Justin Timberlake Releases Album Art on Image-Tagging Startup Stipple

Justin Timberlake unleashed interactive art for his forthcoming The 20/20 Experience album on image-tagging startup Stipple's website. People can hover over the art (above) to reveal the album's track listing. Timberlake is an investor in Stipple.

He previously used another social site — Myspace — to promote "Suit & Tie," which is the first single released from The 20/20 Experience. Timberlake took an ownership stake in Myspace in 2011.

In an email to Mashable, Stipple says its "technology enables anyone to share an array of interactive content from a single post or image. From an image, Stipple dots expand to offer information, embedded videos, music, shop buttons, and more. The 20/20 Experience album art has multiple Stipple dots, which when hovered over, premiere the album track list, first single off the album on iTunes and YouTube, and photography credit."

"Suit & Tie" featuring Jay-Z recently broke airplay records and globally charted atop iTunes' top-selling singles rankings in its debut week.

Timberlake had teased a musical comeback this month only several days before releasing the song on iTunes on the same night as the Golden Globes.

Timberlake directed his 16 million Twitter followers to the new album art via this tweet:

I wanted you guys to see this first!!! #albumcover #tracklist stipple.com/photos/30556744

— Justin Timberlake(@jtimberlake) February 7, 2013

In conjunction with the song's release, he put this letter on Countdown.JustinTimberlake.com:

I hope this gets to you the right way. It's the only way I know to do it. Some people may criticize me for the last 3 days. But it was fun, right?? Right?!?! Besides, I'd rather speak directly to all of you. And, who can knock me for having a little bit of fun with it?

Well... No more teasing. Although, it was A LOT of fun. (Did I mention that I'm having fun with this?? Ha!)

*Makes a serious face*

This year is an exciting one for me. As you probably have heard through the "grapevine," I'm gearing up for a big 2013.

Back in June of last year, I quietly started working on what is now, my next journey with that thing I love called MUSIC.

The inspiration for this really came out of the blue and to be honest, I didn't expect anything out of it. I just went into the studio and started playing around with some sounds and songs. It was probably the best time I've had in my career... Just creating with no rules and/or end goal in mind and really enjoying the process.

What I came up with is something I couldn't be more excited about! It is full of inspiration that I grew up listening to and some newfound muses that I've discovered along the way.

I'm calling it "The 20/20 Experience," and it's coming out this year.

I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it.

That's all I'm giving you for now... I know, I know! Again, with the teasing!!!

Get ready. This is going to be fun (well, at least it is for me).

Image courtesy of Stipple