She last topped the chart with 2001’s All For You. Although those are respectable numbers with today’s commercial climate, Unbreakable’s first week numbers are her lowest since her first two albums (her self-titled debut and Dream Street).
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And that’s exactly it: Jackson’s album, “Unbreakable“, is a reminder that dance music is more than fast, loud electronic beats pounding to the floor. She shared the lyrics to “The Great Forever” in August and in September she offered up the title track. Tamar Braxton‘s Calling All Lovers debuted at #5 with 43,000 units, 38,000 of which was pure album sales. Her latest album, Unbreakable, is the singer’s 7th album to attain the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200.
Well, not really. The album, which reunites the R&B songstress with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (“Control”, “Rhythm Nation 1814”), is indubitably one of the season’s recording must-haves. Only Barbra Streisand and Madonna have more chart-toppers for a female artist, with 10 and eight, respectively.
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Streisand and Jackson are also in rare company: along with Bruce Springsteen, the three performers are the only acts with No. 1 albums in the last four decades: ’10s, ’00s, ’90s and ’80s.
