Cardi B Helps Janet Jackson Join Cher & Madonna in 5-Decade Club on Hot 100

Pop and R&B icon Janet Jackson extends her Billboard Hot 100 chart history into a fifth decade via her feature on Cardi B’s “Principal,” which debuts at No. 92 on the list dated Oct. 4. Jackson joins Cher and Madonna as the only women to have new Hot 100 hits in five distinct decades.

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Thanks to “Principal,” Jackson lands her first Hot 100 credit since “Made for Now,” a 2018 collaboration with Daddy Yankee, and has now charted in every decade since the 1980s.

“Principal” traces its Hot 100 entrance largely to 4.9 million official streams in the United States for the Sept. 19-25 tracking week, according to Luminate, with a small assist from 1,000 sales downloads and 725,000 radio audience impressions.

The Cardi B-Jackson collaboration appears on Cardi B’s new album, Am I the Drama?, which debuts at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard 200 albums chart.

As pop-music fans might suspect, “Principal” features a sample of Jackson’s “The Pleasure Principle.” The Control single climbed to a No. 14 high in August 1987, helped by its music video with a well-remembered dance routine that won an MTV Video Music Award for best choreography at the 1988 ceremony.

The youngest of Joseph and Katherine Jackson’s children, Jackson made her Hot 100 debut in December 1982 with “Young Love,” which reached a No. 64 best the following month. After early show-business exposure as an actress, she pivoted to music with her self-titled debut LP in 1982 and its follow up, 1984’s Dream Street. Both had modest commercial results, but her star exploded with her third album, Control, which topped the Billboard 200 and sparked six top 20 Hot 100 hits, including “The Pleasure Principle” and her first of 10 No. 1s, “When I Think of You.”

Of Jackson’s 42 Hot 100 career hits, here’s their breakdown by decade, based on each track’s chart debut:

  • 1980s: 10
  • 1990s: 19
  • 2000s: 10
  • 2010s: 2
  • 2020s: 1

By entering the Hot 100 for a fifth different calendar decade, Jackson joins Cher and Madonna as the only women to achieve the feat with new material. The former diva’s ledger stretches six decades, from the 1960s to 2000s and the 2020s, while the latter legend shares Jackson’s 1980s-2020s run.

Among all women, Brenda Lee has also appeared on the Hot 100 in five distinct decades, but not with different recordings. She debuted songs in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s, while her holiday staple “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” which first charted in 1960, has re-entered annually since 2014.


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