Janet Jackson outsources 20 Year Old Album Cover to her Fans

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Janet Jackson outsources 20 Year Old Album Cover to her Fans

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In an effort to promote her upcoming album 20 Years Old, R&B-pop
superstar Janet Jackson is asking her fans to submit designs for the
album's cover through a contest held in conjunction with Yahoo! Music.



Beginning July 18th at 12 noon PST, for one week, 33 images of Janet will be posted at http://music.yahoo.com/janetjackson
. Fans can download and "remix" the photographs to come up with their
own version of the new album's cover. Designs will each be assigned a
link that users can send to friends and family.



The top four
scoring finalists, as determined by Janet, will be declared the
contest's grand prize winners, and will see their design appear on
selected publicly distributed copies of 20 Years Old.



The remaining 16 finalists will be deemed runners-up, and will receive Janet's entire album catalog on CD.



The
design competition promises to stir up anticipation for the release of
20 Years Old, an album that executive producer Jermaine Dupri promises
will "blow a new generation of minds" as it marks the anniversary of
Janet's career-making 1986 album, Control. Janet has re-teamed with her
original collaborators, legendary hitmakers Jimmy "Jam" Harris and
Terry Lewis, for 20 Years Old, which she has described as a celebration
of what was going on musically back in the day when Control was
released.



The album's first single is the breezy, laid-back
"Call On Me," featuring St. Louis hip-hop star Nelly, which hit radio
on June 19th and has already cracked the Top 40 pop chart and is a Top
15 track at urban radio.