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Justin's back today as a featuring artist on Major Lazer's 'Cold Water,' with MO.

No stranger to a collaboration, though, we thought we'd run down his top team efforts.

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So smol. So floof. It's tiny Bieber's first single as a wee little Canadian poppet.

Who to get in to collaborate on this sweet track to a lost first love? It's a cutely heartbroken, teen pop confection that maybe just needs a rap...

The natural fit, of course, is potty-mouthed, Southern rap stalwart Ludacris. You may remember him from wholesome classics like 'Area Codes' and some things we're not sure we can even type the title of out here.

It shouldn't quite work but it does - the innocent reminiscence of a teenage love past from Ludacris gives context to Bieb's then-present. It jettisoned Justin to megastardom and created thousands of Beliebers.

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A Canadian mega-whammy sees Bieber collaborate with leading champagne-gloom auteur Drake.

Between them they've managed to occupy the Official Charts number one for a combined 17 weeks so far this year alone - albeit 14 of those weeks were Drake and none of them were this song.

But it's a good collaboration - an opportunity to showcase some maturity for Biebs, back in 2012 when he was a mere eighteen years old and still being shepherded strictly through the pop funnel. And a more playful side to Drake, who was deep into his misery mumbling at the time, the height of his 'suddenly struck by existential dread in the club' period.

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Maybe it's just because they're driving round Amsterdam on a bus in the video but this feels like Justin's experimental flirtation with eurodance.

A little frisson of holiday romance with someone you don't quite manage to keep in touch with, perhaps. It's neither Biebs' biggest commercial success nor one of his absolute best tracks but it is interesting for being the start of some interesting collaborations that eventually lead him to Diplo.

More on that story very shortly.

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Any collaboration with official Queen of the Guest Verse, Nicki Minaj, should be in the very top segment of an artists' achievements. But probably no one predicted how great a rave-y collaboration between her and Justin could be.

Teenage Biebs manages to carry himself well enough but it's Nicki's dreamy, confectionary-spun verse that elevates the song into proper party territory.

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This one feels like a wildcard in Justin's career; at the time when he started recording 'Progress,' Biebs had been going through the seemingly-obligatory former-child-star phase of derailment, ending with a few mugshots and a lost pet monkey.

Enter Diplo (in his Jack U guise) and Skrillex - - he didn't. They worked together to produce what's pretty indisputably Justin's best album, at a time when a lot of people thought his career was over. It might be the best pop album of 2015, full stop.

'Where Are U Now's shivering, writhing beats were the first thing heard from it. It's definitely a Bieber track, his voice at the heart of it and complimented rather than overridden by the electronic touches but it's also muted, elegant, weird - only one of which words you'd probably usually associate with Diplo or Skrillex. It's a collaboration in the true sense, where the end result is greater than the sum of its parts.

Which is all a good sign for Justin working with Diplo's other, other side project, Major Lazer...