Janet Jackson :: Charts & Sales History

[oneofone]

Not being funny but looking at the stats above she is sadly a local act and it's rather disappointing.

[Bojan]

Janet's YT Stats
(last 28 days)

Where people are listening
Top cities
1 New York 301K views
2 Los Angeles 224K views
3 Chicago 187K views
4 Houston 138K views
5 Philadelphia 120K views
6 Atlanta 108K views
7 Dallas 102K views
8 London 92.2K views
9 Detroit 91.3K views
10 São Paulo 85.3K views

Top countries
1 United States 5.49M views
2 Brazil 377K views
3 United Kingdom 335K views
4 Canada 269K views
5 Japan 259K views
6 France 212K views
7 Australia 143K views
8 Philippines 140K views
9 Mexico 139K views
10 South Africa 128K views

Thanks.

I wonder how accurate this is, because "Scream" isn't listed, and "Made for Now" is 4th on their list of her most popular songs in the past 12 months. They were, by far, along with "That's the Way Love Goes," her most streamed songs on YouTube in 2020.

Anyway, in addition to this...

Top cities on Spotify:
Los Angeles, US
London, GB
Sydney, AU
Chicago, US
Atlanta, US

2.4 million followers
5.5 million monthly listeners

The difference between Los Angeles and London on Spotify is almost non-existent, what's more, London and Sydney were even her top cities there, whereas on YouTube Sydney isn't even in the top ten. Other artists would normally have more streams on YouTube, but Janet is performing much, much better on Spotify. Once her biggest international hits become available on YouTube, this difference might slowly start disappearing.

[madboy1]

Curious, brazil is second country.
few people know janet in brazil.
Its curious but amazing

[Choley]

Janet's single sales in UK (pure) - estimations from thanks to Shireblogger and Liam k-

01.Together Again - 807,000
02.The Best Things in Life Are Free - 450,000
03.Let's Wait Awhile - 300,000
04.Scream - 285,000
05.What Have You Done For Me Lately - 250,0000
06.Got 'Til It's Gone - 225,000
07.That's the Way Love Goes - 215,000
08.All For You - 200,000
09.Again - 170,000
10.When I Think of You - 160,000

11.Runaway - 160,000
12.Whoops Now - 155,000
13.What's It's Gonna Be?! - 150,000
14.Doesn't Really Matter - 140,000
15.I Get Lonely - 125,000
16.Nasty - 105,000
17.Escapade - 95,000
18.Girlfriend / Boyfriend - 90,000
19.Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song is About You) - 90,000
20.If - 75,000

21.Black Cat - 75,000
22.Go Deep - 70,000
23.Miss You Much - 70,000
24.Any Time, Any Place - 60,000
25.Rhythm Nation - 60,000
26.Come Back to Me - 60,000
27.The Pleasure Principle - 50,000
28.You Want This - 50,000
29.Feel It Boy - 50,000
30.Someone to Call My Lover - 45,000

31.Alright - 45,000
32.Diamonds - 45,000
33.Call On Me - 40,000
34.Love Will Never Do (Without You) - 40,000
35.Control - 40,000
36.Twenty Foreplay - 40,000
37.Because of Love - 35,000
38.Just a Little While - 30,000
39.Feedback - 30,000
40.Every Time - 25,000

41.All Nite - 25,000
42.Make Me - 15,000
43.Funny How Time Flies - 10,000
44.So Excited - 10,000
45.Two to the Power of Love - 7,000
46.Luv Me Luv Me - 7,000
47.Rock With U - 6,000
48.Luv - 6,000
49.Velvet Rope - 6,000
50.Nothing - 5,000
51.No Sleeep - 5,000
52.Made For Now - 5,000

Total 5,314,000 singles sold

She's the 15th best selling female singles artist in the country

[AnderF10]

Curious, brazil is second country.
few people know janet in brazil.
Its curious but amazing

Call on me was a HUGE hit here and Brazil is a big streaming market, I think that's the cause.

[Bojan]

Janet's single sales in UK (pure) - estimations from thanks to Shireblogger and Liam k-

Total 5,272,000 singles sold

She's the 15th best selling female singles artist in the country

Wow, great. Thank you for sharing. I'll add this in the OP.
Around 50% of Janet's records were sold outside the States.

[madboy1]

Curious, brazil is second country.
few people know janet in brazil.
Its curious but amazing

Maybe.
all for you was hit too

lets wait a while and come back to me was soundtrack in soap opera. I think was a adult hit.

[AnderF10]

Yes, CBTM was soundstrack of "Rainha da Sucata", one of the most sucessful soap operas in Brazil. And Call On Me was more an organic hit, it has 2 videos with portuguese subtitles on YT. One with 2.1M views and the other with 6.2M.

[thebigham]

With Janet's 40th Anniversary documentary premiering in 2022, maybe we will get updated RIAA certs?

Celine Dion just certified some catalog singles and an album.

[Bojan]

One can only hope.

Does anybody know how many combined streams "The Velvet Rope" has on Spotify?

[Ewokguy15]

One can only hope.

Does anybody know how many combined streams "The Velvet Rope" has on Spotify?

almost 185 million.

Her streams on Spotify are too low for the quality of her music.

Rhythm Nation 1814 is my favourite album of al time, it deserves to be heard, can't believe it only has 71 million streams.

[Bojan]

Thanks.

[Instinct]

Janet's top albums on Spotify:

The Velvet Rope - 184,859,441
Janet - 163,356,952
All for You - 75,390,374

Her compilation albums are eating up her album streams. Best Of Number Ones has 37,449,575 streams while Design of a Dance has 14,882,381.

[Choley]

Some of her first week UK album sales -thanks to Gezza and Liam K-

Janet - 31,000 - #1
Janet - 25,000 - #1 (second week)


The Velvet Rope - 19,000 - #6
All For You - 37,000 - #2 (missed the #1 with 2,200 copies )

Also for a couple days both album and song AFY were the number one on the midweek charts back then

[oneofone]

Rhythm Nation 1814 is my favourite album of al time, it deserves to be heard, can't believe it only has 71 million streams.

Yeah it is also my fave Janet album. it's EPIC. I can't look at that low number of streams.
And I will nevet get over the fact how poorly the album and its singles were received in Europe... especially the UK... Wtf happened there?!??

[Bojan]

Instinct Choley Thank you.

I'm gathering all the data you are sharing here, and all of it will be added in the OP.

[Moonbeam]

Yeah it is also my fave Janet album. it's EPIC. I can't look at that low number of streams.
And I will nevet get over the fact how poorly the album and its singles were received in Europe... especially the UK... Wtf happened there?!??

Yeah, Rhythm Nation 1814 is her best album, IMO, and it's strange that it has such low streaming numbers. The music videos from that era fare better, with 4 among her top 10 according to kworb, but the album itself deserves much more.

[Enzolorenzo]

It would be great to add her albums chart run as well! I only have The Velvet Rope chart run on BB200 so far

The Velvet Rope - Janet (1997) | Peak: 1 | Total Weeks: 74

1-2-5-11-19-23-18-25-31-32-31-29-26-22-26-27-29-32-36-41-42-38-34-28-23-24-29-24-26-33-40-46-56-57-73-81-81-75-74-59-56-56-51-57-60-56-61-64-62-63-70-83-68-43-58-64-90-97-99-112-111-115-108-106-98-106-108-113-121-129-160-128-164-180

[Bojan]

"The Velvet Rope" sold over 150,000 units in Italy within the first few months. [Corriere della Sera]
It's, arguably, based on that alone, one of the best-selling R&B albums in the country. We don't even have to narrow the competition to female artists.

[Instinct]

The Velvet Rope was definitely pretty big in Europe. Probably eligible for 2x Platinum in Italy (200K).

[Choley]

I think Janet and TVR both sold close to 3 million in Europe if not sold 3M.

[Enzolorenzo]

"The Velvet Rope" sold over 150,000 units in Italy within the first few months. [Corriere della Sera]
It's, arguably, based on that alone, one of the best-selling R&B albums in the country. We don't even have to narrow the competition to female artists.

This is huge for an R&B album in Italy! It’s definitely past 2x platinum
I’d say it’s a pretty huge achievement for an American singer in general tbh, very few international pop stars have a multi-platinum album in Italy

[raindrops]

With the singles versions merged the All For You album has 100,769,175 streams and it becomes her third album to reach this mark after Janet and The Velvet Rope and even if we exclude the single version of Son Of A Gun (657,135 streams) its still enough.

[raindrops]

Also Chartmasters created a new tool that shows the top 50 cities with the most listeners of any artists , Spotify only show their top 5
and this are Janet's top 50 cities with the most listeners around the world:

1	United States of America	Los Angeles	-	101,430
2	United Kingdom	London	-	100,026
3	Australia	Sydney	-	83,034
4	United States of America	Chicago	-	79,084
5	United States of America	Atlanta	-	65,949
6	Netherlands	Amsterdam	-	61,291
7	United States of America	New York City	-	60,929
8	Brazil	S??o Paulo	-	60,773
9	Australia	Melbourne	-	59,409
10	United States of America	Brooklyn	-	54,245
11	United States of America	Dallas	-	51,382
12	Mexico	Mexico City	-	50,748
13	Canada	Toronto	-	48,949
14	France	Paris	-	47,177
15	United States of America	Houston	-	47,057
16	Chile	Santiago	-	45,753
17	Philippines	Quezon City	-	44,576
18	Australia	Brisbane	-	44,349
19	United States of America	San Francisco	-	38,686
20	New Zealand	Auckland	-	37,866
21	Australia	Perth	-	34,000
22	United States of America	The Bronx	-	33,576
23	United States of America	Philadelphia	-	33,557
24	Germany	Berlin	-	32,991
25	United States of America	Seattle	-	31,453
26	United States of America	Charlotte	-	30,395
27	United States of America	Denver	-	29,749
28	Canada	Montreal	-	28,371
29	Ireland	Dublin	-	27,419
30	United States of America	Washington	-	27,168
31	United States of America	Phoenix	-	26,815
32	Netherlands	Rotterdam	-	26,705
33	Brazil	Rio de Janeiro	-	24,692
34	United States of America	San Diego	-	24,229
35	United States of America	Cleveland	-	24,183
36	United States of America	Miami	-	23,610
37	United Kingdom	Birmingham	-	23,405
38	United States of America	Las Vegas	-	22,527
39	Germany	Hamburg	-	22,497
40	Singapore	Singapore	-	21,918
41	Sweden	Stockholm	-	21,620
42	United States of America	Minneapolis	-	21,272
43	United Kingdom	Manchester	-	19,985
44	United States of America	Sacramento	-	19,877
45	United States of America	Detroit	-	19,598
46	Netherlands	Utrecht	-	19,536
47	South Africa	Johannesburg	-	19,422
48	United States of America	Anaheim	-	19,123
49	Canada	Vancouver	-	18,343
50	Australia	Adelaide	-	18,262

Janet Jackson

Global Ranking: N/A
The artist top 50 cities come from 16 countries
Popularity Rating: 72/100
Followers: 2,411,865
Monthly Listeners: 5,560,864 (Trend: 301,643)

[Bojan]

raindrops, thanks a lot for sharing. I always wanted to know this.

I see all continents there, except Antarctica.

With the singles versions merged the All For You album has 100,769,175 streams and it becomes her third album to reach this mark after Janet and The Velvet Rope and even if we exclude the single version of Son Of A Gun (657,135 streams) its still enough.

Just in time for the 20th anniversary celebration.
"The Velvet Rope" would also be closer to 200 million with streams of "Together Again" merged.