Justin Timberlake

Okay, so maybe Justin Timberlake didn’t knock it out of the park with February’s Man of the Woods. It’s a perplexing record that offered an unnecessary answer to the question of what might happen if the former boy-band heartthrob “went country” while cribbing a few weirder pages from the Bon Iver playbook. And he definitely did wrong by the queen Janet Jackson at the Super Bowl so many years ago. But Timberlake was born and bred to be a capital-E Entertainer, on which he’s bound to deliver when he makes this stadium stop in Raleigh. While some of Timberlake’s post-“SexyBack” singles haven’t had as much staying power as that monster hit (with a possible exception with 2016’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling” from the soundtrack to the feature-film adaptation of the Troll doll universe), he still remains a steamroller presence in the pop world. —Allison Hussey