@ Mandy

But what your failing to REALISE is those numbers aren’t that bad considering the LACK OF RADIO PLAY!!!!! Beyonce and Rihanna where constantly on rotation like every 10 minutes.

PAY ATTENTION!!!!

And that is for units Shipped…next week it will plummet…every store i have been in is stacked to the hilt with Discipline cds - the shelves for Erykah were empty…she shipped less so that is why she came in at no.2 - the second week of album sales is the true test of how the album is doing on the streets…

Congrats to Janet on her 6th #1 album….The album is crazy. Why is there always a comparison to other artists. Janet have been doing this for 25+ years. Everyone wants to talk about album sales etc. She is sitting on top of the charts…THATS MEANS: NO ONE SOLD MORE THAN HER THIS WEEK…..people who need to retire dont top the charts. I remember when Mary J. Blige released her album Love and Life….alot of people said she needed to retire…that album didn’t live up to many expectations….which is why at this point Mary doesn’t care “who feels it”……..the crazy part about people who are always HATING if you applied the same scrutiny to your work and life….would you be # 1?

LOL @75

@Mandy

Explain to me how a song can climb the charts when it’s not even being played on the radio? Damn, i’d say the fact that it’s even on the charts is a feat in itself…….Just askin…….

JSCENE, You are sooo right. I am so fedup with these idiots, I can’t even think straight. I am going to enjoy Janets cd, and the haters can listen to the crack selling 50 cent, and the disrespectful Soul ja boy.
Janet #1………… “she has them all thats why these girls out here hatin” HA HA HA HA HA LMAO !!!!!!!
100 million sold and still going strong

@ JSCENE and Vertex100

You just gotta laugh real hard at the haters and grease talkers i bet you half of them fools aint even heard the album and dont even pay attention to whats going on around them because if they did they would those numbers are ok for someone in her postion, if that was anybody they wouldn’t have even made the charts.

Label heads shouldn’t have ish to say about those sales. Virgin did a better job of promoting Janet last time around. 20 y.o had 3 months of promotion and build up. This time no one even knew Janet had an album coming out 3 months ago. The album seemed rushed to me and so its not surprising this is the results its gotten so far. As for only selling 178k, the Velvet Rope only sold 200k its first week. If any one of Janet’s singles catch on, she should be fine.

@nothing but love and vertex100

You guys are so right…..

I seen a preview of Janet’s new video moves for “rock with you”….i’ll be watching access granted tonight to see the full production though.

i hate to not this but ciara did 350 not to mention alicia mary beyonce. fact is janet is not relevant in this market. even rihanna did about 150

@84

And Janet sold 181,000, so what’s your point again?

@DJ MUTHA

Fu*ck the streets, them negroes buying bootlegs.LOL

The vital point being missed here, is the quality of Janet’s album….did she deliver. Yes, she did…finally and this preoccupation with number and sales is taking away from the fact that she did what she needed to do. Now, whether people go out and buy it , that’s on them. The industry and general public seems to have a hard time accepting that no ‘magic formula’ will ever produce the type of album sales we use to see back in the day. Things have drastically changed in the last few years with downloading and bootlegging….and the like. Bottom line, Discipline is a solid album, and if it was 2000 it would have went gold in the first week….but this is 2008 and you take what you can get. Janet delivered a great album, it’s fun…sexy…progressive and energetic. Sales or not….Janet still has it, and for a a forty plus year old woman…not to shabby Janet.

#84

Yous a fool cos they all had airplay Janet didn’t, so try again.

DJ Mutha
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 /
And that is for units Shipped…next week it will plummet…every store i have been in is stacked to the hilt with Discipline cds - the shelves for Erykah were empty…she shipped less so that is why she came in at no.2 - the second week of album sales is the true test of how the album is doing on the streets…
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And how exactly do you know just how many albums were shipped by IDJ and Motown? I’m sure both companies sent out at least 200,000 units, yet niether artist reached the 200,000 mark. If Erykah was selling out stores like you claim then she would have still been #1. And Judging from internet responses a lot of folks who purchased “NEWAMERYKAH” are not pleased. The people who purchased “Discipline” seem to be satisfied. But Niether artist has a hit on the radio and in all honesty they may both fall out of the top ten next week.

First off, JScene, you are my bitch! lmao *high fives you*

@ # 62 TOTALLY agree. People need to be schooled on how to treat Royalty.

@ #54 you didnt’ ‘burst my bubble’ #1 is still # 1. Period.

@ 66 Thank you very much!!!

LMAO @ # 70. That was perfect

And lastly, all that matters is that when you look at the Billboard Charts, and you look @ the # 1 Spot it says “Janet Jackson - Discipline”

And i’m gone……

@87-ENVYONE

I totally agree. She delivered in a very big way, the album is damn near flawless.

HATERS CAN TALK ALL THE SHIT THEY WANT, WON’T CHANGE THE FACTS.

JANET IS #1.

CONCRETE POOP NEEDS TO GET THEIR SHIT CORRECT. IDJ IS MORE THAN HAPPY WITH THE RELEASE, LA REID HIMSELF RELEASED A STATEMENT EARLIER PRAISING JANET’S SUCCESS.

IT’S A SAD, SAD DAY FOR THE HATERS.

THEY’RE PICKING UP THEIR FACES OFF THE FLOOR AND STILL TRYING TO TALK S*** LMAO!!!

JANET IS #1. DEAL WITH IT.

Discipline would’ve sold 500k+ too if it was released christmas week. Mary J had no choice but to release her album Christmas week because nothing on it was worth listening too. If she had waited until January or February she would’ve been lucky to sell 150k. December album sales for a #1 album are more than triple what album sales in February are. Album sales in general have become seasonal.

Okay I’m getting a little tired of people either talking about Janet needing to sit her ass down because she won’t sell as many records as she used to sell in the past or saying oh we’re worried that this next album won’t sell that much instead of one acknowledging the things that this woman has accomplished and even recognizing that she has broken records that still to this day have not been surpassed.

So what is Janet may never reach the success she had in the 90s, for this woman to have been around for 30+ years (including the first two albums and the television shows) and still command as much media attention, sell out magazines (US Weekly), still have album anticipation, and still debut in the top 2, that’s saying something. I mean how many people that have been around for a while and release albums now can still command as much attention as Janet? I mean Diana Ross releases an album and sure she gets some media attention but not as much as Janet and doesn’t even sell as much but who cares right? Cause she’s still Diana Ross. Stevie Wonder comes out with “A Time 2 Love,” it doesn’t sell that much and he doesn’t get as much media attention as Janet does, but so what he’s still Stevie Wonder, and the list goes on, so why can’t the same thing be said about Janet? And sure 20 Y.O didn’t sell a lot of units but “Call On Me,” was number one on the R&B charts for a few weeks which marked her 15th number one on that chart, “So Excited,” marked her 17th number one dance hit which I believe put her right behind Madonna for female artists who had number ones on that chart.

And I’m not gonna mention her other awards that she’s gotten outside of music, but let’s not forget the Quincy Jones award she got in 2004 (during the Damita Jo era), and the fact that Damita Jo was nominated for two grammys, an AMA, a BET award, and a Soul Train award so somebody liked that album enough to nominate it.

So all those saying Janet needs to sit down you go out there and do better. Whether her first week sales were low or not a number one is a number one.

:bows down to Mikey:

You tell em! lol

FROM AN ARTISTIC STANDPOINT IF JANET IS HAPPY WITH THAT ALBUM AND THE OTHER 2 FLOPS SHE PUT OUT, THAT’S GOOD FOR HER, SHE CAN REST WELL.

FROM A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE THE LAST 3 ALBUMS, INCLUDING THIS ONE DESPITE OPENING AT NUMBER ,ARE ALL FLOPS.

PEOPLE KEEP BRINGING UP PIRACY AND THE FACT THAT PEOPLE AREN’T BUYING ALBUMS ANYMORE…

OTHER’S HAVE MENTIONED ALICIA DID 700.000+ MARY’S LAST 2 ALBUMS DID 700,000+ AND 600,000+ MARIAH DID ALMOST 6,000,000 SINCE EMANCIPATION WAS RELEASED IN 05, EVEN KELLY CLARKSON AND CARRIE UNDERWOOD HAVE SOLD 5+ MILLION. JAY-Z, KANYE AND 50 ALL HAVE HIGHER OPENING FIRST WEEKS THAN THE LAST 3 JANET ALBUMS. USHER’S CONFESSIONS SOLD 8MIL IN THE US. TIMBERLAKES ALBUM SOLD 6.

THE MUSIC SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. IF JANET COULD DO A SONG LIKE “NO ONE” OR “BE WITHOUT YOU” OR “WE BELONG TOGETHER” OR SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF HER OWN “THAT’S THE WAY LOVE GOES” SHE’D SELL MORE UNITS… UNTIL THEN SHE’LL BASK IN MEDIOCRITY.

F.Y.I BOTH USHER AND MARIAH PUTTING OUT ALBUMS THIS SPRING. AND I’M CERTAIN THEY’LL BOTH DO BETTER NUMBERS AS WELL, BOTH OF THEIR SINGLES ARE ALREADY ON FIRE AND PROBABLY WILL BE BATTLING FOR NUMBER 1 THE NEXT FEW WEEKS

@ LUVSIT

ur welcome, im just lmao @ the haters reaching.

@ The Mayor

I’m sure Janet will work up some multi-platinum stats with this album, until then save your stats they are useless.

If Janet stans are so “excited” about Discipline hitting #1 on the charts, then what the hell are they doing here getting into an uproar with the haters about her sales? I guess that pretense is catching up to them.

Janet is the business and I love her CD. Erykah’s CD however I most definitely want my 9.98 back I should have to read something as the poster stated…..

People just need to stop being so damn negative, whether it’s with Janet, Madonna, Beyonce, Mariah, Britney or whoever. Instead of tearing these people down they need to lift them up. If you don’t like “Discipline,” then fine, but going on a tirade saying she needs to quit or she’s too old, nobody likes her and she needs to sit her ass down, I mean is all that really called for? I don’t see any of ya’ll out there doing what she does. If you think she can’t sing don’t listen, if you think she’s sings too much about sex don’t listen it’s as simple as that.

This woman has nothing to prove anymore, she’s had her great success. I mean nowadays people like Diana, Stevie, Patti, Aretha, etc they are legends in the game and they aren’t releasing albums to sell big numbers or prove anything to anybody. They’re releasing them because they want to and those that enjoy the music will buy the music and those that don’t should just shut up and keep it moving.

JANET IS AT THE TOP WHERE SHE DAMN BELONGS!!! Not to mention She has a single on the rise, Jumped from 22 up to number 7 and that if FANTASTIC………………how many other artists PERIOD from the 80’s are at NUMBER ONE in 2008???? will any others please stand up………Only a few are in that catagory…………………CONGRATS to JANET!!!!!!

Nobody stays number one forever, so just because Janet is no longer at the level of success that she was in the 80s and 90s and early 2000 that means she should just stop doing what she loves, cause people on this website and others are saying she needs to quit? Since when did you become her manager? And just like I said before, for this woman to have been around for as long as she had and people still pay attention to her at the level they still do, that’s saying something. The fact that Larry King is still interested in interviewing her for the entire hour I mean look at the positives and stop looking at the negatives. People are always looking at the glass being half empty instead of half full and we need to stop that shit.

MANDY……………..ummmmm without JANET’S presence in the Business years ago, None of them you have mentioned would have even been rellivent today, so thank JANET for paving the way for them……………they respect Janet so why don’t you bow down and respect her too, young girls really get jealous of JANET quick and scramble to find anything to try to scrutinize her with ……………….JANET being so FINE is one THREAT that most young girls who can’t understand why she so FINE at her age, and they mostly are not at their young age……(lay off the cheezeburgers)……..there are some Big GULS in this world now days and they just JEALOUS of the one and only HOT JANET………..sorry but I am just stating facts here.

Good for Janet but I prefer Erykah Her CD is hard as ever!!

Back To Basics was a phenomenal album. Christina is the best singer of the generation so she can do whatever she wants. She’s earned that right.

To compare Janet’s sales to Alicia’s and Mary’s is unfair;
firstly Alicia promoted the hell out of that album! weeks before it was released she was everywhere on tv, performing live. Janet wasn’t even allowed to do that until after her video was already released on tv. Same with Mary she promoted her album a lot too and thats one of the reasons it sold. “Just fine” is a fun song but it could have flopped, “No one” was an okay song but its nothing special again without promotion that could have flopped as well.

Nonetheless, I havent loved any of Janets recent songs because they’re not as good as they used to be back in the day and her old songs are CLASSICS.

Christina is a fantastic singer with a big voice but I think she is off-putting, she is dislikeable imo. She has always been a pop musician but manipulates R&B and other genres when its convinient for her to do so in increasing her sales. She still remains one of the best singers out there so I respect her for that, at least she has talent.

Congrats to Janet. Someone like Janet to have been in the business for 30+ years (unlike the Alicia’s and Beyonce’s, blacklisted by radio and MTV) and have an album debut at #1 is an accomplishment. I believe Island Def Jam are about longevity with this album.

@vertex100 when did you hear anyone say that madonna outdances janet. no white person i know thinks that. madonna has never been known for her dancing so don’t worry. janet has that on lock. janet is a better performer HOWEVER madonna has sold more records and on average, has better songs. both can’t really sing anyway

anyway this is good for janet. idk what the discussion is about. i loved her mtv commercials btw. this whole no publicity/number 1 spot thing has been done b4. it’s a good thing b/c to pull sales like that when hardly anyone knows you’re coming out with an album is good

alright erykah! alright janet!

Christina needs to go back dirty

I love how the stans claim all of sudden that folks didnt know Janet had an album coming out after her sales underperformed. She had plenty promotion that I saw. And didnt her and MTV kiss and make up? No she didnt have radio play because noone was checking for the song like that. I mean shes Janet Jackson how do you not know she has an album coming out esp being that shes still “relevant”. If it had been anyone else yall would be clowning but whatev!

Oh and Congrats Janet and Erykah!

I purchased erykah’s cd. Its funny she didn’t have much “commercial” competition. Erykah is NOT a commercial artist that get All the hype she doesn’t need it. I would have loved to c janet release her cd the same day as Mariah or Alicia. I mean I don’t hate JJ but I knew JJ stans would be comin her all boastin. They timed it just Right cuz the last time she released her CD with someone umm named LUDA.. he crushed her. NOT tryna start nuttin jus sayin

Wow Janet fans are off the chain today I am surprised Janet cd did that well. I only heard Feedback on the radio twice. The last Janet cd I bought was Damita Jo the public loses interest in an artist so quick. The internet really makes it hard for artist to sell decent numbers like in the past.
With that said I would love to see her concert.

erykah’s album is good too, but if you’re looking for another “baduism” or Mama’s Gun you probably won’t like it. to me has the same vibe as worldwide underground so if you liked that one go out and cop this one,

and i’m seriously wondering if it was such a good idea to have album sells available to the public, it seems to make people crazy……………………er.

Well at least Janet is number 1, I just think the public interest in Janet is not there anymore. With that said,Discipline is one of the best albums so far this year,no shade.

we will see what happens next week on the charts…

THE ONLY REASON JANET IS #1 BECAUSE NOBODY IS OUT
ALICIA AND BEYONCE USUALLY SALE ABOUT 400,000 TO 500,000 COPIES IN THEIR FIRST WEEK ALONG!
I BET JD BOUGHT HALF OF THEM ANYWAYS!

Congratulations to Janet and Erykah - Both sisters shining. And all of this fuss about Janet’s numbers - remember Janet set the standard. Her numbers are deep.

This first week foolishness does not measure talent or good music - it’s just a marketing scheme that have folk planning on Sunday to stand in line Tuesday when the store open to buy a CD that will still be on shelves Saturday for a lower price. The music sounds the same the second and third weeks - trust. But they want your money quick so they make it a contest.

There is no prize for getting the CD on the day it comes out - that’s about as productive as posting “first” on blogs.

The real numbers are in longevity. But this is a microwave era - get it now, get it quick.

Count it all up and the end and see who really compares.

I’m feeling Erykah’s CD better. Erykah can actually, Janet just has that mediocre singing voice, and I’m not hating or anything. Im just saying what type of music interests me.. lol! I would have to give Erykah’s cd 3 out of 4 stars.

Congrats to both of them though!

“I told you we ain’t dead yet, we been livin through your internet.”

Janet has the #1 album in the country…PERIOD! Congrats to her!

Congrats to Janet on her 6th #1 album on the billboard 100. This is quite the accomplishment since she is the only Black woman to accomplsh this. She and Madonna are now tied at second place behind Barbara Steinsand who has 10 #1 albums. In other good news for Miss Jackson, her current single “feedback” climed 34 spots on this weeks billboard hot 100 singles charts going from 53 to 19. It is also #6 on itunes charts. Congratulations are also in order for Erykah Badu who had her highest billboard 100 debut this week coming in at #2. Congrats also go out to Usher Raymond who currently has the #1 song in the country with “love in the club”. The song skyroketed 50 places from 50 to #1.

Its so good to see black people doing good things in the music industry.

[...] Speaker Box wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptMusic just isn’t selling the way it used to, so I’m not surprised, but I definitely did think the numbers would a be little higher for her. In any event, Erykah Badu’s new project, New Amerykah, Part One (4th World War) enter the charts … [...]

This isn’t really even about Janet for me. I bought the album the day it came out. It was HOT and I haven’t taken it out my stereo since that day.

This is about how hateful N!%%%a@!! have become. There was a time when we had figured out that we had to celebrate all black artists but ESPECIALLY our artists who we saw white america had treated unfairly and blacklisted. I get the impression from the ignorant tenor of most of the posts that there a lot of very young, inexperienced people posting on this site–maybe you aren’t old enough to have lived through blacklisting, racism, and the days when there WAS NO black female superstar on TV period.

Your precious Beyonce and Rihanna (both of whom I am proud of) would not enjoy the success they enjoy had it not been for a little girl named JANET JACKSON kicking down the doors to POP success for black female entertainers.

That is why she is called an ICON.

I tried to remember who was the black female superstar in music in my generation before JAnet–and you know what? WE DIDNT HAVE ONE! She was the FIRST!

We had singers but we had nobody that was on the stage and in videos just putting the smack down on the performance tip.

So if you wonder why Beyonce and Rihanna and Ciara keep saying they pay homage to JAnet–its because they are smart enough to know the history of their field of work.

YOU “IGNANT MOFOS” need to be tied up and forced to watch The BOONDOCKS for 10 or 15 years straight because you obviously are too IGNANT to read about it in a book–or learn it from people who lived it.

I’m out. TIred of being reminded everyday of how damn stupid black people have become.

Shameful Shit

Ignorant disrespectful uneducated little snot nosed idiots. Shameful and should be ashamed. Dumb a$$es.

Excuse me but for all the haterz talkin shit in here about Miss Janet not bein interesting anymore, yall fuckin wack and mad becuz she’s number1, yall need to fall the fuck back n stop tlkin shit, theres a whole lot of ppl that want JANET and dammit she’s rockin the nation, im so tired of this has’been bullshit, itz gettin old, find sumthin new, She will never be a has’been so git ya shit right becuz she’s an alwayz-will-be legend and aint shit comin in the way of that so you can keep ya fake ass Beyonce barbie doll up n coming wanna be stars, becuz half these bitchez aint even maken hitz that will get them that far, Janet’s “Control” took over soon as that shit came out, these damn artists today dont make it that far til they git to their 5th damn cd which is like when their played out! I doubt it that half these singers and rappers out today make it past 25 or 30.

@ 125, bless you. The truth has been spoken !!
Congrates to Janet 100 million albums sold and still going strong !!!!!!!!!!!!

Funny how folks is actin today knowing damn well, THIS IS JANET, SHE IS SUPPOSED TO DO 330K, COME ON STOP LYIN TO YOURSELVES. ANYWAY I LIKE JJ AND I’M NOT EVEN A X-TINA FAN BUT I’M LOOKING FOWARD TO HER NEXT ALBUM BECAUSE I AINT LIKE THE SINGLES FROM B2B! BUT LIKE I ALWAYS SAY, SHE, BEYONCE & ALICIA ARE THE BEST FEMALE ARTISTS UNDER 30!!! THEY WILL DO 300K-700K!!!

Exactly #128. 181,000 copies sold in it’s first week for an artist like Janet is HORRIBLE. It’s only her stans who are in denial. She had absolutely no competition and her fans even bought mulitple copies just to get her to #1. If Janet had gone against the other heavy weight female singers who are dropping albums next month, she wouIdn’t have had a chance.

I just read that the album is expected to drop way below and sell between 65-70k. I’m sorry but I don’t think it’s possible for this album to have longevity, unless they do a re-release. Like I said way earlier, the general public isn’t supporting Janet. You can just tell that it’s her core audience.

Her stans will say that I’m hating but it’s far from that. I used to be a huge fan of Janet’s. She hasn’t made anything remotely great since TVR. I still have respect for her and I even purchased Discipline.

I didn’t know Janet was supposed to do anything but put out good music. Discipline is it for me. 20yo, there were some cuts on there but nowhere near the level of discipline. Anyways everyone who knows about the first quarter knows it’s slow. You still have to look at Billboard and see her in the number one spot no matter what. For all those fools who said feedback is wack and it won’t got top 20 it just landed in the #19 spot. Janet just set another record for blak females in the gmae to aspire to, 6 #1 albums or plus. When Beyonce, Rihanna, Ciara, Christina, Alicia(who I think will very soon) break that then come holler at me. #1#1#1#1#1#1#1#1#1#1#1#1#1#1#1#1#! is what the business is. So all the haters who are saying the numbers are low are the same fools who said this wouldn’t be a number one album, you’ve just changed your tune.

@129

Hoe sit down!

Congrats JANET!

I’m sorry have ya’ll actually SEEN RIhanna Album sells?? Cuz ya’ll would NOT be mentioning her if ya’ll did. She sold the SAME amount as Janet her album and came out at #2 Remember T-Pain was #1.

SHe JUST went Platinum a couple of weeks ago and her album been out since June SHe is currently at 1.000 something ( US) where as Keyshia COle is almost 1.2 and Keyshia album came out in September. So DO NOT MENTION RIHANNA cuz her albums don’t sell well.

All I can say is wow. Albums are selling? Please say some albums are selling depending on how much the record company buys lol. I guess they didn’t buy much of janet’s album. Too bad it only did that cause it is a nice album and coming off of 20 Yo she did better than usual. I thought it was too little too late with the promo department. Feedback could have got a much better reception but nobody was pushing it then not even a week before her album hits stores the promo kicks in. She is lucky it sold that much cause somebody really dropped the ball on her.

Christina is a great singer but that last album was not that good to me. That style of music should be left to the people who were really there to respect it . Kinda like you had to be there moment. It just got on my last nerves. I don’t know why I can’t get into her like Pink but hey it is whatever. Good luck to her .

I’m glad Janet at least got the number 1 spot, she is a legend and it sucks that people are counting her out. I don’t think the album is strong enough to become a hit. You have Mariah and Madonna coming out soon and they are going to be coming hard. Hopefully Janet can get some radio play for her upcoming singles. They record company rushed her back into the studio and the album was complete in less then four months. She should have done at least a year of recording to stack up some hits. Look at Mariah, she has been recording for a year for this upcoming album and from what I’ve read, it will be better than the last one. Hopefully they will give her more time in the studio for the next album and give her proper promotion instead of a week before the album instead of rushing her out and just trying to make a quick buck off of her name which is what sold the 178 thousand copies.

Christina, she can sing but she has the oversinging syndrome. She thinks she is up to par with Mariah and Whitney but she has a long way to go. Her oversinging caused her to hit a big flat note at the Grammy’s when doing a tribute for James Brown. Her material has never been that great, people say it was the change of sound but look at Amy Winehouse, she has a throwback sound as welll but her songs are way hotter than any of Christina’s and her album just shot up the charts again after those Grammy wins which usually happens.

#134Christina is a better singer than Mariah is now. Um you obviously haven’t seen James Brown Sing the song he hit the same flat note. That is how he song is supposed to be sung. Chirstina has a HUGE respect for that type of music she’s been singing it since she was a little kid there are plenty of videos of her Singging Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald as a child. So no disrespect , but stop talking outta your ass.

#135 Christina is a better singer than Mariah is now. Have you heard James Brown sing the song? You obviously haven’t he hit the same flat note that she did at the Grammies ANY Knowledgeable person would know that. RESPECT for the music LMAO she knows a lot more about than you do I guarantee you that she’s been listening to Etta James, Ella , Nina since she was a child and there are videos to prove it. So stop talking outta yo ass.

Christina has 5 grammies vs. Britney’s 1 so who has the better music. EXACTLY. Christina IS a better singer than Mariah NOW. Christina probably knows more about that time period than YOU do. LIke Ally said you obviously have never heard James Brown sing that song live that just shows how much you know. NOTHING. Patti Labelle called Christina the BEST singer of HER generation so I would take her advice on Christina instead of yours. As far as Janet Congrats record sales aren’t much nowadays anyway ..look at RIhanna hit songs and she just now made platinum WTF. Keyshia Cole has sold more than her.

Alicia Keys album was WACK!!! Boring, clichéd soulless mess. I couldnt stomach an entire listen, it was too dull.

I luv Erykah’s CD because it is not spoon fed. y ou really have to listen to her message and dispher I love Erykah’s CD because it is not spoon fed. You really have to listen to her message and decipher it for yourself. People are quick to write off what they don’t understand because it doesn’t come to them easily. She trying to wake people up and expand your mental thought process.

Janet fans, this is not about her 25 years in entertainment. It’s about the sales of her most recent album which I am commenting on. And based on the sales and comparing it to the sales of other female singers in the same genre, she had a bad week. That’s all. To say that the successes of Mary j’s album is due to the holiday season is unreasonable. Acts like Daughtry also released their album in December of 06 and had disappointing sales, even though they managed to stay on the charts for a long time and managed to do well.

I’m not telling her to sit her ass down or retire. No, I just think she should rethink her formula because this album sold lesser than 20 Y.O.

Janet had a ton of promotion…the week of the album’s release…if they’re unhappy with the low sales they should check their timing…its a solid album and ye ppl do still have higher numbers, but their promo is also on point…

Janet is ok she lost her touch i mean she scared 2 show her abs dat she wrk so hard 4 and luv iz dat shit

There’s no need for Janet to make hit records anymore, she done it all! All she have to do is kick back and be blessed that she is still in the game of making music, look beautiful, continue her acting career, and live the good life! The music industry has been good to Janet, I think she just in the game to try something different, new experience, and experience what its like to work with new, talent, different producers. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis wasn’t trying anything new with Janet; so her decision to leave them was a good move. People are saying that she’s to old, I don’t hear anyone say anything about Madonna old ass! JANET STILL ROCKS!!!!!