I heard Janet was very sick with a flu when the album came out and promotion was limited because of that. I think it is VERY STRANGE that an older artist like Janet would put out Discipline, when she did not write any songs on the CD. All of her previous CDs she was listed as a songwriter composing over 80% of the lyrics on each album.

I agree that the label is not at fault for Janet's low sales. Janet had a huge budget that was spent on promoting feedback and marketing the album (VH1/MTV). If you were in charge of a label you would pull the plug on her budget too since her opening sales were a big dissapointment.