Janet Jackson singles that didn't chart or break the Top 10 (in the US)

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A (probably somewhat misguided) spin-off from Stevie D's awesome Michael Jackson singles that didn't chart or break the Top 10 (in the US) thread.

Skipping the pre-Control stuff and going by the main U.S. charts, not the dance ones, where I think Janet's never missed the top 10 maybe ever? Was kind of loose, also, w.r.t including songs that were radio-only for some reason (mainly the Velvet Rope stuff).

Poll Results

Option	Votes
The Pleasure Principle	9
Got 'til It's Gone	6
Go Deep	5
Throb	3
Feedback	1
Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)	1
Rock Wit U	0
So Excited	0
Call On Me	0
All Nite (Don't Stop)	0
I Want You	0
Just a Little While	0
Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)	0
Girlfriend/Boyfriend (with Blackstreet)	0
Luv Me, Luv Me (with Shaggy)	0
Every Time	0
What'll I Do	0
Whoops Now	0
Make Me	0

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Monday, 30 December 2013 05:31 (twelve years ago)

Ugh, so many to choose from. My heart told me to go with "Pleasure Principle" cause Control is still unfuckwithable.

― Murgatroid, Monday, 30 December 2013 05:34 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, I fully expect that one to run the table.

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Monday, 30 December 2013 05:42 (twelve years ago)

Justifiably.

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Monday, 30 December 2013 05:42 (twelve years ago)

I was always an "All Nite (Don't Stop)" superfan.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 December 2013 05:48 (twelve years ago)

"All Nite (Don't Stop)" or "Feedback".

― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 30 December 2013 05:56 (twelve years ago)

Kind of amazed that "Got 'til It's Gone" and "Every Time" weren't hits, as I remember hearing them everywhere for a while.

― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Monday, 30 December 2013 05:58 (twelve years ago)

"Got 'til It's Gone" was not released as a commercial single, making it ineligible to appear on the Hot 100 or various other charts under the chart rules that existed at that time, greatly hindering the song's chart performance despite its popularity and acclaim.[88]

― fit and working again, Monday, 30 December 2013 06:19 (twelve years ago)

One of my favorite videos of all-time too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uznTHSEgx4U

― Murgatroid, Monday, 30 December 2013 06:20 (twelve years ago)

"Go Deep" is another one I thought was a bigger hit. But, yes, "Pleasure Principle" is my vote.

― jetfan, Monday, 30 December 2013 06:32 (twelve years ago)

Throb is disgusting filth and I love it.

― MU-MU is and is not a theorem of the JAM-System (Branwell Bell), Monday, 30 December 2013 11:04 (twelve years ago)

"Throb"

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 December 2013 12:45 (twelve years ago)

It's pure nostalgia, I know. That album (Janet? You know, the breasts album.) came out the first year I moved to NYC, and I was working in a record shop, so I heard that album approximately 10,000 times a day and after 3 months of that, I never ever wanted to hear Janet Jackson Ever. Again. But I dug the album out a year or two ago (on Spodify, actually) and when I put it on, and I could still sing along with every word, and the power of music I hadn't heard in 20 years triggered this rush of memories of things I hadn't thought about in 20 years, and sense memories of what that time in my life was like. It's funny how untouched musical memory has the power to turn something you never wanted to hear again into something so powerfully beautiful and evocative.

― MU-MU is and is not a theorem of the JAM-System (Branwell Bell), Monday, 30 December 2013 13:24 (twelve years ago)

Whoops now ...

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:04 (twelve years ago)

"Rock With U" is a pretty hot late-period jam.

There's no way "Pleasure Principle" doesn't take down this elephant thing hardcore.

― Palsied Phlebotomist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:08 (twelve years ago)

"go deep" for sure

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:08 (twelve years ago)

pleasure principle, throb, got til it's gone, go deep & rock with u are prob the best ones here

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:18 (twelve years ago)

i used to like "feedback" but now it sounds so much like a pussycat dolls song to me it's kind of embarrassing

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:19 (twelve years ago)

pleasure principle

― surm, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:20 (twelve years ago)

obv

― surm, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:20 (twelve years ago)

"Feedback" > "Rock With U"

― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:27 (twelve years ago)

IMO the top 5 (unordered):

The Pleasure Principle
Got 'til It's Gone
Go Deep
Girlfriend/Boyfriend (with Blackstreet)
All Nite (Don't Stop)

― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:29 (twelve years ago)

(a bunch of these went #1 on the dance and/or R&B charts and are included on Janet's compilation of #1 singles)

― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:30 (twelve years ago)

listened to Rhythm Nation on my way to work this morning

― surm, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:30 (twelve years ago)

definitely a janet kind of winter

― surm, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:30 (twelve years ago)

i would put "r&b junkie" in my top 5 of this group if it counted

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:31 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 16 January 2014 00:01 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 17 January 2014 00:01 (twelve years ago)

All Nite (Don't Stop) 	0

WAHT my vote was not counted.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 17 January 2014 00:05 (twelve years ago)

That's too bad, it's a great song.

― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 17 January 2014 06:32 (twelve years ago)

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