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Stats: MJ - 225,4 million albums sold | UWC album sales
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Originally posted by lifeofpariah
I mean, the post on the Media Traffic Facebook page originally included the album but they removed it. The OP still includes it, that's why I said it HAS BEEN excluded.
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Oh my bad. I thought you were saying it was excluded from the op.
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JANET JACKSON'S GLOBAL ALBUM SALES
'Janet Jackson' (1982) 0,5 million
'Dream Street' (1984) 0,5 million
'Control' (1986) 11 million
'Control: The Remixes' (1987) 0,5 million
'Rhythm Nation 1814' (1989) 14 million
'Janet.' (1993) 15 million
'Janet. Remixed' (1995) 0,75 million
'Design Of A Decade 1986-1996' (1995) 9 million
'The Velvet Rope' (1997) 9 million
'All For You' (2001) 7,5 million
'Damita Jo' (2004) 2,5 million
'20 Y.O.' (2006) 1,5 million
'Discipline' (2008) 1,0 Million
'Number Ones' (2009) 0,5 million
'Icon: Number Ones' (2011) 0,1 million
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 Janet Jackson
'Janet Jackson' (1982) 0,5 million
'Dream Street' (1984) 0,5 million
'Control' (1986) 11 million
'Control: The Remixes' (1987) 0,5 million
'Rhythm Nation 1814' (1989) 14 million
'Janet.' (1993) 15 million
'Janet. Remixed' (1995) 0,75 million
'Design Of A Decade 1986-1996' (1995) 9 million
'The Velvet Rope' (1997) 9 million
'All For You' (2001) 7,5 million
'Damita Jo' (2004) 2,5 million
'20 Y.O.' (2006) 1,5 million
'Discipline' (2008) 1,0 Million
'Number Ones' (2009) 0,5 million
'Icon: Number Ones' (2011) 0,1 million
Total: 73,35 million
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But Slobro said she was more global than Britney Spears? Clearly there must be some mistake 
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Originally posted by Eternium
But Slobro said she was more global than Britney Spears? Clearly there must be some mistake |
4) Britney Spears (33,300,000)
48m outside of US
16) Janet Jackson (20,092,931)
53.35m outside of US
i know this doesn't include janet's pre soundscan sales, i'm just kidding
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I need them to hurry up with Enya's numbers so we can have a confirmed top ten 
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Originally posted by Ash12345
4) Britney Spears (33,300,000)
48m outside of US
16) Janet Jackson (20,092,931)
53.35m outside of US
i know this doesn't include janet's pre soundscan sales, i'm just kidding |
That sounds like him, too 
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So Britney did actually outsell Janet 
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Originally posted by Eternium
I need them to hurry up with Enya's numbers so we can have a confirmed top ten
That sounds like him, too |
I really want barbras numbers
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I'm shocked at her best selling album being at 15 million, so disappointing considering she had the advantage of being at her peak during the '80s/'90s. The HUGE gap between her and Madonna, Mariah, Whitney & Céline, so funny. 
I never really believed her stans when they said she was a "global phenomenon", guess this is yet more proof against those deluded lies. I was truly expecting more of Janet. Her first albums nnnn;.
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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
So Britney did actually outsell Janet |
I thought this was common knowledge.
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Originally posted by Ash12345
I really want barbras numbers
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I hope they update her and Enya. Though they're probably a lot harder to estimate.
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Originally posted by Rolland
I'm shocked at her best selling album being at 15 million, so disappointing considering she had the advantage of being at her peak during the '80s/'90s. The HUGE gap between her and Madonna, Mariah, Whitney & Céline, so funny.
I never really believed her stans when they said she was a "global phenomenon", guess this is yet more proof against those deluded lies. I was truly expecting more of Janet. Her first albums nnnn;.
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Janet has consistency instead
For example, 14-15 years in:
'The Velvet Rope' (1997) 9 million
'Britney Jean' (2013) 600.000
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Originally posted by slobro
Janet has consistency instead
For example, 14-15 years in:
'The Velvet Rope' (1997) 9 million
'Britney Jean' (2013) 600.000
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The Velvet Rope was released 11 years after Janet's first commercial success, Control.
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'Dream Street' (1984) 0,5 million
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The album sold like 70k copies. But i'm pretty sure they meant 0,05 million. 
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Originally posted by Rolland
I'm shocked at her best selling album being at 15 million, so disappointing considering she had the advantage of being at her peak during the '80s/'90s. The HUGE gap between her and Madonna, Mariah, Whitney & Céline, so funny.
I never really believed her stans when they said she was a "global phenomenon", guess this is yet more proof against those deluded lies. I was truly expecting more of Janet. Her first albums nnnn;.
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Just because she didn't sell as much as them doesn't mean her impact wasn't as felt and her presence wasn't known. Also she released way less albums than them, and other than Madonna was a touring artist. She sold out arenas and stadiums and toured for like a year or so Whitney, Mariah and Celine hardly toured. She was also visually known for her music videos. Whitney, Mariah and Celine not as much. She was far better rounded. Her push wasn't just music, she was a performer and visual.
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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
So Britney did actually outsell Janet |
Britney's surplus comes from the bubblegum push. Her first 3 albums are the majority of her major sales. All happening all of a year from each other. She basically just rode a wave. In the late 80's and early 90's sales of albums were not front loaded like when Britney debuted. Even the great albums like bodyguard and so on only sold like 150,000 or so first week. Janet's JANET album actually was a first week high seller for it's time and that was only like 225k first week.
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Originally posted by FreeXone
Just because she didn't sell as much as them doesn't mean her impact wasn't as felt and her presence wasn't known. Also she released way less albums than them, and other than Madonna was a touring artist. She sold out arenas and stadiums and toured for like a year or so Whitney, Mariah and Celine hardly toured. She was also visually known for her music videos. Whitney, Mariah and Celine not as much. She was far better rounded. Her push wasn't just music, she was a performer and visual.
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This is true tho. Not to mention that Janet has always been more critically acclaimed and experimented with her music much more than the other three (Mariah, Celine and Whitney).
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Originally posted by Britney Spears
This is true tho. Not to mention that Janet has always been more critically acclaimed and experimented with her music much more than the other three (Mariah, Celine and Whintey). |
Plus she was more R&B. I don't even think things were labeled R&B until the 90's. It was labeled "Black Charts" or some crap.
For her to slay as she did with her core in R&B and a female was amazing. Whitney and Mariah were pure pop and ballads up until the later 90's when R&B ushered in and became heavily mainstream, thanks to people like Janet.
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People fail to realize that Janet never did half the promotion her contemporaries did nor did she have as much output as the others. Within the entire 90's she literally only put out 2 studio albums and a Greatest Hits. 3 releases. Now compare that to the others. Mariah: 6 studio albums, a greatest hits album, an unplugged album, and a Christmas album. Whitney: 2 studio albums and 3 soundtracks. Madonna: 3 studio albums, 2 soundtracks and a Greatest Hits album. Of course they're gonna sell more when they constantly stayed in people's faces. Janet actually allowed the public to miss her, toured and lived life in order to write about it. That's why she's the most critically acclaimed out of the bunch, sans Madonna. Plus even with the least amount of albums she still was the #2 artist of the decade. Only behind Mariah who had like 10 releases to her 3. She was so close to Mariah that if she would've just done 1 more album she would surpassed her overall and would've been #1. Considering all of that, her sales are great. Plus you have to remember that Janet is predominantly R&B which traditionally doesn't sell as much as other generes, especially globally. Look at the sales of Bedtime Stories, My Love is Your Love and Butterfly compared to their other albums. There is a reason they all sold considerably less. So the fact that Janet was able to sell as much as she did is good. She could've easily done an album full of Together Agains and sold much more, but that isn't her. She does varied albums.
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Not bad for Janet, not bad
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Originally posted by Rolland
I'm shocked at her best selling album being at 15 million, so disappointing considering she had the advantage of being at her peak during the '80s/'90s. The HUGE gap between her and Madonna, Mariah, Whitney & Céline, so funny.
I never really believed her stans when they said she was a "global phenomenon", guess this is yet more proof against those deluded lies. I was truly expecting more of Janet. Her first albums nnnn;.
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How is She not a global phenom? And make it good so I don't have to obliterate you in one post.
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