Pop icon Janet Jackson confirms release of 1st album in 7 years
Record to come out this fall on Jackson's own label Rhythm Nation via BMG
"Let's Wait Awhile"? Not really. Janet Jackson is releasing her first album in seven years this fall.
The pop icon said on her website Wednesday that the album, not yet titled, will be released on her own label, Rhythm Nation Records, via Bertelsmann Music Group.
She announced last month in a minute-long video that she was returning to music, with plans to launch a world tour.
- Can't see the video? Watch it here.
The news became a hot topic on social media.
<a href="https://twitter.com/JanetJackson">@JanetJackson</a> Congratulations, can't wait to hear what you have been working on. Finally the return of Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation ��
—@norcalmikeybearYas!!!!!!! <a href="https://twitter.com/JanetJackson">@JanetJackson</a> . I have been waiting for you to come back full force! I would love to work with her!!! <a href="http://t.co/xr8E2CA5JW">http://t.co/xr8E2CA5JW</a>
—@JenniferAkabueJanet Jackson is so essential, guys. I'm so ready for this album. You have no idea.
—@miawatkinsJackson said in a statement that "the opportunity to be creative in music and every form of entertainment has great potential here."
Her last studio album was 2008's Discipline. Jackson's catalog of hits dates back to the mid-1980s, ranging from What Have You Done for Me Lately to That's the Way Love Goes to All for You.
With files from CBC News