According to promoter Live Nation, 88 percent of the tickets on the trek’s first leg (Aug. But most of all, her 65-date Unbreakable Tour is selling tickets at a blazing clip. 5 in its second week on Billboard’s Adult R&B airplay chart - her first top five hit on that tally in 11 years - and the song will get added sizzle when the album version, featuring red-hot rapper J. Jackson’s new single, “No Sleeep,” rose to No. Since a May 16 online tease of “new music, new world tour, a new movement,” Jackson has rapidly reeled off news about the launch of her own Rhythm Nation Records (a worldwide partnership with BMG), her first studio album in seven years and the initial two legs of a world tour, starting Aug. (Granted, Cher at 69 seems immune, but she’s the exception to most rules.) Can Janet Jackson, at 49, avoid the syndrome? Britney Spears, 33, Jennifer Lopez, 46, Celine Dion, 47, and Shania Twain, 49, already have taken the Vegas route. Just ask Madonna, 56, or 45-year-old Mariah Carey, whose journeys into middle age have been challenging at best. No matter how little her talent might diminish, under the spotlight’s glare, critics gleefully count wrinkles and listen for pitchy vocals in a way that rarely happens with male artists. Time can be cruel to the female pop star rounding 50. Inside Janet Jackson’s Comeback Gamble and the Hurdle of the ‘Aging Diva’ Stereotype
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