CSPC: Janet Jackson Popularity Analysis

Physical Singles Sales – Part 3

Damita Jo (2004) – 36,000 equivalent albums

All Nite (Don’t Stop) – 40,000
I Want You – 10,000
Just a Little While – 70,000

20 Y.O. (2006) – 27,000 equivalent albums

So Excited – 20,000
Call on Me – 70,000

Discipline (2008) – 9,000 equivalent albums

Feedback – 25,000
Rock with U – 5,000

Orphan – 2,147,000 equivalent albums

Diamonds – 820,000
Making Love in the Rain – 150,000
The Best Things in Life Are Free – 1,410,000
Scream – 1,660,000
Runaway – 1,170,000
Twenty Foreplay – 80,000
What’s It Gonna Be?! – 1,110,000
Luv Me, Luv Me – 170,000
Girlfriend / Boyfriend – 440,000
Feel It Boy – 140,000
Don’t Worry – 5,000

There’s not much to say about Janet Jackson’s post-2004 albums as the physical singles market was truly weak by then, a situation getting even worse with largely unsuccessful songs. The interesting category is the Orphan one which contains several hits from different years.

Herb Alpert duet Diamonds was a US hit in 1987, just like The Best Things in Life Are Free with Luther Vandross in 1992. A series of Orphan Top 10 singles continued in 1995 with the duet alongside her brother Michael, Scream, then Busta Rhymes’ #3 smash What’s It Gonna Be?! in 1999.

All those successes brought the artist a total over 40 million physical singles sold, a fairly huge tally in an era which favored albums.