Justin Bieber's ghosts of Christmas future

Justin Bieber is ringing in the holiday season Under the Mistletoe. But while the 17-year-old pop star's new Christmas album, out Tuesday, could make him a new generation's Bing Crosby, what do the ghosts of Christmas Future have in store for the Canadian icon?

We gazed into our crystal ball to get a glimpse of the musician -- and the man -- that Bieber will become. Here is one possible future for the musical boy wonder:

Nov. 1, 2011 - Bieber releases album Under the Mistletoe, featuring classics such as "Silent Night" and "Santa Claus is Coming to Town."

Dec. 24, 2011 - Visions of sugar plums and Justin Bieber dance in the heads of millions of teenage girls worldwide.

June 2012 - Bieber's sophomore album, My Universe 2.75, is released and spends 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard music charts.

July 2013 - The hotly anticipated film Bieber 4-D is released in theatres, which not only shatters live concert film box-office records, but also introduces an entirely new dimension that will preoccupy the global science community for much of the next century.

July 2014 - The Canadian Pavilion at Disney's Epcot Theme Park is expanded, re-named Bieber World, and opens a popular ride called "It's Bieber's World After All," featuring thousands of Bieber puppets donning the garb of cultures from around the world, and throughout history. The sombrero and pancho-clad "Mexican Bieber" and loincloth-adorned "Caveman Bieber" become fan favourites, spawning a popular set of dolls.

December 2014 - Nine Bieber fans are seriously injured after a riot breaks out over the final Mexican Bieber at a Walmart in Vancouver, B.C.

Dec. 24, 2014 - A remake of Back to the Future is released, starring Bieber as Marty McFly, and co-starring Modern Family's Sarah Hyland as his mother in the past. The film is a huge success, but even Bieber's starpower is overshadowed by Charlie Sheen's unintelligible, yet charismatic take on Doc Brown. In interviews, Bieber and Hyland confirm a! romance bloomed between them on set.

February 2015 - Back to the Future 2 halts production after a German scientist and Bieber fan from the future travels back in time to warn Bieber that making the sequel will ruin his career. The studio sues Bieber for breach of contract when he pulls out of the project.

May 2015 - Hyland leaves Bieber for the much older Justin Timberlake, leaving Bieber heartbroken and in seclusion.

July 2017 - After a nearly two-year hiatus from touring and the studio, Bieber returns with a new, adult-sounding album, Justified My Ass -- largely viewed as an attack on Timberlake and his former lover. Bieber tells Rolling Stone, "I'm bringing sexy back . . . again. But I'm committing to it, unlike Justin Timberlake, who brought it back and then ignored it to focus on a movie career."

October 2018 - After a shocking, torrid 16-month courtship that dominates the tabloids, Bieber marries Miley Cyrus. A heated debate among fans occurs as to whether the new celebrity couple should be known as Cyber or Bierus.

July 2020 - Cyberg, Bieber's duet album with wife Miley Cyrus, receives critical pans and garners only middling sales.

May 2021 - Mexico's largest drug cartel is busted, with over 700 arrests across the country. Drawing comparisons to the inexplicable 2011 mural found in a drug lord's bunker in a Rio de Janeiro favela, Bieber's sway over the criminal underworld is revealed to be surprisingly strong. On top of a bounty of illegal drugs and weapons, investigators discover around 175 different murals of Bieber in the criminals' varied hideaways, and more than 300 mint- condition Mexican Bieber dolls still in their packages.

November 2022 - Cyber is no more; the pressure of their album's failure is blamed for the end of Justin and Miley's marriage.

2024 - Bieber releases the White/Black album, a collaboration with hip-hop star Jay-Z.

2025 to 2029 - Bieber takes time away from music to go back to school for taxidermy.

2051 - Fol! lowing a nearly fatal motorcycle accident in '50, Bieber returns to his late mother's religious routes. His '51 religion-themed album Heaven's Doorknob receives mixed reviews, but his cover of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" becomes his bestselling single since "Silent Night."

April 2057 - At age 63, Bieber forms the super-group The Traveling Bieberies, a collection of one-time chart-toppers such as Cee Lo Green, John Mayer, one of the Hanson brothers and Justin Timberlake (who mended fences with Bieber in 2042 after both performers played the Super Bowl halftime show in Shanghai, China). Their self-titled album reaches No. 1 on the Billboard charts and stays there for four months.

June 2059 - Bieber receives his best reviews since Justified My Ass with an acoustic album produced by legendary, 84-year-old music producer Jack White.

February 2060 - Bieber wins his first and only career Grammy for album of the year. It's the fourth album White has produced to achieve said feat, including Madonna's environmentally conscious folk album Like a Sturgeon (2027) and Snoop Dogg's rap-orchestral masterpiece Charlie Brown (2018).

2062 - Bieber follows up his success with two more White-produced albums, released months apart. Bielophone, an all-xylophone/vocal album, is heralded as genius. The second album, featuring covers of 1980s cartoon theme songs, is well-received but much less successful, despite a No. 1 single in a moody, introspective version of "Inspector Gadget."

March 2063 - After nearly a two-year whirlwind of touring, a visibly fatigued Bieber retires to his Stratford, Ont., mansion, his only companions a loyal contingent of impeccably dressed robot butlers.

September 2063 - Bieber is induced into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, along with former prime minister Stephen Harper, for his 2029 three-part piano concerto ode to hockey, Tim Hortons coffee . . . and evil.

May 2064 - After a fifth break-in at Bieber's mansion -- in this case, a 62-year-old! fan bre aks both hips trying to scale his bedroom wall -- Bieber promptly disappears to an undisclosed location.

2065 - Bieber's hovercraft is found crashed in Banff, Alta. While no body is ever found, he is declared dead.

2066-2070 - Bieber sightings take place around the world, including highly publicized incidents in a Tokyo karaoke bar (an uncanny "Baby" performance by a dead ringer) and a Toronto Swiss Chalet. Rumours persist that Bieber faked his own death to disappear from the public eye.

2071 - Stratford, Ont., which has become a northern Graceland -- a must-do pilgrimage for Bieber fans of every generation -- officially moves the Stratford festival to Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Acclaimed festival artistic director Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen, Leonard Cohen's granddaughter, laments the move, but says the festival has been "pushed out by the endless hoards of Beliebers.''

2074 - At age 80, Bieber is posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

2082 - The photos of a dishevelled busker who performs daily at the one-time site of the Stratford festival's Avon Theatre (now a Bieber shrine), is identified by his second wife as the flesh-and-blood Justin. Afterwards, Bieber makes a quiet return to public life, but spends most of his time at his moon condo.

2104 - Justin Bieber passes on at the ripe, old age of 110. Canadian and Atlantean (the city of Atlantis was re-built five kilometres off the coast of the Democratic Republic of Cuba in 2045) flags fly at half-mast, and tribute events and candlelit vigils are held around the world.

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