The success of Unbreakable, Jackson’s first album in seven years, means that the singer has now topped the charts in each of the last four decades

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Janet Jackson’s first album in seven years, Unbreakable, has gone straight to the top of the US album charts.

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In doing so, the singer becomes one of only a few artists to have topped the charts in each of the past four decades. Bruce Springsteen and Barbara Streisand are the two other names to have scored No 1 albums in the 2010s, 2000s, 1990s and 1980s. Unbreakable is Jackson’s seventh No 1 album, and her second consecutive one following 2008’s Discipline.

The news adds to an excellent week for the singer: Jackson was recently nominated for entry in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Chic, the Smiths, NWA and more.

Jackson was followed in the charts by The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness, Drake and Future’s mixtape What a Time to Be Alive, Fetty Wap’s self-titled debut album and Tamar Braxton’s Calling All Lovers.

Unbreakable achieved 109,000 in pure album sales to reach the top, a figure which became 116,000 equivalent album units under the new measurements by Nielsen Music. Along with Unbreakable and Discipline, Jackson has previously topped the charts with All For You (2001), The Velvet Rope (1997), janet. (1993), Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989) and Control (1986).

