At last, Janet Jackson is back on the charts.
The pop legend, 59, is featured on Cardi B‘s hit song “Principal” from the rapper’s sophomore album — and the collab just joined the Billboard Hot 100 hit this week, Forbes reports.
“Principal” debuted on the coveted chart this week at No. 92, earns Jackson her 42nd placement on the list of the most consumed songs in the U.S., the magazine also reported on Monday, Oct. 6.
Additionally, she now joins both Cher and Madonna as the only women to debut songs on the Hot 100 in five different decades. Cher, 79, has both Jackson and Madonna beat, however, as she is the only female musician to chart new hits on the Hot 100 across a whopping six different decades.
Meanwhile, Madonna, 67, is still hard at work with a new album on the way — an expected sequel to her Grammy-winning Confessions on a Dance Floor. Rolling Stone reported last month that she will officially return in 2026 with the dance album. Added to that, she is reuniting with Warner Records — her previous label that helped shoot her to stardom.
Interestingly, with Jackson’s new song “Principal,” the pop sensation actually did not record new vocals for the tune. Instead, the Cardi B cut borrows from Jackson’s 1987 single “The Pleasure Principle,” and she earns a credit as a featured act, as Forbes noted. The original song was part of Jackson’s breakthrough full-length Control, which had climbed to No. 14 on the Hot 100.
Earlier this month, Jackson and her niece Paris Jackson were both spotted at the Tom Ford Womenswear runway show in Paris, France, where they appeared to greet one another with a big hug. Outside the venue, Paris, 27 — one of Michael Jackson‘s three children — was photographed while leaning in to hug her aunt, the youngest sibling of the late music icon.
