Janis | ||||
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Released | November 23, 1993 | |||
Recorded | December 1962 – September 26, 1970 | |||
Genre | Blues rock, psychedelic rock, soul, blues | |||
Length | 195:50 | |||
Label | Columbia Legacy | |||
Janis Joplin chronology | ||||
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Janis is a compilation album by Janis Joplin, released in 1993. The album features a broad overview of her career from her first recording in December 1962 to the last songs that she recorded during the sessions for Pearl just a few days before her death in October 1970.
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | A+ [2] |
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The Village Voice | A [5] |
Janis was voted the seventh-best reissue of 1993 in The Village Voice 's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll. [6] Robert Christgau, the poll's supervisor, called the album "a smart, audiowise set that not only gets Joplin's achievement right but helps us understand it". [7]
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA) [8] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |