Janet Jackson has scored her seventh number one album, with Unbreakable having debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart. It’s a historic moment in more ways than one…
It means that Jackson is only the third act to have achieved number one albums in each of the last four decades – the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s and the 2010s. Unbreakable reached pole position by selling what Nielsen Music has recorded as 116,000 equivalent album sales, of which 109,000 were “pure” sales – though the full chart will not be published until tomorrow.
Jackson’s last chart-topping album in the US was Discipline in 2008. Her other five number one studio compilations are 2001’s All For You, 1997’s The Velvet Rope, 1993’s janet., 1989’s Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 and 1986’s Control. Barbra Streisand and Bruce Springsteen are the only other acts with number one albums in the last four decades.
You can buy Unbreakable on iTunes, while more details about the album feature in the current issue of AppleMagazine – you can get this issue by downloading our app and subscribing.
