Jay-Z is the Wilt Chamberlain of Rap, and selling a mill in a week is his 100pt game

[HoLLaBaCK]

First off most of ya'll be the same nikkas talking that "album sales don't mean nothing". Then Jay-Z makes a deal to line his pockets and ya'll all .

He sold 1 million copies to Samsung (and had them pay for his promotion), they choose to give away 1 million copies, the album was heavily bootlegged and he still sold 500,000 (gold) the first week...with no single!!

Let me guess though...he shouldn't have made a smart business decision because it ruins the art huh .

 

[NASDAQ]

more than a million downloaded the app to get the album... only 1 mil got it...

fact is he could have sold 20 mil instead

 

[Bolzmark]

Yeah, fukk that! Jay ONLY sold 500,000 in his first week!

That's a flop on this site right?

 

[Larry]

Yeah, fukk that! Jay ONLY sold 500,000 in his first week!

That's a flop on this site right?

I would never say he fopped, just that he stat padded like a mug!

First off most of ya'll be the same nikkas talking that "album sales don't mean nothing". Then Jay-Z makes a deal to line his pockets and ya'll all .

He sold 1 million copies to Samsung (and had them pay for his promotion), they choose to give away 1 million copies, the album was heavily bootlegged and he still sold 500,000 (gold) the first week...with no single!!

Let me guess though...he shouldn't have made a smart business decision because it ruins the art huh .

1. that's a generalization. The whole sale doesn't matter thing, I'm not a member of that crowd. Sales may not matter in whether the content on an album is dope or not, but they are pretty significant in the fact that you can gauge which artists are really poppin in the grand scheme, and who only appeals to niche crowds. Don't get me wrong, Jay is still looking to do impressive numbers. More than any hip hop album has done this year, and that's without the mil.

2. It was indeed a smart business decision, and I'm not faulting him for that. Jay-Z is a great business mind, WE ALL KNOW AND ACKNOWLEDGE THIS. With that said, Jay is


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you can't have your cake and eat it too. he made it to the 1.5 mill in a week mark but 1 million from that was paid for by Samsung. You expect people not to point that out? LOL get real

 

[NvrCMyNut]

Jayz new album is equivalent to a happy meal toy. It was made to sell another product. Jayz stans hypeing up something that was made to sell them samsung phones.

post of the year

 

[LastEmperor2k2]

What do you mean you don't see anyone whining about the deal when you're posting in a thread that was made to whine about the deal? You're a shyt poster.

That's my bad, I didn't read the initial post.

 

[HoLLaBaCK]

I would never say he fopped, just that he stat padded like a mug!



1. that's a generalization. The whole sale doesn't matter thing, I'm not a member of that crowd. Sales may not matter in whether the content on an album is dope or not, but they are pretty significant in the fact that you can gauge which artists are really poppin in the grand scheme, and who only appeals to niche crowds. Don't get me wrong, Jay is still looking to do impressive numbers. More than any hip hop album has done this year, and that's without the mil.

2. It was indeed a smart business decision, and I'm not faulting him for that. Jay-Z is a great business mind, WE ALL KNOW AND ACKNOWLEDGE THIS. With that said, Jay is


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MezCclCSjNw



you can't have your cake and eat it too. he made it to the 1.5 mill in a week mark but 1 million from that was paid for by Samsung. You expect people not to point that out? LOL get real

Yeah of course people are gonna point that out, I can fill up the front page if I upped every thread that pointed that out. It's like each of ya'll try to attack it from a different angle.

Your on some...

Spoiler

You:

(1 week later)

You: I got it

You: Jay-Z is the Wilt Chamberlain of Hip-Hop

Me:

I get it though you feel like some how it's scamming the system. To me though it's a . Anybody would do this if they could!! You gonna turn down a company wanting to buy 1 million of your records @ $5 dollars a pop (while paying for the promotion of your album) .

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Let's face it people, I think Jay is a great artist and all but if Jay did not have the millions of cash on hand and if was not a business genius, do you really think he would have sold that many albums? Dude got a "Corporation" to purchase the music, not the fans.

Now selling 500,000 thousand or whatever the number is, is an amazing feat because of the fans. But a corporation buying a million records is just a business deal.


On a related note: I just purchased the Black Album yesterday as the album has finally grown on me

If he sold 500k a week after releasing the album to 1 million people for free.... Plus the fact it was leaked for a week


If none of that happened and it dropped as a regular release... Wouldn't he have sold more than 500k anyway?

 

[Will Ross]

First off most of ya'll be the same nikkas talking that "album sales don't mean nothing". Then Jay-Z makes a deal to line his pockets and ya'll all .

He sold 1 million copies to Samsung (and had them pay for his promotion), they choose to give away 1 million copies, the album was heavily bootlegged and he still sold 500,000 (gold) the first week...with no single!!

Let me guess though...he shouldn't have made a smart business decision because it ruins the art huh .

If anything it shows people are nothing more then sheep. Jayz basically sold people an advertisement album.

 

[Bone$]

Dynasty continues... Y'all die