Janet Jackson achieves personal best as Together Again Tour wraps with £40m
Janet Jackson has scored a career-high with her Together Again Tour earning a whopping $51million (£40 million).
The 57 year old wrapped up the tour in June by reportedly drawing in an estimated $50.9million (£39.9 million) after selling 479,000 tickets during the span of 37 shows across the United States.
This is the highest gross of any of her previous tours, including her All for You Tour, which ran from 2001 to 2001 and netted a cool $46.9 million (36.81 million).
Her mammoth achievement saw her tour raking in $3.8 million (£2.98 million) on 24,500 tickets while double-headlining New York's Madison Square Garden.
This beat her $3.2 million (£2.5 million) earnings for the three-show run she had at the same venue back in 2001.
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Janet Jackson has scored a career-high with her Together Again Tour earning a $51 million (Getty Images for Janet Jackson)In the report by Billboard Boxscore, Janet drew in $3.1 million (£2.43 million) across two days while taking to the stage at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
Her June show in Los Angeles, which was held at the Hollywood Bowl, also pocketed $2.8 million (£2.2 million).
All in all, the Together Again Tour surpassed the attendance at her previous tours, including the All for You Tour, the Velvet Rope Tour and the Rhythm Nation World Tour.
While Janet clearly has a huge and dedicated fan base across the globe, her nephew TJ Jackson appeared to criticise her "oversexualised" performances in a string of tweets.
Janet drew in an estimated $50.9m after selling 479,000 tickets across 37 shows in the US (Getty Images)
This beat her All for You Tour, which ran from 2001 to 2001 and netted a cool $46.9 million (Getty Images for Janet Jackson)The furore surrounding TJ's comments began when he responded to a tweet from a fan of a clip of Janet on stage dancing seductively to her track Would You.
At the time, he replied: "I never liked when she did this in concerts either. I don't like when females are overly sexualised in art... it degrades and objectifies's women in a way that's not healthy. I prefer the That's The Way Love Goes Janet."
TJ, 44, the son of Tito Jackson, clarified his comments later, explaining that he had deleted his original tweets "because people either weren't reading the entire thread or were making wrong inferences and some of the original posts I was responding to were deleted making my replies harder to understand in full context."
Janet wrapped her tour in June (Getty Images for Janet Jackson)He wrote: "This all started with my belief that we should do a better job protecting our girls and I don't think many of our music videos today (that are aimed at our kids) empower our girls in the right way."
However, he stood by his stance on modern music and "overtly sexualised" songs using Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's hit song WAP as an example of what he doesn't agree with.
He explained: "I used WAP and the 'there's some hoes in the house' repetitiveness and its over-glamorisation of being a hoe as an example.
Janet Jackson's nephew TJ blasts her 'sexualised' shows as 'degrading to women'
"Yes I believe women can be sexy and sensual but I do feel there is a line that can be crossed when the message becomes something different and it affects our youth in a different way than you or me can understand."
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