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Stats: MJ - 225,4 million albums sold | UWC album sales
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Originally posted by SeanET
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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Well they got about half of these right, despite the label already confirming other figures for Her.
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Britney outsold Janet  I didn't know that
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Janet 
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Why are people acting like 73m is bad  especially when her music was never really made for international audiences
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And people keep mentioning Britney as if her sales aren't frontloaded. Look at her sales past the first five years. Nothing to gloat about. 15+ years of Longevity and consistency> 3 years of huge success.
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Originally posted by idkher
Why are people acting like 73m is bad especially when her music was never really made for international audiences |
Janet's biggest markets besides the U.S was Japan, Africa, Europe... 
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Originally posted by IMPACTNET.
And people keep mentioning Britney as if her sales aren't frontloaded. Look at her sales past the first five years. Nothing to gloat about. 15+ years of Longevity and consistency> 3 years of huge success.
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But the receipts show consistency from 1986 to 2001 only, which is 15 years. Femme Fatale was a commercial success, which makes it 12 years of consistency. The gap is not as big as you want it to be. And if you're really gonna compare album sales from the 80s and 90s with those from the 00s (and the 10s), try comparing their digital single sales. I doubt Janet has a multi platinum single.
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Originally posted by Britney Spears
But the receipts show consistency from 1986 to 2001 only, which is 15 years. Femme Fatale was a commercial success, which makes it 12 years of consistency. The gap is not as big as you want it to be. And if you're really gonna compare album sales from the 80s and 90s with those from the 00s (and the 10s), try comparing their digital single sales. I doubt Janet has a multi platinum single.
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The early 2000s was the peak of album sales...
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Originally posted by Britney Spears
But the receipts show consistency from 1986 to 2001 only, which is 15 years. Femme Fatale was a commercial success, which makes it 12 years of consistency. The gap is not as big as you want it to be. And if you're really gonna compare album sales from the 80s and 90s with those from the 00s (and the 10s), try comparing their digital single sales. I doubt Janet has a multi platinum single.
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For 4 years Britney fell off in terms of sales. She didn't redeem herself until Circus, truly, and while Femme Fatale was a success radio wise, the album sales weren't anything to brag about. And I don't even have to mention Britney Jean here. So Britney has been anything but consistent when you look at the scope of her career. From Control to All For You Janet matched and surpassed her brother even for a moment in time which is not an easy feat. Britney was huge at first but shes never come close to Janet in a myriad of ways. Its kind of interesting that you're even trying to argue otherwise. Im down with Britney so dont get me wrong but nope.
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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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Originally posted by ESSENCE_OF_SEAN
Janet's biggest markets besides the U.S was Japan, Africa, Europe... |
Ok.... not really true.. but her type of music was mainly only popular with American audiences (new jack swing, raunchy r&b) which is why her ww sales lack in comparison to the other girls. Janet definitely had her moments worldwide especially with TTWLG and Together Again, but she never pandered to worldwide audiences with Music Box/Ray of Light type of music
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WERK @ Velvet Rope selling 2M copies this decade. The consistency.
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Originally posted by FreeXone
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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This makes Britney's Oops and Britney debuts so much more impressive Especially considering NONE of the other female artists of the times, including bubblegum girls like Xtina, came remotely close to her numbers.
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I wish they'd post Nicki's sales.
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Janet was definitely more global than some ATRLers favs like Beyonce or Taylor Swift (of whose existence I know only thanks to this site). She had real starpower and was the only pop girl rival to Madonna (acclaim, impact, influence, performing etc.) I hope she makes a huge comeback.
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Originally posted by idkher
Ok.... not really true.. but her type of music was mainly only popular with American audiences (new jack swing, raunchy r&b) which is why her ww sales lack in comparison to the other girls. Janet definitely had her moments worldwide especially with TTWLG and Together Again, but she never pandered to worldwide audiences with Music Box/Ray of Light type of music
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How is Ray of Light pandering to WW audiences? Just because its electronic masterpiece? Oh please.
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Ray of Light is not pandering in any way, shape or form It was a risky album, it could have easily backfired massively and destroyed her career. Huge change in sound and image and there was zero sex appeal during that era.
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73 million albums is amazing, go Janet 
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Originally posted by IMPACTNET.
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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