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#111 Janet Jackson, 'Control' (1986)

Amazingly, this album wasn’t included last time, this time it’s beaten out the other two entries that were. ‘Control,’ Janet Jackson’s third record, was the one that broke her commercially. Her previous record, 1984’s ‘Dream Street,’ was a flop charting at #147. Subsequently, Jackson fired her manager, aka her father, Joseph Jackson, finding him too controlling. The 19-year-old Jackson, wanted to break free of her father, leave the house and take control. In a fit of rebelliousness, she had briefly married James DeBarge in late 1984 but left him 4 months later, to be annulled later that year.

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