Janet Jackson singles discography
This article contains the discography of American R&B singer Janet Jackson and includes information relating to album and single releases.
Albums
Studio
| Album cover | Album information |
|---|---|
| Janet Jackson | |
| Dream Street | |
 |
Control
|
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
| |
janet.
| |
| The Velvet Rope | |
All For You
| |
| Damita Jo | |
 |
20 Years Old |
Footnotes:
- U.S. sales of the album janet. are based on 6.93 million Nielsen SoundScan sales, and 860,000 copies of the album sold through BMG Music Club as of 2002. The album is certified by the RIAA for sales of only 6 million, since BMG Music Club is not tracked by Nielsen SoundScan, sales of "janet." are much higher than they have been certified for.[24]
- U.S. Nielsen SoundScan sales of The Velvet Rope are 3.18 million copies, the album also sold 420,000 copies through the BMG Music Club.[25]
- U.S. sales of the album All For You are based on 3.06 million Nielsen SoundScan sales, and 100,000 copies of the album sold through BMG Music Club as of 2002. The album is certified by the RIAA for sales of only 2 million, since BMG Music Club is not tracked by Nielsen SoundScan, sales of "All For You" are much higher than they have been certified for.[26]
Remix
Compilations
Hits collections:
| Album cover | Album information |
|---|---|
| Control: The Remixes | |
| Janet. Remixed |
| Album cover | Album information |
|---|---|
| Design of a Decade 1986/1996 |
Footnotes:
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. |
- U.S. sales of the album Design of a Decade 1986/1996 are based on 2.24 million Nielsen SoundScan sales, and 1,480,000 copies of the album sold through BMG Music Club as of 2002. The album is certified by the RIAA for sales of only 2 million, since BMG Music Club is not tracked by Nielsen SoundScan, sales of "Design of a Decade 1986/1996" are much higher than they have been certified for.[34]
Box sets:
Singles
Solo
| Year | Title | Chart Positions | Album | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot 100 | US Dance | US R&B | UK | CAN | JAP | GER | FR | |||
| 1982 | "Young Love" | 64 | -- | 6 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Janet Jackson |
| 1983 | "Come Give Your Love To Me" | 58 | 30 | 17 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Janet Jackson |
| 1983 | "Say You Do" | -- | 11 | 15 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Janet Jackson |
| 1983 | "Don't Mess Up This Good Thing" | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Janet Jackson |
| 1984 | "Don't Stand Another Chance" | 101 | 23 | 9 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Dream Street |
| 1984 | "Fast Girls" | -- | -- | 40 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Dream Street |
| 1985 | "Two To The Power Of Love" (with Cliff Richard) | -- | -- | -- | 83 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Dream Street |
| 1985 | "Start Anew" | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Non-album track |
| 1986 | "What Have You Done For Me Lately" | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | -- | Control |
| 1986 | "Nasty" | 3 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -- | Control |
| 1986 | "When I Think Of You" | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 36 | -- | Control |
| 1987 | "Control" | 5 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 20 | 4 | -- | -- | Control |
| 1987 | "Let's Wait Awhile" | 2 | -- | 1 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 34 | -- | Control |
| 1987 | "The Pleasure Principle" | 14 | 1 | 1 | 24 | -- | 9 | -- | -- | Control |
| 1987 | "Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)" | -- | -- | -- | 59 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Control |
| 1989 | "Miss You Much" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 16 | -- | Rhythm Nation 1814 |
| 1989 | "Rhythm Nation" | 2 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 83 | -- | Rhythm Nation 1814 |
| 1990 | "Escapade" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 23 | Rhythm Nation 1814 |
| 1990 | "Alright" | 4 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 43 | -- | Rhythm Nation 1814 |
| 1990 | "Come Back to Me" | 2 | -- | 2 | 20 | 7 | 2 | -- | -- | Rhythm Nation 1814 |
| 1990 | "Black Cat" | 1 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 34 | -- | Rhythm Nation 1814 |
| 1991 | "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" | 1 | 4 | 3 | 34 | 6 | 2 | -- | -- | Rhythm Nation 1814 |
| 1991 | "State of The World"^^ | 5 | 9 | 23 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | Rhythm Nation 1814 |
| 1992 | "The Best Things in Life Are Free" | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -- | 14 | -- | |
| 1993 | "That's The Way Love Goes" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 15 | janet. |
| 1993 | "If" | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 25 | -- | janet. |
| 1993 | "Again" | 1 | -- | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 29 | -- | janet. |
| 1994 | "Because of Love" | 10 | 4 | 9 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 72 | -- | janet. |
| 1994 | "Any Time, Any Place" | 2 | -- | 1 | 13 | 12 | 4 | -- | -- | janet. |
| 1994 | " Throb"^^ | 66 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | janet. |
| 1994 | "You Want This" | 8 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 90 | -- | janet. |
| 1995 | "Whoops Now/What'll I Do" | -- | -- | -- | 9 | -- | 4 | 11 | 3 | janet. |
| 1995 | "Scream" (with Michael Jackson) | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | Michael Jackson's History |
| 1995 | "Runaway" | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 25 | Design of a Decade |
| 1996 | "Twenty Foreplay" | -- | -- | -- | 22 | 27 | 11 | 74 | -- | Design of a Decade |
| 1996 | "The Best Things in Life Are Free" (97 Remix) | -- | -- | -- | 7 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Design of a Decade |
| 1997 | "Got 'Til It's Gone" (featuring Joni Mitchell and Q Tip)^^ | 36 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 17 | 11 | The Velvet Rope |
| 1997 | "Together Again" | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | The Velvet Rope |
| 1998 | "Go Deep"^^ | 28 | 1 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 72 | 22 | The Velvet Rope |
| 1998 | "I Get Lonely" | 3 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 3 | 75 | 72 | The Velvet Rope |
| 1998 | " You" | -- | -- | -- | -- | 18 | -- | -- | The Velvet Rope | |
| 1998 | "Every Time"^^ | 125 | -- | -- | 47 | -- | 4 | 67 | -- | The Velvet Rope |
| 2000 | "Doesn't Really Matter" | 1 | -- | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 40 | Nutty Professor II: The Klumps All For You |
| 2001 | "All For You" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 3 | All For You |
| 2001 | "Someone To Call My Lover" | 3 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 65 | 58 | All For You |
| 2002 | "Son Of A Gun" (featuring Missy Elliott and Carly Simon) | 28 | 7 | 26 | 13 | 12 | 22 | 69 | -- | All For You |
| 2002 | "Come on Get Up" | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 7 | -- | -- | All For You |
| 2004 | "Just A Little While"^^ | 45 | 1 | -- | 15 | 4 | 1 | 54 | 72 | Damita Jo |
| 2004 | "I Want You" | 57 | -- | 18 | 19 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Damita Jo |
| 2004 | "All Nite (Don't Stop)" # | 119 | 1 | 90 | 18 | -- | 30 | 48 | -- | Damita Jo |
| 2004 | "R&B Junkie" | -- | -- | 101 | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | Damita Jo |
| 2006 | "Call on Me" | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 20 Years Old |
Footnotes:
- ^^ = Not released for sale in the U.S./Radio Only Single in America. (Before Download Sales).
- ^^^ = "I Want You" is certified Platinum in the U.S. for shipment of 1,000,000 units.
- # = "All Nite (Don't Stop)" was released as a double a-side single in the UK with "I Want You"
Single appeareances
| Year | Title | Chart Positions | Album | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot 100 | US Dance | US R&B | UK | CAN | JAP | GER | FR | ||||
| 1987 | "Diamonds" (Herb Alpert featuring Janet Jackson and Lisa Keith) | 5 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 4 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1987 | "Making Love In The Rain" (with Lisa Keith and Herb Alpert) | 35 | -- | 7 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 1998 | "Luv Me Luv Me" ^^ (Shaggy featuring Janet Jackson) | 76 | -- | 22 | 5 | -- | -- | -- | -- | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | |
| 1999 | "Girlfriend/Boyfriend" ^^ (with Blackstreet) | 47 | -- | 19 | 11 | 25 | 4 | -- | 71 | Finally | |
| 1999 | "What's It Gonna Be?!" ^^ (Busta Rhymes featuring Janet Jackson) | 3 | -- | 1 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 42 | -- | ELE | |
| 2002 | "Feel It Boy" ^^ (Beenie Man featuring Janet Jackson) | 28 | -- | 31 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 72 | 47 | Feel It Boy | |
| 2005 | "Don't Worry" ^^ (Chingy featuring Janet Jackson) | -- | -- | 60 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
Footnotes:
- ^^ = Not released for sale in the U.S./Radio Only Single in America. (Before Download Sales).
Charting B-sides
- "Throb" was released as the B-Side to Janet's "Any Time, Any Place" Maxi Single in the U.S., it managed to gain enough airplay to reach #66 on Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay chart.
- "And On And On" was never serviced to radio. Radio stations started playing the song because it was the B-Side to the #2 Billboard Hot 100 hit "Any Time, Any Place", "And On And On", would end up going all the way to #12 on the Billboard Top 75 R&B Airplay chart, and #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay without ever being shipped to radio. It is very well possibly one of the biggest b-side's of the 90's that was never shipped to radio.
- "Where Are You Now" was not a b-side but an album track that radio played direct from the album "janet.". It reached #30 on Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay chart, just weeks after "That's The Way Love Goes" was released, the song spent 33 weeks on the Hot 100 Airplay chart, but never became a single. At the time, it was rare for radio stations to play an Album-Only track, but more rare for it to reach Top 40 and spend over 8 months on the Airplay chart.
DVD
Live in concert
| Cover | Information |
|---|---|
| File:VelvetRopeTourCover.JPG | The Velvet Rope Tour - Live In Concert
|
| File:Live In Hawai.JPG | Live in Hawaii
|
Video collection
| Cover | Information |
|---|---|
| File:JanetDamitaJo.JPG | From Janet to Damita Jo
|
Sources
- U.S. chart positions: Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, Hot Dance Music/Club Play.
- UK chart positions: CIN Singles Chart.
- Canada chart positions: The Record (prior to 1996), Nielsen SoundScan (1996 to present).
- Japan chart positions: Tokyo Hot 100.
- "Making Love in the Rain" source Soul System (info database fed from billboard.com) http://www.soulsystem.it/dettagliochart.asp?date=9/5/1987
- All sales are based on SoundScan Numbers, Press releases, Billboard Weekly, BMG Music Club and Year End Charts to determine the actual sales. A lot of Jackson's albums are undercertifed by the RIAA. Jackson's A&M albums and singles sales information comes from Ron Allen at Universal Music.
Trivia
| This article needs additional citations for verification. |
- With the release of only three albums in the 1990s, Jackson was named by Billboard as the second biggest artist of the decade, surpassing such artists as Whitney Houston, Garth Brooks, En Vogue, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Boyz II Men and only second to Mariah Carey.[citation needed]
- Jackson is the only female artist in history to have five back-to-back #1 studio albums on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart.[citation needed]
- Jackson is the first artist to have #1 singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. [35]
- Jackson is the only artist to place five or more top 10 singles on the Hot 100 from each of her three consecutive albums Control, Rhythm Nation 1814, and janet.
- Jackson is the only artist to have seven top five singles on the Hot 100 from one album, Rhythm Nation 1814. [36]
- With fifteen #1 hits on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, Jackson is the female artist with the second most #1 singles on that chart, second only to Aretha Franklin who has seventeen.[citation needed]
- In 1990 with the release of "Black Cat" from her "Rhythm Nation 1814" album, Jackson became first, and only, artist in Billboard history to score a #1 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, R&B chart, Dance chart, Adult Contemporary chart and, Rock chart. When "Black Cat" hit #1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock singles chart as well as Billboard's Hot 100, it was the first time a song hit #1 simultaneously on both of those charts.[citation needed]
- Jackson is the only artist to score 7 back to back #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. ("Control (Janet Jackson song)", "Let's Wait Awhile", "The Pleasure Principle", "Diamonds", Miss You Much", "Rhythm Nation", and "Escapade"). [37]
- Janet's biggest selling single worldwide is "Together Again", in 1998 it was the 4th biggest selling single of the year in Europe (2nd biggest for a female, only outsold by Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"). Worldwide sales according to Virgin Records are over 5.5 million copies, one of the largest selling singles ever from a female artist. "Together Again" spent nearly 50 weeks in the Top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100, it also remains one of the longest charting hits in Billboard history. "Together Again" sold over 760,000 in the UK making it one of the biggest selling singles ever in the UK from a female artist, "Together Again" sold over 600,000 copies in Germany also earned a Platinum certification just 2 months after it was released. "Together Again", also went Platinum in the Netherlands, France, Belgian, South Africa, Italy, and even went Double Platinum in New Zealand and Australia.[citation needed]
See also
- Janet Jackson videography
- For a list of Jackson's awards, see List of Janet Jackson awards and accolades
- For a list of her Grammy nominations, see Grammy nominations for Janet Jackson
- List of best selling music artists
- List of number-one hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart