@ROYALKEV

The point (which you missed) is that acts like Metallica and the Eagles have been around for as long (or longer) than Janet....and still managed to debut with higher numbers AND sell millions with their most recent albums, while stale ass Discipline failed to even move 500k, despite it being released around the same time. Yet you argue that Janet's time in the business makes it some sort of commercial hindrance that justifies her dipping sales figures. Please. That's an excuse. Her albums are flopping because no one but her hardest core lemmings (which has shrunken over the years) are still interested in buying them. Her casual fans dropped her years ago and she's not winning over any new ones.

Janet always sold 3 million prior the Super Bowl? LMAO. Really? Did Janet Jackson and Dream Street sell 3 million? It's so sad and pathetic that you people continue to blame the Super Bowl for her decline, instead of facing that her music has turned to such shit that the general public hasn't been moved enough to waste their money on what she's peddling. Go to any CD review site, look over the reviews of Damita Jo, 20 Y.O., and Discipline and on average you'll see at least 50% of the comments are negative in tone. If the Super Bowl indeed hurt her, it's pitiful as hell that more than half a decade later she hasn't found a way to rebound from it. Tacky as her little strip show was, no one cares at this point.

As far as the sales of Damita Jo selling 1 million and 20 Y.O. being "platinum" goes....so what? Damita Jo only barely sold a million, moved two million less than the album before it and every one of it's singles missed the top 40. 20 Y.O. is "platinum" because Virgin shipped out a million copies to stores (which got shipped right back to the label.) I'm sure you're painfully aware of the album only moving 660k. Then Discipline, which was supposed to be her "comeback," does even less business than that; to add insult to injury, when she tried to pick up her face and TOUR, it was a complete washout. But I guess that American Idol performance and some flimsy gig headlining the Essence Festival is supposed to make up for OWN production being a bomb.

As far as it not making any sense to abandon a "#1 record" goes. *snicker* In the grand scheme of things, a "#1 record" means nothing if the sales aren't healthy, steady and consistent. Chrisette Michelle had a "#1 record." So the hell what? On the flipside, Whitney Houston's My Love Is Your Love failed to peak in the top 10, and still went on to sell multi-millions. That "#1 record" wasn't making IDJ any money. To continue sinking millions of money into promoting an album that the the public isn't buying would have been a stupid business move. That's like body work on a car was a busted engine. They saw that the returns weren't justifying any more promotion, and therefore opted to quit.

Damita Jo was a flop. 20 Y.O. was a flop. Discipline was a flop. Numbers One's was a flop. If you think about that for a second, you see that it brings her full circle 180 around to Janet Jackson and Dream Street, which were also flops.

Half of her discography has flopped. Out of her 12 albums (hits collections included), 6 of them bombed. Additionally, in the last 10 years, she's released 19 singles, and only 6 of them have entered the top 40, and she hasn't had a top 10 single since "Someone to Call My Lover" in 2001. What the fuck kind of a "Queen of Pop" is this? LMAO! Are you kidding? If she's the "queen," then she's presiding over a nearly empty kingdom.

I'm not in denial about anything. I see the truth for what it is. You're the one who seems desperate to make excuses for Janet's decade long string of failure (probably because you've attached part of your soul into being her fan, and therefore when she fails, it stings you too.) You can pretend that she hasn't lost her "swag" to save face for her (and yourself), but all your spinning and rationalizing doesn't negate the numbers...which tells a completely different story. In 10 years time, Janet's career went from being a luxury penthouse to an economy apartment on the bad side of town.