Janet Jackson

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Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress. Born and raised in Gary, Indiana, she is the youngest member of the Jackson family, whose musical careers have influenced popular culture for over four decades. Initially starting her career as an actress with the television series entitled The Jacksons—a variety show staring herself and her eight older siblings—which debuted in 1976, Jackson went on to star in other television shows including Good Times, Diff'rent Strokes, and Fame. After launching her recording career in 1982, Jackson found recordbreaking sucess, producing five consecutive number one studio albums, beginning with the release of Control (1986) and followed by Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989), janet. (1993), The Velvet Rope (1997), and All for You (2001).

Since 1986, Jackson has scored thirty-one number-one singles on various Billboard charts, and is the only recording artist ever to score five or more top ten singles from three consecutive albums, which include "Control," "Rhythm Nation," "Black Cat," and "Again." With sixteen number one hits on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, Jackson is the female artist with the second most number one singles on that chart, second only to Aretha Franklin who has eighteen. Jackson has scored eighteen top ten singles in Europe, and is also the first artist to have number one singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart across the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.

Her recent album Discipline (2008) became her sixth number one album placing her in second place among female artists for the most number one albums behind Barbra Streisand's eight chart-toppers, while her recent film Why Did I Get Married? (2007), for which she won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, became her third consecutive film to open at number one at the box office, following Poetic Justice (1993) and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000). In addition to her commercial accomplishments, Jackson has won five Grammy Awards, received a nomination at the 66th Academy Awards, has won more than thirty Billboard Music Awards, and has been named one of the Top 10 Richest Women in Entertainment by Forbes magazine

While Jackson is listed by the Recording Industry Association of America as the eleventh top-selling female artist in America with 26 million certified albums, according to Billboard magazine she is one of the top ten selling artists in the history of contemporary music;ranked as the ninth most successful act in the history of rock and roll and the second most successful female artist in pop music history, selling over 100 million albums worldwide.Jackson has also been dubbed a "Queen of Pop" by various media outlets, a title held second only to Madonna.

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