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Jackson
was the youngest of the nine
children in the family that produced
the
Jackson Five
(including
Michael
Jackson,
Jermaine
Jackson
and
LaToya
Jackson). When she was four
years old, the family moved to the
Los Angeles area; three years later
she made her performing debut in Las
Vegas with her brothers. At the age
of nine, she joined them on a
television special. She was cast in
the US television programmes
Good Times
from 1977-79 and
Diff'rent Strokes
from 1981-82. She signed to
A&M Records
in 1982 and recorded her self-titled
debut album, followed by
Dream Street
in 1984. Both albums sold only
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Jackson's breakthrough came in 1986
with
Control,
which reached number 1 and produced
an astonishing five US Top 10
singles (including the chart-topping
"When I Think Of You") and three UK
Top 10 singles. The album was
ultimately certified quadruple
platinum for sales of over four
million copies in the USA. Jackson
followed up in 1989 with
Janet Jackson's
Rhythm Nation 1814, another
quadruple platinum album, which
yielded the US chart-topping singles
"Miss You Much", "Escapade", "Black
Cat", and "Love Will Never Do
(Without You)". Jackson undertook
her first concert tour in 1990. By
the end of the year she had scooped
eight
Billboard
awards, including Top R&B Albums and
Singles Artist, Best Pop and R&B
Album Award for
Rhythm
Nation 1814, and Top Hot 100
Singles Artist. The success of the
Rhythm
Nation 1814 album continued
into 1991 when, in January, Jackson
became the first artist in history
to have culled from one album seven
Top 5 singles in the
Billboard
chart.
Jackson's commercial peak continued
into the 90s with the unprecedented
performance of her
Virgin Records'
debut
Janet,
which entered the US album chart at
number 1, beating brother Michael's
sales record by selling 350,000
copies in its first week. Further US
chart-topping singles included
"That's The Way Love Goes" (number 1
for eight weeks) and "Again", which
were also UK bestsellers. The
compilation album
Design Of A
Decade
was another huge seller, and
followed her collaboration with
brother Michael on "Scream".
In
1997, and now performing as simply
Janet, Jackson released her first
studio set in four years,
The Velvet
Rope, a deeply personal
album that dealt frankly with her
much publicised emotional breakdown.
The album entered the charts at
number 1 in America, while the
single "Together Again" topped the
Hot 100 in January 1998. A
collaboration with
BLACKstreet, "I Get Lonely",
was a US number 3 hit in May. Both
tracks also reached the UK Top 5.
"Doesn't Really Matter", a song
featured in the soundtrack to
Nutty Professor 2:
The Klumps, rose to the top
of the US charts in August 2000.
Jackson's new studio album,
All For You
was premiered the following April by
the chart-topping title track.
In
February 2004, Jackson prompted a
fit of moral outrage in America
when, live on prime time television,
her right breast was exposed by
Justin
Timberlake during a sexually
charged duet at the Super Bowl
half-time show.
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