4:44 certified platinum

[Nuuko]

glad the album is getting panned by a lot of critics. It's wack, and it looks like Jay Fraud got himself another fake plaque

 

[tysigna]

It's official, Sprint bought all the copies

 

[tysigna]

"after the news broke that JAY-Z’s 4:44 went Platinum in less than six days, many people wondered how that was possible when it was only available to stream on TIDAL. It turns out, Sprint — the company partnered up with TIDAL to push the album — bought 1 million downloads."

JAY-Z's "4:44" Goes Platinum & Breaks Record Thanks To Sprint

lost all respect for jay...like some journalists are saying, he has no ethics at all.

 

[Wacky D]

lost all respect for jay...like some journalists are saying, he has no ethics at all.

shoot

I lost respect for jay about 15 years ago.

"after the news broke that JAY-Z’s 4:44 went Platinum in less than six days, many people wondered how that was possible when it was only available to stream on TIDAL. It turns out, Sprint — the company partnered up with TIDAL to push the album — bought 1 million downloads."

JAY-Z's "4:44" Goes Platinum & Breaks Record Thanks To Sprint

wasn't there some bullchit w/ Samsung concerning the MCHG album too?

 

[Standing on business]

So many crabs in a barrel


The system has pimped artist since the very beginning but y'all in here looking down on the artist pimping the system

 

[OfTheCross]

glad the album is getting panned by a lot of critics. It's wack, and it looks like Jay Fraud got himself another fake plaque

I saw you make this same post in another thread...I haven't saught out any reviews for the album but I got the feeling that the general consensus was that it was good.

Who's panning the LP?

lost all respect for jay...like some journalists are saying, he has no ethics at all.

Why'd you lose respect for him now?

 

[Wacky D]

So many crabs in a barrel


The system has pimped artist since the very beginning but y'all in here looking down on the artist pimping the system

that's not pimpin the system.

stop it.

 

[Nuuko]

shoot

I lost respect for jay about 15 years ago.





wasn't there some bullchit w/ Samsung concerning the MCHG album too?

yeah, I think everybody who bought a phone had the album and it counted as a sale

 

[tysigna]

that's not pimpin the system.

stop it.

tbh. Most artists celebrate their plat plaque because it means the world for them...it means people were supporting AND listening to their albums.

This platinum plaque is fake as fukk. The sprint users who received the album probably didn't even give it a spin. There's a huge difference between people listening and supporting your music and having compagnies to buy your own shyt

 

[derro13]

trash method for a trash album

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

Shameless

 

[OfTheCross]

tbh. Most artists celebrate their plat plaque because it means the world for them...it means people were supporting AND listening to their albums.

This platinum plaque is fake as fukk. The sprint users who received the album probably didn't even give it a spin. There's a huge difference between people listening and supporting your music and having compagnies to buy your own shyt

That's not who it works.

Sales only count when the consumer deliberately seeks out the album.

Sprint bought the albums and said 'if you want it you have to take the following steps.'

1 million people took the necessary steps to actually acquire the album.

They wanted it.

 

[Big Boss]

"after the news broke that JAY-Z’s 4:44 went Platinum in less than six days, many people wondered how that was possible when it was only available to stream on TIDAL. It turns out, Sprint — the company partnered up with TIDAL to push the album — bought 1 million downloads."

JAY-Z's "4:44" Goes Platinum & Breaks Record Thanks To Sprint

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

People are mad.

 

[momma]

glad the album is getting panned by a lot of critics. It's wack, and it looks like Jay Fraud got himself another fake plaque

Pitchfork gave it a 8.4. Rolling Stone 4/5. It's sitting at 82 on Metacritic on right now. Some publications also gave it a perfect rating

that's not pimpin the system.

stop it.

Billboard reports that it was the free downloads offered by Sprint that gave 4:44 the certification. Those downloads—offered on July 2 on the website 444.tidal.com after you entered the voucher code “SPRINT”—were purchased by the company for distribution. That purchase counts as a sale: An RIAA spokesperson said that sales count toward certification if it’s either purchased by an individual or a business that purchases the release and offers it to customers. Those customers would have to take action “affirmative steps” to receive the project (in other words, U2’s Songs of Innocence—which foisted itself on to people’s iTunes—wouldn’t quite be eligible).

Also, something people should understand is that the RIAA counts their certifications under units shipped, meaning the amount of physical product that's reached retailers. SoundScan is the one that tracks how many units were actually sold. So all these RIAA plat, gold, diamond certs or whatever are simply an indication of market demand and not particularly market performance. Jay definitely gamed the system by essentially having Samsung buy 1 mil copies to give away free (and 1 mil people took that offer btw, not that much different from streaming the album on your free version of Spotify)