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Janet Jackson paid a visit to the outdoor shopping center, The Grove, here in LA yesterday afternoon to do some promo work for the release of her new greatest hits collection entitled Number Ones (which we learned last month would collect together one one disc all of Janet‘s number one songs). Janet did not deign to actually press the flesh with her loyal fans, choosing instead to wave down below at them from a lofty precipice:

In other Janet news, it has been reported that she will open the 2009 American Music Awards at the end of this month with a performance medley of some of her biggest hits:

Janet Jackson is the latest singer who is confirmed to perform at the 37th Annual American Music Awards. She is set for the opening act of the event to be held on November 22 at NOKIA Theatre, singing a medley of her hit singles. Coincidently, she will release her greatest hits compilation “Number Ones” less than a week prior to the show. “We’re thrilled about having Janet Jackson open this year’s show,” said AMAs producer Larry Klein. “She is an incredibly dynamic performer and I think the audience will be excited to see what she has in store.” Other musical guests are Rihanna, Green Day, Shakira, Mary J. Blige, Keith Urban, Lady GaGa, Eminem, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Lopez, Black Eyed Peas, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, DAUGHTRY and Adam Lambert. To be handed with a special International Artist Award, meanwhile, is Whitney Houston who will also make a live performance. She is going to deliver one of the singles in her comeback album “I Look to You”, “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength”, which is written by Diane Warren and produced by David Foster.

Wow … that is quite a line-up of musical acts! Altho I’ve not been too fond of Janet‘s most recent work, she does have a huge catalog of great hit songs to draw from for this performance … so I’m anxious to see how she will open the AMAs this year. But, to be honest, considering the line-up of confirmed performers … Janet is not the only performer I’m looking forward to seeing. This sounds like it’s going to be a great show … and it will all start with Janet, Miss Jackson if you’re nasty.

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Last weekend we learned that Janet Jackson will be releasing a greatest hits collection, titled Number Ones, in November and today we get our first look at the album artwork. Amazon has been updated with the release info for the collection (you can see the tracklist HERE), including the album artwork:

Zzzzzzz. I understand the photo used for this album cover art was taken back in 2001 … and appeared in the tour book for Janet‘s All For You Tour. It’s like they aren’t even trying very hard to market this collection … I am not impressed. I am hearing that Miss Jackson will be releasing a new studio album of entirely new music in 2010, which is exciting, but this release just seems like a throw-away to me. If the folks behind this release don’t seem to care about promoting the disc, why should I care about buying it?

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After releasing her first greatest hits collection back in the mid-90′s, Design of a Decade: 1986/1996, Janet Jackson feels it is high time to release another collection of her greatest hits. Spanning her entire career, Number Ones will compile 2 discs featuring many of Janet‘s hits … some of which, ironically, never hit #1 on the Billboard charts:

What songs fans will get if they purchase Janet Jackson’s upcoming greatest hits album have been uncovered. Sixteen tracks are listed in the first CD, and there will be eighteen songs in the second package. Beside including smash hits from her previous releases, the double-disc album will also have a brand new song called “Make Me” which has come out since September this year. In addition, Janet’s duet track with her brother Michael Jackson, “Scream”, also appears on the list. The new compilation is titled “Number Ones” and becomes Janet Jackson’s first greatest hits set after 1995 release “Design of a Decade: 1986-1996″. It will be released across United States on November 17 with Nelly, Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell listed as featured guests.

HMMM … how very Madonna of you, Janet. Didn’t Madge first release The Immaculate Collection (1990) before releasing her new Celebration (2009) greatest hits collection? Tho, in Janet‘s defense … it has been 13 years since her last singles collection and let’s not forget that Maddy released 2 other collections (Something to Remember in 1995 and GHV2 in 2001) in between Immaculate and Celebration. I was expecting her new song Make Me to appear on a new album but I guess we’ll have to wait until 2010 to hear any of that new stuff. After the jump, check out the tracklist for Janet‘s new 2-disc singles collection Number Ones …