In reply to Bojan.

This is bang on, and applies to many artists not just janet. Record execs and promoters talk about selling ‘10, 20, 30’ etc Million records’ but that number includes singles. Janet always sold well in both the singles and the albums categories so the combined total is simply stellar. The Janet era altogether did sell 20-25M records but half of that was singles. Six singles were released domestically and seven internationally. All were Top 10 hits in USA and Top 20 in most major global markets.

Where Janet’s sales record does suffer is from underrepresented RIAA certified Platinum albums. She has several of the best ever selling albums via the late 80’s - early 00’s magazine music clubs such as BMG. In these clubs you got 5-10 albums for the price of 1 on sign up but then had to buy 1-2 per month at full price before qualifying for more discounts later. The RIAA doesn’t recognize those sales at all, which cuts 1-2 M each off the sales of Control, RN1814, Janet., DOAD, TVR and All For You albums. This is unfair as they later did count the sales of people like Lady Gaga who sold their albums for $0.99 - $3 in the first week.