Janet Jackson News

Billion reasons for Janet Jackson’s joy

According to Variety magazine, the 47-year-old sister of the late Michael Jackson has made more than £500million from her music alone, with about £300million earned through her world tours.

Janet Jackson Earns Billionaire Title

Janet Jackson can make a remix to Lil Wayne's "A Milli" and title her track "A Billi" since that's just what she is now: a billionaire.

Janet Jackson’s ‘janet.’ Turns 20: Backtracking

Backtracking is our recurring look back at the pop music that shaped our lives.

Janet Jackson Preps First New Music In Five Years

Days before her fifth album janet. celebrates its 20th anniversary , the enduring pop diva announces that she's prepping her first new music in five years.

Janet Jackson’s ‘Janet’: Join Idolator’s Twitter Re-Listening Party!

Like a moth to a flame that burns by the fire, our love for Janet Jackson is blind, can't you see our desire — to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Janet with another Twitter re-listening party.

This Weeks Future Funk Trilogy [Bondax | Janet Jackson | Bastille]

Bondax – Gold (Snakehips Bootleg) | This ones a keeper!

‘Face Time: Whitney Houston, “Queen of the Night”

Sure, the Man Who Would Be Babyface — Kenneth Edmonds — was born in 1959, but the singer, songwriter, producer, and all-around hit maker extraordinaire began taking baby steps up the Billboard charts the year Michael Jackson's Thriller dominated every chart.

Janet Jackson – Someone To Call My Lover (Giraffage Remix)

While I'm not really sold on the whole glitchy, minimal electro craze that's sweeping the blogosphere right now, Giraffage 's hypnotic R&B-infused sample pop is no limp hodgepodge of bleeps and bloops.

Hudson Mohawke – “Pleasure” (Janet Jackson Rework)

By now the entire world got used to his flawless productions pouring out continously and somehow he manages to raise the bar with every release.

Listen to Hudson Mohawke sample Janet Jackson on new track, “Pleasure”

Hudson Mohawke , one-half of the production project TNGHT and recent G.O.O.D. Music signee , has dropped a studio rendition of his live staple, "Pleasure".

Janet Jackson – If (Kaytranada Remix)

Yes, we've covered the work of trill wunderkind Kaytranada here at EMPT not too long ago.

MNEK “That’s The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson Refix)”

We're pretty sure that at some point MNEK is probably going to want us to focus on his original material, but if the teen-aged singer-songwriter-producer opted on releasing a couple more EP's (or, hell, LP's) worth of his amazing R&B diva "re-fixes" until that time, we wouldn't mad at all.

Janet Jackson Is Married

Janet Jackson secretly married her billionaire boyfriend Wissam Al Mana last year.

DJ, Make Me Wet: Janet Jackson’s “Throb” Gets Re-Rubbed for 2013

"Throb" is one of Janet Jackson 's most sizzling uptempo cuts–and certainly one of the most sexually explicit.

Janet Jackson 'planning family'

Janet Jackson is reportedly trying to have a baby with her fiancé.

Janet Jackson�s niece �boycotting the wedding�

Janet Jackson's niece Paris reportedly won't be celebrating the superstar's marriage to Wissam Al Mana. The 46-year-old singer began dating 37-year-old billionaire Wissam in 2009 after her split from longtime boyfriend Jermaine Dupri.

Janet Jackson 'gets engaged to Qatari billionaire'

Janet Jackson is reportedly engaged to her boyfriend Wissam Al Mana.

Janet Jackson – ‘Together Again’

In the time it took Janet Jackson to go from chart-topping R&B legend to tabloid fodder, her musical legacy seemed to take far more of a hit than her brothers' or that quintet that she was never a part of.

Kendrick Lamar, Janet Jackson: Rapper Begs Singer to Appear in 'Poetic Justice' Video

According to MTV's Rapfix , the rapper is hoping that Janet, whose film, Poetic Justice , inspired his single with the same name, will make a cameo on the track.

Your Daily Funk – Janet Jackson’s “Go Deep”

It had probably been at least five years since I'd heard anything from Janet's 1997 album, The Velvet Rope , until recently stumbling upon this Terry Lewis & Jimmy Jam-produced gem and immediately implementing it into regular rotation.

Dan Karim Janet Jackson Remix

Scout Niblett covers TLC (listen) and Janet Jackson, Holy Sons releasing comp LP, Om on tour now

Scout Niblett has released the new No More Nasty Scrubs 7" featuring a pair of reworked pop favorites.

Listen: Disclosure x Janet Jackson – Call On Me (ft. Nelly)

Disclosure have another rummage through their bag of classic R&B CDs up in their parents' attic and find this long-lost gem from Janet Jackson and a pre-beefcake Nelly , giving it a bit of a makeover and turning out a sped-up and warped masterclass in how to fill any dancefloor to the brim.

Janet Jackson – Come Back To Me (Atlantic Connection Mix)

Adding some nice extra flavours to Janet Jackson's classic, Atlantic Connection 's take on Come Back To Me should be a definite addition to your slow-jams playlist.

Kendrick Lamar & Drake Sample Janet Jackson On “Poetic Justice”: Listen

We know Kendrick Lamar spends a lot of time with Dr. Dre , but he still has time to collaborate with a whole host of other MCs, as we saw on the tracklist for good kid, m.A.A.d city .

How To Dress Well Doesn’t Hide Influences with Janet Jackson’s “Again”

Tom Krell, AKA How To Dress Well, has been on every Pitchfork readers' radar for the past couple of years.

Janet Jackson �didn�t delay Michael�s funeral�

Janet Jackson reportedly did not impede her late brother Michael's burial in any way.

Janet Jackson denies delaying Michael Jackson's burial

Janet Jackson has denied recent allegations that she delayed Michael Jackson's funeral over a financial dispute.

Streetwise: How To Dress Well Interviewed

In 1984, Martin Bell made Streetwise , a documentary about homeless teens living on the streets of Seattle.

Janet Jackson’s “That’s The Way Love Goes”: At Your Request

We're taking you on an escapade on today's Soundbytes with our latest installment of At Your Request .

Desert Island Discs: 1990s Rock and Pop Edition

Though the 1990s are generally associated with the shooting-star grunge movement, our desert island is apparently going to have precious few albums from the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains.

How To Dress Well tours, covers Janet Jackson

If you'd like to witness How To Dress Well – aka alt R&B artist Tom Krell – in a live scenario, look no further than details of his new EU tour.

How To Dress Well Covers Janet Jackson

How To Dress Well has posted a cover of Janet Jackson's 'Again' online - listen to it now.

How To Dress Well “Again (Janet Jackson Cover)”

Though it's often overlooked in a crowded, gold-and-platinum-plated catalog stacked with upbeat forever-jams, Janet Jackson pulled off one of her finest pure ballads with 1993′s "Again" , an Academy Award-nominated number (from her Tupac Shakur co-led big screen turn Poetic Justice ) that highlighted the fragile vulnerability of Janet's thinnish pipes to great effect as she related hesitant fears of reconciling with a former lover recently back in town.

Listen/Download: How to Dress Well Covers Janet Jackson

How to Dress Well has announced that along with his sophomore effort, Total Loss (due September 18), he will also be releasing a 7" record as part of a deluxe edition.

Listen: How To Dress Well Cover Janet Jackson’s “Again”