Jay-Z’s Album Sells Gold In Its First Week

Jay-Z’s new album has sold more than 500 000 units its first week! Magna Carta has the second-best first-week debut of the year after Justin Timberlake’s 20/20 Experience.

The album was officially released on July 7. Samsung bought and gave 1.2 million copies of the album to Galaxy mobile phone users on July 4. Billboard is not counting those sales on its charts.

Jay-Z’s 12th album had more than 14 million streams in its first week on Spotify, beating a record that Daft Punk set in May with Random Access Memories & features Timberlake, Beyonce, Frank Ocean and Timbaland.