By the end of the year she had scooped eight Billboard awards, including Top R&B Albums and Singles Artist, Best Pop and R&B Album Award for "Rhythm Nation," and Top Hot 100 Singles Artist. The success of the "Rhythm Nation" album continued into 1991 when, in January, Jackson became the first artist in history to have culled from one album seven Top 5 singles in the Billboard chart. Jackson's commercial peak continued into the 90s with the unprecedented performance of her Virgin Records' debut "Janet," which entered the US album chart at #1, beating brother Michael's sales record by selling 350,000 copies in its first week. Further US chart-topping singles included "That's The Way Love Goes" (#1 for eight weeks) and "Again", which were also UK bestsellers. The compilation album "Design Of A Decade" was another huge seller, and followed her collaboration with brother Michael on "Scream". Performing as simply Janet, Jackson released her first studio set in four years, "The Velvet Rope," a deeply personal album that dealt frankly with her much publicised emotional breakdown. The album entered the charts at #1 in America, while the single "Together Again" topped the Hot 100 in January 1998. A collaboration with BLACKstreet, "I Get Lonely", was a US #3 hit in May. Both tracks also reached the UK Top 5. "Doesn't Really Matter", a song featured in the soundtrack to NUTTY PROFESSOR 2: THE KLUMPS, rose to the top of the US charts in August 2000. "All For You" was premiered the following April by the chart-topping title track, making her the only woman singer in the history of Rock & Roll to score 5 back-to-back #1 studio albums on the Billboard Album's chart.
Jackson became the center of controversy when, during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII in February 2004, her right breast was "accidentally" exposed on national television when co-performer Justin Timberlake reached around and grabbed a detachable part of her breastplate-like outfit. They admitted that they privately planned the move after rehearsals had ended, but maintain that the exposure was accidental and that a red bra was to be revealed, not her bare breast. This "wardrobe malfunction", along with the rest of the half-time show, spurred a crackdown and widespread debate on perceived "indecency" in broadcasting, leading to a record $550,000 fine levied by the Federal Communications Commission to CBS, as well as an increase of FCC fines per indecency violation from $27,500 to $325,000. Additionally, the half-time show was seen by some as a sign of decreasing morality in the national culture. Later that same month, the 76th Annual Academy Awards ceremony was broadcast on ABC television with a 5-second delay. (A Time magazine poll in 2005 revealed that 66% of Americans believed that the FCC "overreacted" to the halftime show.)
Nominated for Achievement in Music - Original Song 1993: POETIC JUSTICE "Again" - Music & Lyric (w. James Harris, III & Terry Lewis)
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