CSPC: Janet Jackson Popularity Analysis

JANET JACKSON CAREER CSPC RESULTS

So, after checking all the figures, how many overall equivalent album sales has each Janet Jackson album achieved? Well, at this point we don’t need to add up all of the figures defined in this article!

In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

artist_spotify_id	#	Cover	Album	Studio albums (EAS)	sales_update_date	Other LPs (EAS)	Physical singles (units sold)	Digital singles (units sold)	Streams	Streams increase	Total EAS	valid_as_of	streams_updated_value	album_id
4qwGe91Bz9K2T8jXTZ815W	1		Janet Jackson	500,000	17.04.17	0	201,000 (7,110,000)	3,000 (20,000)	1,000 (04/17/17)	N/A	705,000	20,230,528	1,000	1,300
4qwGe91Bz9K2T8jXTZ815W	2		Dream Street	300,000	17.04.17	0	66,000 (220,000)	2,000 (10,000)	0 (04/17/17)	N/A	368,000	20,230,528	0	1,301
4qwGe91Bz9K2T8jXTZ815W	3		Control	9,200,000	17.04.17	3,427,000	2,122,000 (7,060,000)	191,000 (1,280,000)	140,000 (05/28/23)	Av.: 50 LD: 90	15,080,000	20,230,528	140,000	1,302
4qwGe91Bz9K2T8jXTZ815W	4		Rhythm Nation 1814	10,900,000	17.04.17	3,787,000	2,616,000 (8,660,000)	195,000 (1,300,000)	140,000 (05/28/23)	Av.: 50 LD: 80	17,638,000	20,230,528	140,000	1,303
4qwGe91Bz9K2T8jXTZ815W	5		Janet.	12,600,000	17.04.17	3,794,000	2,448,000 (8,160,000)	360,000 (2,400,000)	302,000 (05/28/23)	Av.: 110 LD: 150	19,504,000	20,230,528	302,000	1,304
4qwGe91Bz9K2T8jXTZ815W	6		The Velvet Rope	7,450,000	17.04.17	635,000	1,715,000 (5,210,000)	248,000 (1,650,000)	354,000 (05/28/23)	Av.: 140 LD: 180	10,401,000	20,230,528	354,000	1,305
4qwGe91Bz9K2T8jXTZ815W	7		All for You	5,900,000	17.04.17	266,000	944,000 (2,780,000)	188,000 (1,250,000)	156,000 (05/28/23)	Av.: 60 LD: 80	7,453,000	20,230,528	156,000	1,306
4qwGe91Bz9K2T8jXTZ815W	8		Damita Jo	1,550,000	17.04.17	12,000	36,000 (120,000)	83,000 (550,000)	34,000 (05/28/23)	Av.: 10 LD: 20	1,715,000	20,230,528	34,000	1,307
4qwGe91Bz9K2T8jXTZ815W	9		20 Y.O.	1,000,000	17.04.17	11,000	27,000 (90,000)	98,000 (650,000)	45,000 (05/28/23)	Av.: 20 LD: 30	1,181,000	20,230,528	45,000	1,308
4qwGe91Bz9K2T8jXTZ815W	10		Discipline	700,000	17.04.17	16,000	62,000 (25,000)	195,000 (1,300,000)	29,000 (05/28/23)	Av.: 10 LD: 20	1,002,000	20,230,528	29,000	1,309
4qwGe91Bz9K2T8jXTZ815W	11		Unbreakable	400,000	17.04.17	0	0 (0)	68,000 (450,000)	37,000 (04/17/17)	N/A	505,000	20,230,528	37,000	1,310
4qwGe91Bz9K2T8jXTZ815W	12		Orphan	0	17.04.17	227,000	2,214,000 (2,830,000)	113,000 (750,000)	20,000 (04/17/17)	N/A	2,574,000	20,230,528	20,000	1,678

As a reminder:

• Studio Album: sales of the original album
• Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
• Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
• Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
• Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)

See where the artist ranks among remaining singers

In spite of lower than claimed album sales and bad digital results, Janet Jackson’s totals are still truly healthy. How many artists can claim they outperformed their previous album twice in a row from a nearly 15 million equivalent album sales starting point? With rounded totals of 15-17,5-19 million, Control, Rhythm Nation 1814 and Janet. have been strongly successful.

She hasn’t exactly collapsed after that with The Velvet Rope shifting 10 million overall sales and All For You 7,3 million. Damita Jo bombed hard though with less than a fourth of the sales of its immediate predecessor. The following three albums continued the decreasing trend and a rebound looks highly unlikely in the future.

The total number of equivalent album sales managed by Janet Jackson is 77,1 million. This result puts her ahead of all post-2000 divas like Adele, Rihanna, Beyoncé or Taylor Swift. However, this is barely half the total managed by Whitney Houston who had a career that spanned the same era, less than half of Celine Dion too and less than a third of Madonna’s superb 241 million total. I started this study with a reference to politics – I’ll conclude it by saying that Janet Jackson is the perfect candidate of the centrism movement in the Diva’ scale.

The following pages list the most successful songs of Janet Jackson as well as the full listing of all CSPC results compiled so far to better gauge her position in the history of the music industry.

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Sources: IFPI, Spotify, PolyGram, EMI, Chartmasters.org.