Janet Jackson Concert Breaks Box Office Record

Janet Jackson Concert Breaks Box Office Record at the Straz Center!

The $330,717 gross of the Sunday, Dec. 4, concert by international superstar Janet Jackson smashed the Straz Center’s long-standing record for gross of a single performance. A concert capacity crowd of 2,548 was on hand in Carol Morsani Hall for Jackson’s Number Ones, Up Close and Personal World Tour. Jackson gave the ecstatic audience two encores that capped an evening of greatest hits that included “The Pleasure Principle,” “Control,” “Nasty,” “Escapade” and “Rhythm Nation.

The previous record of $215,748 was set on Sept. 3, 2003, by Mariah Carey.