Jay-Z's
new album has sold more than 500,000 units its first week.
Nielsen SoundScan said late
Tuesday preliminary data shows that "Magna Carta Holy Grail" moved
about 527,000 copies. It will debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart this
week.
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.
“Magna Carta” has the
second-best first-week debut of the year after Justin Timberlake's “20/20
Experience.” The album features Timberlake, Beyonce, Frank Ocean and Timbaland.
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.”
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