December 9, 2013. that same day, it was announced that all 10 tracks will be featured on an upcoming
collection called Journals. It reportedly featured five additional unreleased songs, a music video for "All that Matters", and a trailer for Believe. Journals was only available
for purchase via itunes for a limited time only: from December 23, 2013 to January 9, 2014.

the titles of the five new additional songs are: "One Life",
"Backpack" featuring Lil Wayne, "What's Hatinin" featuring
Future, "Swap It Out", and "Memphis" featuring Big Sean
and Diplo. Bieber released a song titled "Home to Mama"
featuring Australian singer Cody Simpson in november
2014.

Because of the disbanding of Universal Music's division,
the Island Def Jam Music group, in April 2014, Bieber and
a number of artists were subsequently transferred to a UMg
related division Def Jam recordings, causing Bieber and
the other artists to no longer be signed to Island records.

In February 2015, Bieber released a song "Where Are Ü
now", with Jack Ü. In March 2015, Bieber made an appearance in the music video for Carly rae Jepsen's single "I re-

On August 28, 2015, Bieber released a new single titled
"What Do you Mean?" as the lead single from his fourth studio album Purpose. the song is a blend of teen pop, electronic dance music and acoustic r&B and became Bieber's
first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. He became the youngest male artist to debut at the top of that
chart, earning him a guinness World record. On October
23, 2015, Bieber released the album's second single titled
"Sorry" as an instant download, with the pre-order of the
album on itunes. the song debuted at number two on the
Billboard Hot 100. After eight non-consecutive weeks at
number two, on the week charting January 23, 2016, "Sorry"
climbed to the top spot of the chart and became Bieber's
second number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100.

the third single from Purpose, "Love yourself" also peaked
at number one in the US, making Bieber the first male artist
in almost a decade to have three number-ones from an
album since Justin timberlake last did it with his album FutureSex/LoveSounds in 2006/2007. "Company" was announced as the fourth single on March 8th, 2016. On
February 12, 2016, Bieber's first four albums were released
on vinyl for the first time.

Purpose was released on november 13, 2015 and debuted
at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming Bieber's
sixth album to debut at the top of that chart. On november
11, 2015, Bieber announced he will embark on the Purpose
tour. the tour starts in Seattle, Washington on March 9,
2016.

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