Jay-Z has pulled this sort of trickery before with his Magna Carta Holy Grail album in 2013. That is probably why RIAA's Cary Sherman already had a platinum plaque ready to present to Jay-Z whether 4:44 went platinum or not. SEE ALSO: Beyonce and Jay Z Can’t Afford $120 Million MansionĪpparently Jay-Z used his substantial clout with the RIAA to get his project certified platinum - even though he has no actual numbers to show. "Per RIAA rules, a sale counts toward certification even if purchased by a business and offered to fans who must take steps to acquire it." "We reach this conclusion in part because those streams have not been reported, and also because Tidal’s entire subscriber base would have to have streamed the album once every hour since release to get to 1.5 billion streams, which is platinum SEA. Hits Daily Double theorizes that the actual download numbers are made up out of thin air. That's because neither Jay-Z nor Sprint, which provided free downloads to TIDAL subscribers, have provided the actual number of units sold or even given away for free. Apparently numbers do lie.ĭespite going platinum in the first week, Jay-Z's album 4:44 has not appeared anywhere on the Billboard Top 200 Albums list. If you're looking for Jay-Z's 13th album to make the Billboard Top 200 Albums list, you have a long wait. 8 with "Hydrograd".Billboard Refuses to List Jay-Z’s 4:44 On Top 200 Albums Chart 2 with 68,000 album units sold and rock group Stone Sour at No. New albums in the top 10 of this weeks Billboard 200 album chart include electro-pop DJ Calvin Harris 'Funk Wav Bounces Vol. Less than 24 hours after JAY-Z's 13th album, 4:44, dropped as a midnight exclusive on Tidal/Sprint on Friday (June 30), Billboard has learned that the confessional 10-track work will soon be. New albums in the top 10 of this week's Billboard 200 album chart include electro-pop DJ Calvin Harris' "Funk Wav Bounces Vol. Jay Z announced a '4:44' tour on Monday and will play 31 shows across North America and Canada from October to December. Jay Z announced a "4:44" tour on Monday and will play 31 shows across North America and Canada from October to December. The album has been praised by critics for Jay Z's raw self-examination and socially conscious themes. "4:44" was made available to purchase and stream widely on July 7, which will count toward next week's Billboard chart. Billboard has announced that Jay-Z’s critically acclaimed new album, 4:44, has topped the album chart for the sales week that ended Thursday, July 13. Just six days after "4:44" was released, the Recording Industry Association of America certified the album as platinum, meaning one million US consumers had already downloaded the album.īut instead of featuring Jay Z, DJ Khaled's "Grateful" topped the Billboard 200 chart for a second consecutive week on Monday with another 70,000 album units sold. 1, after West made it available widely in April last year on platforms including iTunes, Apple Music and Spotify. It only debuted on the Billboard 200 chart, at No. Kanye West's "Life of Pablo" did not enter the Billboard charts during its exclusive Tidal release in February 2016. Representatives for Tidal and Jay Z did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment on the album's exclusion from this week's Billboard chart, but this is not the first time the streaming platform's exclusive releases have not charted on Billboard. Tidal did not report first week streaming figures of "4:44" to Nielsen, David Bakula of Nielsen Music said. The Billboard 200 album chart is based on retailers and streaming platforms reporting sales and streaming figures to Nielsen SoundScan. The album, on which the Jay Z addresses cheating on his wife Beyonce and the birth of their twins, was released on June 30 as an exclusive to members of Tidal and customers of wireless carrier Sprint Corp, who were offered a free six-month subscription to Tidal to listen to the album.
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