Justin Bieber's 'Vanity Fair' Bust

His February cover was the magazine's worst-selling in over a decade

After conquering seemingly every industry from music to film to perfume, it appears that there’s one place where Justin Bieber just can’t seem to catch a break: magazine covers.

According to Women’s Wear Daily, the tween heartthrob’s February cover of Vanity Fair is on track to become the magazine’s worst-selling issue in nearly 12 years and one of the top three worst sellers for the publication since Graydon Carter took over as editor-in-chief in 1992.

Data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ Rapid Report shows that Bieber’s cover has sold just 246,000 copies—meaning that he’s Vanity Fair’s biggest bomb since a July 1999 cover featuring Will Smith, which sold 202,701 copies at newsstands.

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