Happy #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay!

This day was created by @MatthewACherry back in 2018 to right a wrong and to celebrate one of our greatest artistic icons, #JanetJackson!

We appreciate Janet Jackson because her artistic offerings have been a balm to millions, she's paved the way for so many other artists, her philanthropy is so generous, and she advocated on behalf of marginalized people before it was trendy.

We appreciate Janet Jackson for her strength and we appreciate her for her vulnerability. But most of all, we appreciate her because she is here, we love her, and we believe that people should be given their flowers when they can truly appreciate them.

And Janet Jackson is so very worthy of flowers. Just look at what she has accomplished and the trails she has blazed in her artistic endeavors:

Janet Jackson is a songwriter and a producer in addition to being a song stylist/singer and dancer. She is the first black woman ever nominated for Producer of the Year at the Grammy Awards (1989).

Jackson is the first and only artist to have been nominated in five genres of music at the Grammys (Pop, Rock, Rap, R&B, and Dance).

She holds the record for most American Music Awards nominations from one album (with twelve) for CONTROL.

She is the first woman to sweep an awards show (Billboard Awards, 1990).

Jackson holds the record for the most Billboard Awards won in a single night (14).

Jackson holds the record for the most Billboard Awards (33).

She is the first artist to win Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist and Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist, and Favorite Dance Artist at the American Music Awards.

She is the first artist to be awarded MTV Icon.

Janet Jackson is the most awarded living entertainer in history.

In 1986, at the age of 20, Jackson became the youngest Black woman to hit number 1 on Billboard's 200 Albums Chart.

Jackson is the first woman to debut at #1 on the Top 200 albums chart in the Soundscan era.

Jackson has had the most lucrative recording contract in history TWICE.

She is the first woman to have the #1 selling album of the year (JANET JACKSON’S RHYTHM NATION: 1814 1814, 1990)

Jackson is the only woman to have five back-to-back number #1 albums.

Jackson is the only black woman to have a #1 album four decades in a row.

CONTROL is listed by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 200 Definitive Albums of All Time.

JANET JACKSON’S RHYTHM NATION: 1814 is the only album in history to produce No. 1 hits on the Hot 100 chart in three separate calendar years (1989, 1990, and 1991).

janet. is listed by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers & Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 200 Definitive Albums of All Time.

Jackson has seven number one albums. janet. (1993), THE VELVET ROPE (1997), ALL FOR YOU (2001), DISCIPLINE (2008), and UNBREAKBLE (2015) each debuted at number one.

She has eight consecutive platinum albums.

On February 6, 2021, Jackson's breakout album, CONTROL, returned to the number 1 album sales spot after 35 years.

She is the first and only woman to have five #1 R&B singles from one album (CONTROL), which is the most R&B #1’s off one album.

Jackson is the only artist in history to have seven consecutive top 5 singles from one album.

Jackson is the only black woman ever to top the Mainstream Rock Singles Chart (Her song "Black Cat" hit #1 in 1990).

She is the first artist to score a number-one hit simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 and Mainstream Rock Singles charts with "Black Cat."

She is the first artist to have a single debut atop the R&B Airplay Charts (“That’s The Way Loves Goes,” 1993).

She is the first artist to have five or more Top 10 hits from three consecutive albums (CONTROL, JANET JACKSON’S RHYTHM NATION: 1814, and janet.).

She is the first woman in history to debut a song in the top 10 ("Runaway," 1995).

She is the first artist to have a single simultaneously top the Hot 100, R&B, and dance charts ("All For You," 2001).

"All For You" became the first and only single in music history to be added to every possible American radio station in its first week.

"All For You" became the first single to be added to every possible station, in the US, Japan, Asia, France & South Africa in its first week.

In 2015, “No Sleeep” became Jackson’s 40th entry on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, spending 12 nonconsecutive weeks at number 1 on the Adult R&B Song charts becoming her most successful Adult R&B Song (which was previously “I Get Lonely”).

Jackson ruled over four formats, Top 40, crossover, rhythmic and urban radio, etc. No one has ever ruled more than three formats.

She is the first artist to produce four #1 hits on the Dance Charts.

Jackson holds the record for the most consecutive top 10 hits by any artist on the Billboard Charts (18).

Jackson holds the record for the most consecutive Top 10 hits on the R&B chart (25).

Jackson holds the record for most gold singles for a Black woman.

Jackson holds the record for the most successful debut tour of any artist (THE RHYTHM NATION TOUR), selling out on three continents (North America, Europe, and Asia).

Jackson holds the record for the fastest sellout in the history of the Tokyo Dome, 48,000 seats with four shows which sold out in a record seven minutes.

Jackson broke and set stadium attendance records at the Aloha Stadium in Hawaii with The Velvet Rope Tour and the All For You Tour.

The live HBO broadcast of THE VELVET ROPE TOUR garnered a total of 15 million viewers outperforming ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX in HBO homes, in addition to 13 Emmy nominations including one win.

Jackson's Velvet Rope Tour broke house records in Washington, D.C., Detroit, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Salt Lake City. Jackson has topped the Top Dance Songs chart 20 times. She is the most awarded living artist in history.

Jackson’ 2019 METAMORPHOSIS Las Vegas Residency earned $12.9 million within 18 dates, making the residency one of the most lucrative to emerge from Vegas' live music performances to date, scoring the fifth highest average gross in a Las Vegas Residency opening run by a woman...

...with just that short run.

She is the first artist to have #1's on various billboard charts spanning the 80's, 90's, 00's and 10's.

She has sold over 160 million records worldwide and has spent over 300 weeks at #1.

Jackson is BMG's Biggest Selling Woman Artist in the club.
According to Billboard, she is the seventh greatest recording artist of all time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_chart_achievements_and_milestones#Top_10_artists_of_all_time_(1958%E2%80%932018).

Today, we celebrate the intelligent, super-talented, compassionate, humorous, beautiful, truth-telling, groundbreaking Black woman known as Janet Jackson!

Once, again, #HappyJanetJacksonAppreciationDay!

P.S. Janet Jackson pretty much invented YouTube so they should run her her check. https://www.businessinsider.com/idea-for-youtube-came-from-janet-jackson-nipplegate-2015-10

P.P.S. "Made for Now," Jackson's most recent single, released in 2018, peaked at number one on the Dance Club Songs Chart, becoming her 20th song to top that chart.

P.P.P.S. Today, we are streaming Janet's Jackson's album, DAMITA JO, an album that would have made it to #1 and produced hit singles if not for the misogynoir that led to her being banned by industry execs. Stream or purchase Damita Jo wherever available. https://open.spotify.com/album/0VMneW8zRFEqc2RffLf88S?si=rxC9dHvCTOOaRRH3wf8hFQ

#DamitaJo is such an underrated album. Standout tracks: "Strawberry Bounce," "My Baby," "Island Life," "All Nite (Don't Stop)," "R&B Junkie," and "Moist," among others.