Blueprint 3 is actually better then MCHG
How Did Jay Sell More 1st Week On MCHG Than BP3???
- Thread starter Tuc2DaBoot
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Not that crazy..Jay has been outselling Nas since I Am..Jay is a pop artist tho.
Big Mel
@bigboss
Jay is not anymore a pop artist than Nas. Stop it.
He is better at making radio records though. Always has been.
He is better at making radio records though. Always has been.
Canada Goose
Pooping on your head :umad:
Newark88
Superstar
True
At this point..Jay can put out ANYTHING..even a gospel album rapping/singing about 88 and it would still outsell Nas' abums..his status, kanye/beyonce affiliation make sure he'll do numbers.
You mean to tell me
Cherry Wine wouldnt blow up if it had Jay's name attached to it?
Say what u want about Jay music. Jay is 2x more popular than he was in 09'.
The White House having a press conference about a Jay track
Blue Ivy
Jay has a story on Espn like every week now
Dude a producer on Broadway
Samsung deal
Beyonce
Every rapper, entertainer, activist & hater/fans has made him bigger than life. Ontop of the music being dope. Jay aint slowing down
The White House having a press conference about a Jay track
Blue Ivy
Jay has a story on Espn like every week now
Dude a producer on Broadway
Samsung deal
Beyonce
Every rapper, entertainer, activist & hater/fans has made him bigger than life. Ontop of the music being dope. Jay aint slowing down
True
At this point..Jay can put out ANYTHING..even a gospel album rapping/singing about 88 and it would still outsell Nas' abums..his status, kanye/beyonce affiliation make sure he'll do numbers.
You mean to tell me
Cherry Wine wouldnt blow up if it had Jay's name attached to it?
I tell u dis much
Cherry Wine wouldve blown up with Hov alone than with Nas and a dead Amy Winehouse
Its love doe breh
Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
one day y'all are gonna realize that Hov is the hip hop Beatles.
Tuc2DaBoot
Pro
As much I can't stand ROFL_Guy's trolling...
The answer would be Eminem here. And technically Lil Wayne.
Basically. The Samsung thing essentially amounted to a huge marketing campaign for an opportunity to listen to the album early. Some artists will have a stream available a week or more before their album drops on some random website or on iTunes, but people don't really check for shyt like that en masse. Those artists sales are based on their months of promo and hoping people have faith in the singles released. Jay released the album for free to a million people. His status and the marketing campaign guaranteed that people would listen to that free product. A lot of people liked it and went out and bought physical copies. I'm sure of those million Samsung owners, some didn't like it and some were cool with just having the album on their phone. But the release on July 4th became an event. It was trending from the night the commercial aired during the Finals until the 4th. Besides the Samsung stuff, there were tons of "other" types of downloads
The album got heard by a crazy amount of people. I think, for artists with a similar status in the game, this could be a model that could work really well. People love free shyt, they appreciate artists that get with the times as far as technology goes, and they love event type shyt. If you deliver music they like and you have that many people paying attention they'll go out and spend their money. You add the whole holiday thing on top of it and it's not surprising. Imagine if Drake cut a deal with Apple and dropped Nothing Was the Same for free on some special app on Labor Day to a million people and then the physical copy three days later. He could probably do a milli first week off physical copies if the album was dope. 
Jay opens himself up to a lot of jokes sometimes, but I hope that nikkas run with that new rules mantra. Everyone doesn't have the status of Jay, but you can make up for it with creativity and using the tons of resources artists have nowadays.
