Janet Jackson discography

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This article contains the discography of American R&B singer Janet Jackson and includes information relating to album and single releases.

Contents

• 1 Albums
• 1.1 Studio
• 1.2 Remix
• 1.3 Compilations
• 2 Singles
• 2.1 Solo
• 2.2 Single appearances
• 2.3 Charting B-sides
• 3 DVD
• 3.1 Live in concert
• 3.2 Video collection
• 4 Sources
• 5 Trivia
• 6 See also

Albums

Studio

Album cover	Album information
	Janet Jackson Release Date: September 23, 1982 Chart peak: #6 (US R&B), #45 (UK), #63 (US) RIAA Sales Certification: Not certified[link] BPI Sales Certification: Not certified [link] Singles: "Young Love", "Come Give Your Love To Me", "Say You Do" Worldwide sales: 1 million[link]
	Dream Street Release Date: October 22, 1984 Chart peak: #19 (US R&B), #147 (US) RIAA Sales Certification: Not certified[link] BPI Sales Certification: Not certified[link] Singles: "Don't Stand Another Chance", "Fast Girls", "Two To The Power Of Love" Worldwide sales: 1 million[link]
	Control Release Date: February 4, 1986 Chart peak: #1 (US) (2 weeks), #1 (US R&B) (6 weeks), #8 (UK) RIAA Sales Certification: 5x Platinum[link] BPI Sales Certification: Platinum[link] Singles: "What Have You Done For Me Lately", "Nasty", "When I Think Of You", "Control", "Let's Wait Awhile", "The Pleasure Principle", "Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)" Worldwide sales: 14 million[link]
	Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 Release Date: September 19, 1989 Chart peak: #1 (US) (4 weeks), #1 (US R&B) (6 weeks), #4 (UK) RIAA Sales Certification: 6x Platinum[link] BPI Sales Certification: Platinum[link] Singles: "Miss You Much", "Rhythm Nation", "Escapade", "Alright", "Come Back To Me", "Black Cat", "Love Will Never Do (Without You)", "State Of The World" Worldwide sales: 14 million[link]
	janet. Release Date: May 18, 1993 Chart peak: #1 (US) (6 weeks), #1 (US R&B) (6 weeks), #1 (UK) (2 weeks), #5 (GER) RIAA Sales Certification: 6x Platinum[link] BPI Sales Certification: 2x Platinum[link] Singles: "That's The Way Love Goes", "If", "Again", "Because Of Love", "Any Time, Any Place", "Throb", "You Want This", "Whoops Now/What'll I Do" Us Sales 7,808,000 Worldwide sales: 19 million (as of 2005)[link]
	The Velvet Rope Release Date: October 7, 1997 Chart peak: #1 (US), #2 (US R&B), #5 (GER), #5 (FRA), #6 (UK) RIAA Sales Certification: 3x Platinum[link] BPI Sales Certification: Platinum[link] Singles: "Got 'Til It's Gone", "Together Again", "I Get Lonely", "Go Deep", "You", "Every Time" Us Sales 4,018,334 Worldwide sales: 8 million[link]
	All For You Release Date: April 24, 2001 Chart peak: #1 (US), #1 (US R&B), #2 (UK), #2 (FRA), #3 (GER) RIAA Sales Certification: 3x Platinum[link] BPI Sales Certification: Gold[link] Singles: "Doesn't Really Matter", All For You", "Someone To Call My Lover", "Son Of A Gun", "Come On Get Up" Worldwide sales: 7 million[link]
	Damita Jo Release Date: March 30, 2004 Chart peak: #2 (US), #2 (US R&B), #21 (GER) #32 (UK), #35 (FRA) RIAA Sales Certification: Platinum[link] BPI Sales Certification: Silver[link] Singles: "Just A Little While", "I Want You", "All Nite (Don't Stop)", "R&B Junkie" Worldwide sales: 4.5 million
	20 Years Old Release Date: September, 2006 Singles: "Call On Me"

Footnotes:

• U.S. sales of the album janet. are based on 6.93 million Nielsen SoundScan sales, and 860,000 copies of the album sold through BMG Music Club as of 2002. The album is certified by the RIAA for sales of only 6 million, since BMG Music Club is not tracked by Nielsen SoundScan, sales of "janet." are much higher than they have been certified for.[link]
• U.S. Nielsen SoundScan sales of The Velvet Rope are 3.18 million copies, the album also sold 420,000 copies through the BMG Music Club.[link]
• U.S. sales of the album All For You are based on 3.06 million Nielsen SoundScan sales, and 100,000 copies of the album sold through BMG Music Club as of 2002. The album is certified by the RIAA for sales of only 2 million, since BMG Music Club is not tracked by Nielsen SoundScan, sales of "All For You" are much higher than they have been certified for.[link]

Remix

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• U.S. sales of the album Design of a Decade 1986/1996 are based on 2.24 million Nielsen SoundScan sales, and 1,480,000 copies of the album sold through BMG Music Club as of 2002. The album is certified by the RIAA for sales of only 2 million, since BMG Music Club is not tracked by Nielsen SoundScan, sales of "Design of a Decade 1986/1996" are much higher than they have been certified for.[link]

Singles

Solo

• ^^ = Not released for sale in the U.S./Radio Only Single in America. (Before Download Sales).

Charting B-sides

• "Throb" was released as the B-Side to Janet's "Any Time, Any Place" Maxi Single in the U.S., it managed to gain enough airplay to reach #66 on Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay chart.

• "And On And On" was never serviced to radio. Radio stations started playing the song because it was the B-Side to the #2 Billboard Hot 100 hit "Any Time, Any Place", "And On And On", would end up going all the way to #12 on the Billboard Top 75 R&B Airplay chart, and #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay without ever being shipped to radio. It is very well possibly one of the biggest b-side's of the 90's that was never shipped to radio.

• "Where Are You Now" was not a b-side but an album track that radio played direct from the album "janet.". It reached #30 on Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay chart, just weeks after "That's The Way Love Goes" was released, the song spent 33 weeks on the Hot 100 Airplay chart, but never became a single. At the time, it was rare for radio stations to play an Album-Only track, but more rare for it to reach Top 40 and spend over 8 months on the Airplay chart.

DVD

Live in concert

Video collection

Sources

Magazine ad promoting mtvICON; honoring Janet Jackson

• U.S. chart positions: Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, Hot Dance Music/Club Play.
• UK chart positions: CIN Singles Chart.
• Canada chart positions: The Record (prior to 1996), Nielsen SoundScan (1996 to present).
• Japan chart positions: Tokyo Hot 100.
• "Making Love in the Rain" source Soul System (info database fed from billboard.com) http://www.soulsystem.it/dettagliochart.asp?date=9/5/1987
• All sales are based on SoundScan Numbers, Press releases, Billboard Weekly, BMG Music Club and Year End Charts to determine the actual sales. A lot of Jackson's albums are undercertifed by the RIAA. Jackson's A&M albums and singles sales information comes from Ron Allen at Universal Music.

Trivia

• With the release of only three albums in the 1990s, Jackson was named by Billboard as the second biggest artist of the decade, surpassing such artists as Whitney Houston, Garth Brooks, En Vogue, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Boyz II Men and only second to Mariah Carey.

• Jackson is the only female artist in history to have five back-to-back #1 studio albums on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart.

• Jackson is the first artist to have #1 singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. [link]

• Jackson is the only artist to place five or more top 10 singles on the Hot 100 from each of her three consecutive albums Control, Rhythm Nation 1814, and janet.

• Jackson is the only artist to have seven top five singles on the Hot 100 from one album, Rhythm Nation 1814. [link]
• With fifteen #1 hits on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, Jackson is the female artist with the second most #1 singles on that chart, second only to Aretha Franklin who has seventeen.

• In 1990 with the release of "Black Cat" from her "Rhythm Nation 1814" album, Jackson became first, and only, artist in Billboard history to score a #1 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, R&B chart, Dance chart, Adult Contemporary chart and, Rock chart. When "Black Cat" hit #1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock singles chart as well as Billboard's Hot 100, it was the first time a song hit #1 simultaneously on both of those charts.

• Jackson is the only artist to score 7 back to back #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. ("Control (Janet Jackson song)", "Let's Wait Awhile", "The Pleasure Principle", "Diamonds", Miss You Much", "Rhythm Nation", and "Escapade"). [link]
• Janet's biggest selling single worldwide is "Together Again", in 1998 it was the 4th biggest selling single of the year in Europe (2nd biggest for a female, only outsold by Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"). Worldwide sales according to Virgin Records are over 5.5 million copies, one of the largest selling singles ever from a female artist. "Together Again" spent nearly 50 weeks in the Top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100, it also remains one of the longest charting hits in Billboard history. "Together Again" sold over 760,000 in the UK making it one of the biggest selling singles ever in the UK from a female artist, "Together Again" sold over 600,000 copies in Germany also earned a Platinum certification just 2 months after it was released. "Together Again", also went Platinum in the Netherlands, France, Belgian, South Africa, Italy, and even went Double Platinum in New Zealand and Australia.

See also

• Janet Jackson videography
• For a list of Jackson's awards, see List of Janet Jackson awards and accolades
• For a list of her Grammy nominations, see Grammy nominations for Janet Jackson
• List of best selling music artists
• List of number-one hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart

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