Thanks to @LittleBLUECorvette for pointing this out.

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Their mother stated in her autobiography that she thought public would grow tired of them due to overkill on the market. I think a few of the siblings career would have been more successful had they not released an album the same time as the *big two*

Didn't hurt the fabs in 1970

BlackCat1985 said:

Damn! It really did. I had forgot that Jermaine, Rebbie, and Latoya released albums in 1986. Janet really showed out that year and in 1989. Marlon knew damn well he shouldn't have released anything the same years as Mike. Lol! He was asking for it. The thing is tho. Michael and Janet never released albums in the same year. Did those two get together and decide this or was it just a coincidence?

JANET JACKSON was released two months before THRILLER in 1982

SEANMAN said:

They were on such dirrent levels that it didn't matter. They were NOT competeing with each other musically. At least not in my book.

"Someone" was just out on his own. His little sister was ok back then. The rest were just "someones" backing singers or just mediocre solo acts. Though i'll admit i do like some of Jermaine's stuff, The rest of the Jacksons only really clicked with me as a group.

LaToya Jackson did a disservice to herself by releasing albums,period she really should have went to college and became a lawyer or something.

SoulAlive said:

LaToya Jackson did a disservice to herself by releasing albums,period she really should have went to college and became a lawyer or something.

'Night Time Lover' was ok, except it seemed a bit weird and incesty singing it with Michael though.

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In my opinion, it helped some of them.
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Cinny said:

Kind of crucially, you have to lift your heels to pull off the moonwalk. If you're in high heels already it doesn't go so well. It's still way better than Rihanna's moonwalk fail from a few years back though!

I think the Jackson siblings (except for Janet) did a huge disservice by not having enough of THIS:
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Don't forget, they were all signed to major label deals, headed by huge corporations and bean counters. I'm sure they wanted a return on their investments and these "people" were just products to sell and make money, based on the success of one family member. So there was a lot of that going on behind the scenes as well as the family members wanting to be successful and recognized in their own right. I'm sure a lot of carrots were dangled in from of them to make a record, just because the last name was Jackson.

IMO

how was this a disservice

I didn't hear this back in 1989.........lolllll

I never understood why LaToya was picked to play the object of Michael's eye in the SAY SAY SAY video. That is REALLY incesty. I just found out that Janet and LaToya did backing vocals on ENJOY YOURSELF too. That is cool.

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Should I be embarrassed that prior to opening this thread, I had no idea there was a Jackson sibling named Rebbie?

I don't know why people think they did themselves a disservice though. Artists were expected to be prolific in those days. Is the idea that, if you got rid of those albums by LaToya then Jermaine's album would have sold more?

I tend to think artists should put an album out when they have about 45 minutes worth of new material ready to go.

It's amusing how often La Toya appeared in MJ-related projects in some kind of 'love interest' role... from The Jacksons' variety show and Night Time Lover to backing vocals on P.Y.T. as one of the 'pretty young things' and the Say Say Say and TWYMMF videos. Even the scream on Heartbreak Hotel, lol.

I don't think the others releasing albums the same year as Michael/Janet made a big difference really. They just weren't marketable to pop audiences to the level that the 'big two' were. So many of the lesser-known brothers releasing solo albums in '89, the same year as 2300 JS, might have made a bigger difference.

As for La Toya, I thought her first few albums were solid... not spectacular, but solid. I haven't listened to much of her later stuff.

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bobzilla77 said:

Should I be embarrassed that prior to opening this thread, I had no idea there was a Jackson sibling named Rebbie?

I guess you don't know about Joh'Vonnie either.

bobzilla77 said:

Should I be embarrassed that prior to opening this thread, I had no idea there was a Jackson sibling named Rebbie?

I don't know why people think they did themselves a disservice though. Artists were expected to be prolific in those days. Is the idea that, if you got rid of those albums by LaToya then Jermaine's album would have sold more?

I tend to think artists should put an album out when they have about 45 minutes worth of new material ready to go.

having the lastname jackson was not this huge advantage people like to make it out to be. the only thing it did was open the door for some of them,it didnt help them sustain careers. if mj's name couldnt help his siblings (including janet) sell records during the height of thriller-mania then nothing could. once janet became successful her and mike never released albums the same year, they really didnt care about the others records. is it just me or do it seem like latoya put out more solo albums than all of them?

lowkey said:

lowkey said:

having the lastname jackson was not this huge advantage people like to make it out to be. the only thing it did was open the door for some of them,it didnt help them sustain careers. if mj's name couldnt help his siblings (including janet) sell records during the height of thriller-mania then nothing could. once janet became successful her and mike never released albums the same year, they really didnt care about the others records. is it just me or do it seem like latoya put out more solo albums than all of them?

co-sign and that last comment made me laugh

Cinny said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Off the top Jermaine has 13

He has 14 now since he released that jazz standards album in 2013

Marrk said:

SoulAlive said:

LaToya Jackson did a disservice to herself by releasing albums,period she really should have went to college and became a lawyer or something.

'Night Time Lover' was ok, except it seemed a bit weird and incesty singing it with Michael though.

That was her only good song and we all know the reason why it was so good: Michael wrote,produced and sang on it

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Cinny said:

co-sign and that last comment made me laugh

Off the top Jermaine has 13 Janet has 11 Mike has 10 La Toya has at least 7 Rebbie has 4 Jackie has 2 Marlon and Randy have 1 each Jackson Five have 11 Jacksons have 7

janet has 10 studio albums, did mike have 4 solo studio albums before off the wall, i thought he only had 2