Janet JacksonBest Janet Jackson Albums Ranked
8.3
Avg Score
35
Opinions
13
Albums
9
Reviewers
Summary from 35 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Janet Jackson's catalog across 13 albums from 35 opinions, with an overall average of 8.3/10. The top-rated Janet Jackson album is Control (1986) with a 8.9/10 average from 8 ratings, followed by The Velvet Rope and Rhythm Nation 1814. The discography on Wavelength spans 1982 to 2023. Love Will Never Do (Without You) ranks as the highest-rated Janet Jackson song on Wavelength with a 10.0/10 average.
The Velvet Rope
“After three blockbuster albums, the megastar turned introspective, plumbing the depths of depression. Considered a disappointment at the time, it’s become one of her most beloved LPs.”
Rhythm Nation 1814
“After her 1986 album Control and its assertion of her identity as an artist, Janet Jackson was thinking big. Rhythm Nation 1814 is a thrilling mix of social messaging and dancefloor pleasure.”
Unbreakable
“Unbreakable is Janet Jackson's first album since Michael Jackson’s death in 2009 and the dissolution of her relationship with Jermaine Dupri. It's a synthesis of ideas she's collected and tested throughout her career. These are giddy, grateful grown-woman songs; like Janet, they are timeless.”
Rhythm Nation 1814
“Janet Jackson’s last album opened with a declaration of independence: "This is a story about control," she announced. "My control." Three years later, her follow-up casts a wider net, moving from personal freedom to more universal concerns — injustice, illiteracy, crime, drugs — without missing a beat. Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation (a title that puts […]”
Damita Jo
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Janet Jackson’s 2004 album, a lush and preeminently sex-positive album that deserves a reappraisal.”
Discipline
“Janet Jackson has abandoned the plastic R&B of 2006’s 20 Y.O. for a sexier brand of digitized megapop. On her Def Jam debut, the beats are as crass and processed as Jackson’s heavy breathing, so she sounds more like a sex droid than a blow-up doll, which is way hotter — for starters, sex droids […]”
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