DEF: Janet Jackson “Control”

Janet Jackson‘s pop music career took off in the mid-1980s when her 1986 album Control garnered her the first six Top 20 hits of her career, with the first five of those hits reaching the Top 5 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. The album’s title track became the fourth of those Top 5 hits when on this date in 1987 it climbed to a peak position of number 5, where it would spend one week. “Control” by Janet Jackson is the Daily Eighties Flashback.