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• NO. 1 ALBUMS IN FOUR DIFFERENT DECADES WITH SALES OF MORE THAN 50 MILLION UNITS COMBINED
• TEN BB HOT 100 NO. 1 SINGLES—IN A LEAD ROLE, WITHOUT CO-LEAD ARTISTS OR FEATURED ARTISTS
• THE ONLY FEMALE SOLO ARTIST WITH MULTIPLE HOT 100 NUMBER ONES IN THREE DIFFERENT DECADES
• THE MOST CONSECUTIVE TOP 10 BILLBOARD HOT 100 HITS AMONG SOLO ARTISTS
• THE MOST ALBUMS WITH FIVE OR MORE TOP 10 HITS
• „JANET JACKSON'S RHYTHM NATION 1814” HAS THE MOST TOP 5 SINGLES, WITH 7
• 22 RIAA CERTIFIED PLATINUM AND GOLD SINGLES
• 177 WEEKS SPENT ON THE UK SINGLES CHART DURING THE 1990S—THE DECADE'S 6TH MOST SUCCESSFUL ARTIST
Control (A&M),1986• First album by a solo female artist with five Hot 100 top 5 hits
• First album by a solo female artist with six Hot 100 top 20 hits
• 65 weeks of continuous run on the Hot 100 - the longest from one album at that time
• Top Pop Singles Artist (Billboard)
• Female Artist of the Year - Singles (Music & Media)
Control can be bought here
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Control - The Remixes (A&M),1987• BPI Gold
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (A&M), 1989• Top selling album of 1990 in the U.S.
• Four No. 1 singles on the Hot 100
• Only album with No. 1 singles on the Hot 100 in three separate calendar years
• Only album with seven Hot 100 top 5 singles
janet. (Virgin), 1993• Over 7 million units sold worldwide in 1993 alone
• Biggest selling album of 1993 by a solo artist in the U.S. - 4.3 million units (Billboard, MRC Data)
• Biggest selling solo album by a female artist of 1993 in Europe and Canada (Music & Media, RPM)
• First album by a female artist to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in the MRC Data era
• Seven top 20 singles on the UK Singles chart (OCC)
janet. can be bought here
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JANET.REMIXED (Virgin), 1995
Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (A&M), 1995• 4.3 million units sold worldwide within four months of release (Polygram) [source]
• Top selling greatest-hits album of the year in Australia - ARIA 4× Platinum (October 4, 1995)
The Velvet Rope (Virgin), 1997• Over 6 million units sold worldwide within ten months of release
• One of the best-selling anglophone albums by a solo female artist in France
• One of the best-selling albums by a solo female artist in the Netherlands
• One of the best-selling R&B albums in Italy
• One of the most successful R&B albums in the UK with combined record sales of approximately 1.5 million units
The Velvet Rope can be bought here
All for You (Virgin), 2001• One of the best-selling albums of the decade
• World's 12th top-selling album of the year (Billboard’s Global 20)
• Biggest selling foreign album of 2001 in Japan
• 5 million units sold in ten biggest markets in 2001 (Billboard’s Global 20)
• Longest running No. 1 single of 2001 on the Hot 100
Damita Jo (Virgin), 2004• Over million units sold in the U.S.
• 15th best selling international album of 2004 in South Korea
20 Y.O. (Virgin), 2006
Discipline (Island), 2008
Number Ones/The Best (UMe), 2009UK album sales: 2,460,000 certified units; 7 platinum, 3 gold, 1 silver award.
Control, 324,000
Rhythm Nation 1814, 281,000
Janet, 437,000
Design of a Decade 1986/1996, 529,000
The Velvet Rope, 367,000
All for You, 198,000
The Best, 100,000
Control - The Remixes, 100,000
Damita Jo, 60,000
Sources: [1] [2] [3]
UK singles sales: Reportedly 4,359,645 singles sold as of 2003.
Together Again, 807,000
What Have You Done for Me Lately, 252,000
That's the Way Love Goes, 214,000
Scream, 200,000
Sources:[1] @Wayne
Japan album sales (Orikon): 1,850,000
#57, Control, 15,330
#10*, Rhythm Nation 1814, 278,040
#5*, Janet, 313,600
#61, Janet Remixed, 23,930
#4, Design of a Decade 1986/1996, 260,990
#10, The Velvet Rope, 147,340
#4**, All for You, 454,780
#63, All For You Special Edition, 19,800
#10, Damita Jo, 131,514
#7, 20 Y.O., 95,931
#9, Discipline, 65,234
#20, Number Ones, 20,300
#18, Unbreakable, 23,774
*Number one international album
**Number one international album and the biggest selling international pop album of the year
Info: AnderF10
Charts and sales in South Africa: 1,200,000 certified units.
•“Janet Jackson,” No. 98, n/a
• “Dream Street,” n/a
• “Control,” No. 1 (2 weeks), 4× platinum (200,000)
• “Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814,” No.1 (5 weeks), 5× platinum (250,000)
• “Janet,” No. 1 (6 weeks), 6× platinum (300,000)
• “Design of a Decade: 1986/1996,” No. 2, 3× platinum (150,000)
• “The Velvet Rope,” No. 1 (1 week), 2× platinum 100,000
• “All for You,” No. 1 (3 weeks), 4× platinum (200,000)
Sources: [1]
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