LOS ANGELES, April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — As a result of massive sellouts for performances in Asia and North America,
the JANET JACKSON ‘Number Ones: Up Close & Personal Tour’ is being
expanded.  JANET’s largest ever world tour will now be vastly extended
to even more global cities in addition to the currently scheduled
performances in London, Paris and Monte Carlo.
  The North American leg of the tour, which is currently underway, will
be continued in the fall after a scheduled spring and summer in Europe.

Originally
slated as a world tour of 35 cities to match the 35 number one singles
from her double-disc album, NUMBER ONES, JANET will now greatly exceed
her planned dates. The high demand from key venues on several continents
will bring JANET around the world and back again.  Several of the
concerts on the initial schedule were sold-out in the first ten minutes
of availability.

The star,
addressing the new scope of her concert commitment, observed, “When
creating music or a tour, I draw from what is going on in my life and
hope that the fans relate to it. I am excited to know that the fans are
having a great time at my shows and are asking for more. Thanks for all
the love and your input on where I should take the show next. I’ll see
you soon!” said JANET.

Critics have
been as enthusiastic about her concert performances as have her fans.
 Here is a sampling of the media praise for her nightly performance of
songs selected from her thirty-five number one singles:

“More than a week has passed since I saw JANET JACKSON at Radio City Music Hall, and I’m still smiling…” —New York Times, Rob Hoerburger

“This is one tour not to miss, a tour on which you can see a pop icon who has done it all, giving you her all.” –BET, Clay Cane

“This was a concert displaying her growth as an artist and the tracks released during the journey.” –Entertainment Weekly, Brad Wete

“The best Janet Jackson performance I’ve covered in 20-plus years.” — Chicago Tribune, Greg Kot

“Often
imitated, never duplicated, Janet Jackson’s outbursts of meticulous
choreography, sassy exclamations and smoldering gazes into the audience
kept them on their feet for the entire two-hour set .” — MTV, Vaughn Schoonmaker

“The crowd,
standing since Ms. Jackson hit the stage, was in full dance mode and
remained so throughout the evening.” – The Republican, Donnie Moorehouse (CT)

“Friday’s
concert was unusually self-knowing, as if she’d returned from a long
silence and felt ready to give the truly boiled-down version of her
career.” –NY Times, Ben Ratliff

“She did say it was going to be one that’s up close and personal. And boy, did Janet Jackson live up to that promise.”– Zaki Jufri I-S Magazine (Singapore)

“It was an evening to remember: her first Boston show since she came to town in 2001 for the ‘All for You’ tour.” – Boston Globe, James Reed

“A tightly
choreographed greatest hits show, and that’s exactly what Jackson
delivered Monday in the first of three sold-out concerts at the Chicago
Theatre.”– Chicago Tribune, Greg Kot

“Janet
Jackson’s show at the sold-out Wang Theatre last night didn’t really
feel like a run-of-the-mill concert.  It was more like reconnecting with
the best friend you haven’t seen in years.”– Boston Herald, Lauren Carter

“She continues to be Miss Jackson – if you’re nasty – to paraphrase one of her biggest hits.” – Press of Atlantic City, by Robert DiGiacomo for At The Shore

The extension,
by popular demand, reflects the icon’s great success earlier this year
when her first book, “True You,” shot to the number one position on The New York Times
best-seller list in the first week of its publication.   “True You,”
published by Karen Hunter Publishing, an imprint of Gallery Books at
Simon & Schuster, chronicles JANET’s lifelong struggles with weight
and self-esteem. The book is a self-help guide where JANET used
anecdotes from her life to illustrate the power of self-esteem and her
struggles to achieve it.

Shortly after
topping the best-seller list as she has long done on the record-sales
charts, JANET signed a deal with Lionsgate to produce a schedule of
films for the famed Hollywood studio.  JANET recently starred in Tyler Perry‘s
critically acclaimed motion picture “For Colored Girls.”  JANET starred
in as well as co-wrote and produced the song “Nothing” for the film
“Why Did I Get Married Too?” JANET’s performance as Patricia in the film
earned her an NAACP Image Award Nomination for Best Actress. JANET’s
performance of “Nothing” achieved number one status on iTunes.  Each of
those films was distributed by Lionsgate.

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