CBS and Dick Clark Productions introduced that Award-winning, Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame®️ Inductee and philanthropist Janet Jackson will obtain the celebrated ICON Award on the “2025 American Music Awards,” an honor bestowed upon an artist whose music has had simple cultural and international affect over the music business. The worldwide phenomenon and 11-time American Music Award-winner, can even take to the stage, marking her first tv efficiency since 2018. This yr’s American Music Awards will kick off summer time with host Jennifer Lopez stay from the all-new luxurious resort, Fontainebleau Las Vegas, on Memorial Day, Monday, Might 26. Promising to be an evening of unforgettable performances, together with from Lopez herself, the 51st AMAs will air stay coast to coast at 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT on the CBS Tv Community, and stream on Paramount+ within the U.S.* Tickets to the star-studded present can be found now on Ticketmaster.
Celebrating 50 years within the music business, Jackson remains to be making an influence together with the current viral craze on social media of her Billboard 100 high-energy dance monitor “Somebody To Name My Lover” that catapulted the music again on the Billboard charts, almost 24 years after its unique launch, reaching #3 on the R&B Digital Songs chart and attaining a 1,400% achieve in year-to-date U.S. on-demand streams for the hit in accordance with Luminate. “Somebody to Name My Lover” initially debuted at #3 and was the second single from her chart-topping, seventh studio album, “All For You.”
She’s additionally set to kick off yet one more leg of her wildly fashionable Las Vegas residency, JANET JACKSON: LAS VEGAS, returning to the Resorts World Theatre stage on Might 21, 2025 for a six-show run by means of Might 31, 2025.
Janet Jackson is among the most influential entertainers of the fashionable period. Her music has gained her 5 GRAMMY® Awards, 2 Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a nomination for an Academy Award together with dozens of American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards and Billboard Music Awards. She has acquired accolades as an actress as nicely together with the NAACP Finest Supporting Actor award. Janet is a broadcast creator, dancer, businessperson, philanthropist and one in all biggest-selling artists in fashionable music historical past. With gross sales of over 180 million information worldwide, Janet Jackson stands as one of many best-selling artists of all time with a string of hits which have left an indelible impression on popular culture. She is the document holder for the largest promoting debut tour in historical past and is the primary lady to debut within the high 10 of the Sizzling 100 chart. She additionally stands as one in all solely 4 artists to have a #1 album on the Billboard 200 within the Eighties, ’90s, ’00s and ’10s — alongside Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and U2. Even as we speak she continues to make an simple influence. In 2018, her final single, “Made for Now” with Daddy Yankee, launched by her personal Rhythm Nation Data, hit #1 on Billboard’s Dance Membership Songs chart making it her twentieth single on the chart within the span of her profession. In 2019, she was inducted the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame alongside her brothers and in that very same yr her critically acclaimed Las Vegas residency, “Metamorphosis” closed out to document breaking ticket gross sales with solely 18 dates on the Park MGM’s Park Theater. As reported by Billboard Boxscore, the legendary singer, dancer, songwriter, producer, and actress was among the many largest Vegas performers of the 2010s, forward of Celine Dion (2011), Britney Spears (2013) and the Backstreet Boys (2017). Her critically acclaimed and award successful documentary “Janet Jackson.” introduced in over 20 million viewers in a single week.
On February 4, 2021, Janet Jackson’s iconic mega platinum-selling third album Management turned 35. The album additionally returned to the highest of the charts, hitting #1 on the Apple High 40 US Pop Album chart. Led by 5 chart-busting hit singles — “What Have You Finished for Me These days,” “Nasty,” “Management,” “After I Assume Of You,” —with their complementary, tightly choreographed music movies — and “Let’s Wait Awhile,” Management turned Jackson’s first No. 1 Pop album. The album additionally made Billboard chart historical past as the primary by a girl to yield 5 high 10-charting singles on the Billboard Sizzling 100. To this point, Management has bought greater than 10 million copies worldwide. She adopted Management with Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814, which is, as of Might 2025, the one album to generate seven high five-charting songs on the Billboard Sizzling 100. She went even additional along with her subsequent album, janet., because it tallied six extra high 10-charting songs on the Sizzling 100. In flip, she turned the primary artist to notch 5 or extra high 10s on the Billboard Sizzling 100 from three completely different albums.
In 2023, her extremely profitable “Collectively Once more” tour turned the icon’s highest grossing trek of her profession which featured 36 bought out reveals and acquired rave opinions from followers and press. Okayplayer stated “Janet has nonetheless received it, serving as our beloved intercourse image, famous person, and Queen of Pop that nobody has come near emulating.” The Chicago Tribune confirmed, “Being a performer, a showstopper, a real delight isn’t just what Janet Jackson does. It’s who she is.” And the Boston Globe claimed, “Jackson is a killer stay act.”
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