Janet Jackson :: Charts & Sales History

[thebigham]

A few updates:

Scream SPS: 853,000 - was 837k

Any Time Any Place SPS: 846,000 - was 816k

[LostAvenger]

A few updates:

Scream SPS: 853,000 - was 837k

Any Time Any Place SPS: 846,000 - was 816k

Thank you so much! A few requests if you ever get around to them:

Brandy & Monica's The Boy Is Mine - Soundscan's best selling single of 1998 with 2,591,000 physical units sold - no info known on SPS
Toni Braxton's Unbreak My Heart - sold 2,400,000 physical units in 1996 & 1997 - no info known on SPS
Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want To Have Fun - certified Platinum in physical units in 1989, no info known on SPS though I believe it's the most streamed female 80s song on streaming services other than I Wanna Dance With Somebody.
Jennifer Lopez's On The Floor - by far her most consumed song, sold 3.8 million downloads by April 2013 according to Billboard though hasn't gone above it's 3x Platinum certification in September of 2011.
Olivia Newton-John's Physical - certified Platinum for 2 million units in January 1982 - no info known on SPS
LeAnn Rimes' How Do I Live - 3.5M physical units sold, no info on SPS.

Thanks in advance!

[Nerd Score]

Janet Jackson United Stated sales moving up fast!

[TwentyForeplay]

Good find. Never really thought about her under-certified she is outside of the states. "janet." is likely 4x-5x in Canada, being there were 3 more singles to follow.

Janet had a tour date in Canada on June 13th. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_World_Tour#Set_list

Looks like it updated for promotion for the show since it was updated on June 14th.

Yes, and the janet album was Top 10 the following week after the 93 YE chart was published (during 1993 Christmas sales). It easily surpassed 400,000 throughout 1994 and should be over 500,000 to-date in Canada.

She’s also very under-certified in Japan:

My estimates with imports:
Control 300,000
Rhythm Nation 600,000 (400,000 was confirmed by Billboard May 1990)
janet. 700,000
Design of a Decade 550,000
The Velvet Rope 400,000
All For You 800,000

Japan
(Platinum = 200,000)
Control (no cert) -> 1x Platinum
Rhythm Nation 1x > 3x Platinum
janet. 2x -> 3x Platinum (in RIAJ database there’s only the 1x cert)
Design of a Decade 1x -> 2x or 3x Platinum
The Velvet Rope 2x Platinum (in RIAJ database there’s only the 1x cert)
All For You 3x -> 4x Platinum

Doesn’t Really Matter single is probably 1x Gold if it has over 83,000 Oricon sales.

[Choley]

TwentyForeplay Rhythm Nation sold 500,000 copies in Japan according to local reports (1990).It must be around 550-600k range like you said

[red3269]

I remember seeing higher Japanese sales many years ago from a member here who shares oricon sales and import estimates. Was it jpguy? Forgot his name.

[Choley]

AnderF10 do you have Janet's Japan stats including debut week sales like you shared in Britney's thread?Thanks

[AnderF10]

Rhythm Nation 1814 20 - 19 - 19 - 22 - 23 - 32 - 37 - 47 - 56 - 73 - 79 - 107 - 163
1990/01/15: 136-73-51-39-34-32-17-21-20-14-13-17-15-13-10-17-19-12-17-13-21-29-28-21-52-64-58-81-101-122-122-170-136-181

janet 5 (43,620) - 11 (27,260) - 11 (22,750) - 10 (21,280) - 12 (14,660) - 17 (13,620) - 17 (10,460) - 23 (10,230) - 19 (10,070) - 28 - 31 - 30 - 29 - 41 - 58 - 63 - 67 - 72 - 134 - 164 - 127 - 119 - 145 - 142 - 151 - 126 - 197 - 153-x-x-181
1994/01/10: 158-105-114-83-61-48-48-48-66-69-67-61-65-78-87-70-140-192-185

janet remixes 1995/04/17: 72-61-63-85-110-142-161-190-197-165-196

Design Of A Decade 4 (89,710) - 10 (40,860) - 13 (37,340) - 19 (29,250) - 21 - 25 - 40 - 73 - 95 - 129 - 107
1996/01/01: 109 - 158 - 161 - 165 - x - 182

The Velvet Rope 14 (36,690) - 10 (34,310) - 14 (19,310) - 17 (12,630) - 23 - 46 - 80 - 78 - 74 - 85 - 112 - 132
1998/01/12: 129-139-120-111-109-95-80-90-127-128-186
1999/01/25: 138-177

All For You 5 (57,810) - 4 (120,110) - 9 (63,450) - 9 (50,820) - 11 (28,230) - 11 (24,330) - 14 (18,430)

Damita Jo 18 (12,884) - 10 (27,510) - 13 (22,647) - 15 (14,557) - 16 (10,053)

20 YO 12 (20,380) - 7 (24,462) - 15 (10,198) - 17 (8,854)

Discipline 9 (19,839) - 19 (10,720)

Number Ones 20 (6,642)

Unbreakable 24 (3,880) - 18 (3,826) - 20 (3,040) - 30 (2,164) - 45 (1,747) - 33 (1,502) - 41 (1,826) - 43 (1,802) - 91 (1,085) - 120 (669) - ?-?-? - 186 (?) - 207 (317)

I'm not sure about RN's chart-run... physical sales only for the Top 20 positions. Imports included from Damita onwards. "Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By The Way" was #1 most imported album of 2002 (222,732), unfortunately I don't know if Oricon released an annual imported chart in 2001, but 200k~400k imported for "All For You" seems possible since it was one of the best-selling international albums in 2001 and it was much bigger in Japan than Red Hot's album was in 2002.

By The Way (#86 232,250 ~main chart) - (#1 222,732 imported ~imported chart)
All For You (#48 441,450 ~main chart) ?? imported

[Choley]

Thanks for all of your work AnderF10

[red3269]

Thank you for this AnderF10

[LostAvenger]

All For You is certified 3x Platinum in Japan for 600,000 units shipped so it must have done around 200K in imports as well.

[lovedeluxe]

https://web.archive.org/web/20070927...666900,00.html

Janet even outperformed regular TV networks. What a crying shame... the fall out that would happen a few years later.

Is this the most watched HBO concert special?

[LostAvenger]

https://web.archive.org/web/20070927...666900,00.html

Janet even outperformed regular TV networks. What a crying shame,, the fall out what would happen a few years later.

Is this the most watched HBO concert special?

I believe so? The most watched program on HBO period was the Game Of Thrones series finale with 19.3 million viewers.

[lovedeluxe]

So impressive!

[Nerd Score]

Well The Velvet Rope Tour is the second most watched tour by a female music act in history The Velvet Rope Tour only behind Cher's The Farewell Tour that had gathered 17 million views in being the most watched on television.

[Instinct]

Rhythm Nation 1814 20 - 19 - 19 - 22 - 23 - 32 - 37 - 47 - 56 - 73 - 79 - 107 - 163
1990/01/15: 136-73-51-39-34-32-17-21-20-14-13-17-15-13-10-17-19-12-17-13-21-29-28-21-52-64-58-81-101-122-122-170-136-181

janet 5 (43,620) - 11 (27,260) - 11 (22,750) - 10 (21,280) - 12 (14,660) - 17 (13,620) - 17 (10,460) - 23 (10,230) - 19 (10,070) - 28 - 31 - 30 - 29 - 41 - 58 - 63 - 67 - 72 - 134 - 164 - 127 - 119 - 145 - 142 - 151 - 126 - 197 - 153-x-x-181
1994/01/10: 158-105-114-83-61-48-48-48-66-69-67-61-65-78-87-70-140-192-185

janet remixes 1995/04/17: 72-61-63-85-110-142-161-190-197-165-196

Design Of A Decade 4 (89,710) - 10 (40,860) - 13 (37,340) - 19 (29,250) - 21 - 25 - 40 - 73 - 95 - 129 - 107
1996/01/01: 109 - 158 - 161 - 165 - x - 182

The Velvet Rope 14 (36,690) - 10 (34,310) - 14 (19,310) - 17 (12,630) - 23 - 46 - 80 - 78 - 74 - 85 - 112 - 132
1998/01/12: 129-139-120-111-109-95-80-90-127-128-186
1999/01/25: 138-177

All For You 5 (57,810) - 4 (120,110) - 9 (63,450) - 9 (50,820) - 11 (28,230) - 11 (24,330) - 14 (18,430)

Damita Jo 18 (12,884) - 10 (27,510) - 13 (22,647) - 15 (14,557) - 16 (10,053)

20 YO 12 (20,380) - 7 (24,462) - 15 (10,198) - 17 (8,854)

Discipline 9 (19,839) - 19 (10,720)

Number Ones 20 (6,642)

Unbreakable 24 (3,880) - 18 (3,826) - 20 (3,040) - 30 (2,164) - 45 (1,747) - 33 (1,502) - 41 (1,826) - 43 (1,802) - 91 (1,085) - 120 (669) - ?-?-? - 186 (?) - 207 (317)

I'm not sure about RN's chart-run... physical sales only for the Top 20 positions. Imports included from Damita onwards. "Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By The Way" was #1 most imported album of 2002 (222,732), unfortunately I don't know if Oricon released an annual imported chart in 2001, but 200k~400k imported for "All For You" seems possible since it was one of the best-selling international albums in 2001 and it was much bigger in Japan than Red Hot's album was in 2002.

By The Way (#86 232,250 ~main chart) - (#1 222,732 imported ~imported chart)
All For You (#48 441,450 ~main chart) ?? imported

Janet's success in Japan is so underrated. All For You was a smash.

[lovedeluxe]

Wow. That's amazing.

[Choley]

Collecting from chartsinfrance

Female artists who sold at least 30 million albums in US (estimations)

• Barbra Streisand - 95 million
• Mariah Carey - 72.65 million
• Madonna - 72.3 million
• Celine Dion - 62.3 million
• Whitney Houston - 60.3 million
• Reba Mcentire - 55.2 million
• Linda Ronstadt - 45.5 million
• Shania Twain - 45.5 million
• Janet Jackson - 43.5 million
• Britney Spears - 40.7 million
• Taylor Swift - 38 million
• Dixie Chicks - 34.7 million
• Enya - 33.4 million

[Nerd Score]

Together Again now has surpass 100 million streams on Spotify!

[Choley]

Yay!Her first song to achieve that.TTWLG is coming too

[britneylinda]

Janet's Japan success is so underrated, such good numbers so happy

[musiclover3568]

That's The Way Love Goes became the first single by a female artist to go straight in at number 1 in New Zealand.

https://nztop40.co.nz/chart/singles?chart=3561

[thebigham]

A few updates:

Again SPS: 519,000 - was 505k

Together Again SPS: 519,000 - was 504k

[lovedeluxe]

That's The Way Love Goes became the first single by a female artist to go straight in at number 1 in New Zealand.

https://nztop40.co.nz/chart/singles?chart=3561

Amazing.

[Nerd Score]

That's The Way Love Goes broke a lot of records I'm surprise it's not one of the best selling songs of all time.