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Tonight, after the Soul Train Awards, Janet will attend an album launch in Los Angeles along with many A-list celebrities. The sponsor, Cigar Aficionado, will give special cigars to each person to attend. Meanwhile, a new photo of Janet has been circulated which can be seen on the left.

Press release from Cigar Aficionado: 19 March 2004: C.A.O. International Inc. has a cigar for controversial music artist Janet Jackson. The cigarmaker is serving as cigar sponsor for tomorrow evening’s “A Night With Janet ‘Damita Jo’ Jackson,” which celebrates Jackson’s release of her “Damita Jo” album.

The event follows the 2004 Soul Train Awards. Several cigar-smoking celebrities are expected to attend, including Jay-Z and Denzel Washington. The evening’s VIPs will receive a selection of C.A.O. cigars, including premium C.A.O. Criollos and L’Anniversaire Maduros from Nicaragua and a flavored C.A.O. Moontrance made in the Dominican Republic.

Justin Timberlake is among the invited guests. C.A.O. is providing headgear for the event, but not shirts with tear-away panels, so a repeat of the infamous Jackson/Timberlake performance from the Super Bowl is not expected.

CD:UK have removed their backstage gossip about Janet’s demands from their website. Perhaps Virgin caught wind of it?!

From Associated Press: David Letterman, who got an eyeful of Courtney Love ‘s breasts during Wednesday’s “Late Show,” has booked another noted breast-barer, Janet Jackson .

The singer will grant Letterman her first network TV interview on the “Late Show” on March 29, the show announced Thursday.

Starting that week, Jackson is making a round of media appearances to promote her new album, “Damita Jo.” She’ll appear on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and Fox’s “On the Air With Ryan Seacrest.”

She’ll also be on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.”

Her appearance on Letterman is a coup for the talk-show host, considering it was also on CBS where Jackson had her controversial Super Bowl halftime show exposure. She later stayed away from the Grammy Awards on CBS, reportedly because the network wanted her to apologize for the Super Bowl performance.

Letterman’s show is pre-taped, allowing for editing. When Love leaped on Letterman’s desk Wednesday and lifted her shirt to expose her breasts, the shot was edited to obscure the view.

Jackson will be Seacrest’s sole guest and will perform for a crowd outside the Hollywood-area complex where the show is taped.

Fox spokesman John Rizzotti said it was uncertain whether she’ll perform one or two songs after Seacrest (also host of Fox’s “American Idol”) interviews her.

A seven-second delay, standard for the show, will be in place for her April 2 appearance, Rizzotti said.

The fallout from Jackson’s Super Bowl antics has been extensive, with the public and politicians clamoring for the TV industry to clean up its act.

Did you know that part of Island Life was recorded in the UK? When Janet was in the UK in February 2003, she attended the Brit Awards secretly and also London Fashion Week. But not only that, she penned the track with British songwriter Cathy Dennis. Cathy is responsible for hits like Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.

In addition, the track SloLove is written with former Alisha’s Attic singer Shellie Poole who was born in Essex, England. The track SloLove was produced by Swedish music producers BAG & Arnthor.

Due to popular demand, this news entry is for those of you that have downloaded the album. Comment on any tracks in this thread. If you have not downloaded it and don’t want to know about the album then don’t read any further!

According to a press release, Janet will perform on the Ryan Seacrest show and her performance will be open to the public! Taking place on Friday April 2nd 2004, it will be filmed at Hollywood & Highland Entertainment Complex, Corner of Hollywood and Highland Blvds, Hollywood, California. The show will take place between 12:00pm-1:00pm PT and will also feature a sit-down interview with Ryan Seacrest.

{{popup jalwtotp1.jpg Janet on Top of the Pops 233×240}}The photo to the left shows Janet performing Just A Little While on Top of the Pops on Friday night. Click the thumbnail to enlarge the photo.

What did Daz do when he visited the site with the downloads of Janet’s new album on? He downloaded them! UH OH! But then he remembered back to the All For You album when he had the whole album a week or so before it was released. He went and bought the album on its release date and there was NO surprise whatsoever! He was disappointed! He is DETERMINED that this will not happen with this album – so before even listening to the tracks, he deleted them from his computer! DO THE SAME! REMAIN STRONG!

Nine full tracks from the album are now available for download and a clip of Thinkin’ Bout My Ex! How crazy! It may be that I can’t control myself any longer and be forced to download!

Janet Multimedia is aiming to be the first site to have Janet’s new video for I WANT YOU online! Make sure you keep checking Janet Multimedia after it has premiered in the US to see the vid!