<P> In the United Kingdom, "Cry Me a River", debuted at number two on February 15, 2003 . The next week it fell to number three, before returning to its original peak on March 1, 2003; it stayed on the chart for 13 weeks . The song has sold over 365,000 copies in the country as of 2015 . It debuted at number 14 on the French Singles Chart on April 5, 2003 . After three weeks, "Cry Me a River" peaked at number six, and it stayed on the chart for 21 weeks . It was less successful on the Italian Singles Chart, where it peaked at number 14 and stayed on the chart for four weeks . "Cry Me a River" also peaked at number five in Belgium (Wallonia), at number six in the Republic of Ireland and the Netherlands, at number seven in Belgium (Flanders), and at number 10 in Germany, Norway, and Sweden . </P> <P> The music video for "Cry Me a River" was directed by Francis Lawrence, and filmed in Malibu, California, during the week of October 29, 2002 . Lawrence created the video's concept and told MTV News, "(Justin and I) had a conversation on the phone and all he said was he wanted to have some dancing in it, but to do my thing . He told me what the song was about, but in a (general way) as well . He just said it was a kiss - off song and so I came up with this idea and he went for it". Lawrence added that he also included some details in the video, including a reference to Spears's tattoo, which Timberlake enjoyed . He explained that he and Timberlake did not mention names while creating the video, only discussing the song's general beats . Lawrence also revealed that executives of Jive Records were nervous about some aspects of the video, such as Timberlake's representation of a voyeur and the tone of some scenes he was portraying with a girl . "That's the thing I liked most about this project, was that he was coming into it with a super clean - cut image with' N Sync and he's such a nice guy and so handsome and what I was into doing was making him be a bit scary . Lurking around the house in the rain, throwing a rock through her window, being a peeping Tom, getting revenge and doing stuff that's not really what a nice guy does ." The music video for "Cry Me a River" was released onto the iTunes Store on April 28, 2003 . </P> <P> The video begins with a blonde woman, played by model and actress Lauren Hastings (allegedly portraying Britney Spears), walking out of her house hand - in - hand with an unidentified man . The couple leaves in the woman's car (a silver Porsche) as Timberlake rolls down the window of a black Mercedes, from which he and his friend have been watching the woman . Timberlake breaks into the house by throwing a rock through a window and proceeds through the woman's house, with anti-gravity jumps and slides, not causing any other visible damage, except for kicking a picture frame of the woman across the living room . Then he searches some drawers and finds a video camera, while the driver of the car, Timbaland, signals for his female accomplice in the back of the car, played by model Kiana Bessa, to go in . She enters the house and goes with Timberlake to a bedroom, where she starts to undress and kiss him while being filmed . They stay in the bedroom for a moment; then the accomplice exits the house but Timberlake stays . As the blonde woman returns, he follows her around the house and hides in a closet as she showers . He gets closer to her and touches the glass surrounding the shower . The blonde woman senses someone in the room and turns around, but Timberlake is gone . She leaves the bathroom and goes into her bedroom, where the video he made with his new lover plays on the television . </P> <P> Peter Robinson of NME wrote that the video shows "what Justin looks like after he's had sex . Clue: he looks pretty good ." According to Virginia Heffernan of The New York Times, Timberlake channels the character Neo from The Matrix film series, "pacing anxiously around wet and metallic interiors". At the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, the video for "Cry Me a River" won in the categories of Best Male Video and Best Pop Video . It had also been nominated for Video of the Year, Best Direction in a Video and Viewer's Choice . </P>

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