Taking the stage more than 30 minutes after the show’s scheduled 7:30 p.m. 29 at Valley View Casino Center – has eight.)Īccordingly, Jackson’s hits-fueled concert here Saturday was designed to leave little to chance. (For those keeping track, Babs has 10 chart-topping albums to her credit, while Madge – who performs here Oct. Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand are the only other two performers to match this feat, although Streisand and Madonna have both scored more No. This makes Jackson one of just three pop-music artists to score chart-topping albums in each of the past four decades. It is the seventh album of her career to debut at No. Meanwhile, Jackson’s first album of new songs since 2008, the Jimmy Jam- and Terry Lewis-produced “Unbreakable,” last week entered the national Billboard album sales charts at No.
Inductees are typically announced in late November or early December. They include hip-hop star Kendrick Lamar, who sampled Jackson’s “Any Time, Any Place” on his song “Poetic Justice” (she returned the favor Saturday by featuring a snippet of Lamar’s rapping during “Any Time, Any Place”).Īnd she has been enjoying a banner comeback this year, after four years of relative silence.Įarlier this month, Jackson’s name appeared on the ballot of nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2016. She has influenced, directly or indirectly, a new generation of artists. She has outlived musical styles (including house, electro-pop and New Jack Swing) that ebbed but are now in vogue again. (The full set list of numbers performed appears below.) Ultimately, then, Jackson’s Saturday SDSU concert represented a crowd-pleasing victory lap. Other erstwhile Jackson peers, including Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez, have all turned to Las Vegas showroom residencies. Her diligence and determination to persevere since then as a vital, chart-topping recording and touring artist separate Jackson from, say, Paula Abdul, Debbie Gibson, The Bangles and Gloria Estefan – to cite four of her female contemporaries from the 1980s. Then came 1986’s career-igniting “What Have You Done for Me Lately,” the first of four hit singles she scored that year alone from her breakthrough album, “Control.”
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