Talk:Janet (album)

message: It's impossible that an album that had spend six weeks atop of the Billboard Top 200 sell just 150,000 units from a space between May 18, 1993 and August, 1993  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phonography (talk • contribs) 02:08, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Certification 

message: Does anybody know if this record was released on Vinyl? If so, could you please post a link? Thanks.Ga Be 19 07:34, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vinyl? 

message: As per Wikipedia naming and styling policy and guidelines, this album should be referred to as Janet. The lowercase title is ignored as it does not follow the rules of standard English, whereas the "." is eliminated as superfluous punctuation. Even if the title is supposed to be pronounced as Janet Period, this is not the actual written title, and thus the supposed pronunciation of the title can be dealt with by a reliably sourced sentence or two. The styling of the album name is noted in the lead, but subsequent reference to the title should use correct English as per WP:MOSTM and WP:NC. Nouse4aname (talk) 15:22, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not see the problem with it labeling "Janet, Period" as the pronunciation.  I Help, When I Can. [12] 07:18, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: According to the "The 90s: The Inside Stories From the Decade That Rocked" book released recently by Rolling Stone, "janet." is #58 in the list of 100 best 90s album.
Does anyone own the book, in order to add the source in the article?
Thank you :)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.194.152.93 (talk) 05:08, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 90s: The Inside Stories From the Decade That Rocked. 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Janet (album)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "bpi":
From Fearless (Taylor Swift album): 
From Janet Jackson discography: 
Reference named "RIAA":
From Dreaming of You (album): 
From What Have You Done for Me Lately: 
From Damita Jo (album): 
From Norah Jones: 
From Janet Jackson discography: 
From Industrial music: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 00:25, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Janet (album)]] 

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: not moved. Consensus is against moving to either proposed title. Jenks24 (talk) 16:14, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Janet (album) →  – Many editors in the RM directly above expressed that "Janet. (album)" could be a viable alternative to simply "Janet.", and I would boldly make the move myself, but per 's argument that the period-less version of the title is common in the press, IP contributor 's claim that this move would be "acceptable though not preferable", and no obvious support for it among anyone, I figured opening a new discussion would be the most appropriate course of action.
===Survey===
Sources that use the period include BET, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Allmusic, Jet, Rap-Up, Whitney Houston: We Love You Forever, Vibe, Notable Black American Women, Black American Biographies, and American R&B. Additionally, Vulture, Slant Magazine, Music of the 1990s, and Entertainment Weekly all note that the album title is pronounced "Janet, period" (which indicates that the period in the title is significant). Jackson's official website also makes note of the "period" pronunciation: "In 1993 Janet released her fifth album, 'janet.' which immediately shot to number one and reinvented Janet Jackson into Janet (period)." – Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 14:16, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  B2C, give it up. Just wait for one year or two to re-propose it. --George Ho (talk) 23:32, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
Post-close meta-comment:  Someone's advice above to "Just wait for one year or two to re-propose it" is a  idea. Biding one's time to be tendentious after one thinks enough people will have forgotten and you can get away with it is just WP:GAMING the system.  It's still disruptive jackassery to flog to death an issue on which consensus has not and is not likely to change.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  00:44, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 3 

message: Sources that use the period include BET, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Allmusic, Jet, Rap-Up, Whitney Houston: We Love You Forever, Vibe, Notable Black American Women, Black American Biographies, and American R&B. Additionally, Vulture, Slant Magazine, Music of the 1990s, and Entertainment Weekly all note that the album title is pronounced "Janet, period" (which indicates that the period in the title is significant). Jackson's official website also makes note of the "period" pronunciation: "In 1993 Janet released her fifth album, 'janet.' which immediately shot to number one and reinvented Janet Jackson into Janet (period)." – Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 14:16, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: The opposition to Janet. in the previous RM discussion is questionable.  I don't think anyone realized it's  better supported by policy than is the current title.  WP:NATURAL and WP:DIFFPUNCT in particular both support Janet. over Janet (album), and no policy or guideline supports  Janet (album) over Janet..  Certainly none were cited.  Well,  DIFFPUNCT and SONGDAB were cited, but that was incorrect.  The essence of DIFFPUNCT is Titles of distinct articles may differ only in their detail..  That's exactly what we have here, and SONGDAB simply says to use (album) when necessary; with Janet., it's not necessary.   , are you convinced?  I hereby propose:
* Janet (album) → Janet. --В²C ☎ 22:53, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  B2C, give it up. Just wait for one year or two to re-propose it. --George Ho (talk) 23:32, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.</div>
Post-close meta-comment:  Someone's advice above to "Just wait for one year or two to re-propose it" is a  idea. Biding one's time to be tendentious after one thinks enough people will have forgotten and you can get away with it is just WP:GAMING the system.  It's still disruptive jackassery to flog to death an issue on which consensus has not and is not likely to change.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  00:44, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternative: re-evaluate [[Janet.]]

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message: In the source it says OVER 14 million, a big OVER. Not including Control or RN1814. It sold close to 20 million. Please read this and your source after this. Dre7474 (talk) 01:10, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: it's been discussed here. It's been discussed on her discography page. Kellymoat (talk) 01:27, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

text: It shipped “over 8 million units” by March 31 1994, while she got certified for 6 million sales in the US a few days later, letting a mere 2 million sales for rest of the World sales. See the source here:  . This album is not a big catalog seller in USA, and still less out of there, it is out of catalog in 90% of the world since the nighties too.--88marcus (talk) 03:03, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The current sales of 14 million are more accurate. Her biggest market is United States, but after that, outside this country, the certifications are too low and a disappointment. Chrishonduras (Diskussion) 20:18, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  14 million source? 

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message: I've added this source in multiple times and still do not understand why it keeps getting changed back to 14 million. The source in which the 14 million was retrieved from is from n article from a non-major paper, who most likely got their information from here (Wikipedia). I think the link listed below is a much more reliable source for it's from Virgin Records- her record company she was with at the time of the release of this album- written by Richard Branson- the owner of the label and the man who signed her. If you scroll to the last paragraph it says, "She remained signed to Virgin for 17 years – a period in which she released five top selling albums, including ‘Janet’, which sold more than 20 million copies worldwide." 
https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/signing-janet-jackson  — Preceding unsigned comment added by KeithBivian (talk • contribs) 16:28, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  WW Sales of 20 Million 

message: Jackson's previous sound was industrial music? I don't think that's what that sentence is supposed to mean. Keith D. Tyler ¶ 07:43, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Industrial music? 

message: *I think 15 million is more accurate. Mediatraffic has those sales claims for the last four years.
Meddymarl (talk) 06:11, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: 15 million sales worldwide