Jay-Zs Magna Carta Holy Grail was already guaranteed to have the best opening week sales of any album in his career, thanks to Samsungs decision to buy 1 million copies in advance.
Now the rapper can boast another best: the most first-week streams of any album in Spotifys history.
The numbers are in, and Magna Carta clocked 14 million full album streams in the U.S. alone, easily topping recent record-setting releases from Mumford & Sons (8 million) and Daft Punk (9.5 million).
How much will that net Jay-Z? Its hard to say without knowing his precise royalty rate and the breakdown of listeners on Spotify. For the music services paid tier, per-stream royalties are typically somewhere in the neighborhood of half a cent.
If all of Magna Cartas listeners came from that group, Jay-Z would have made about $1 million on Spotify spins this week. Given that the bulk were probably from the unpaid tier, his total is more likely in the low six figures.
Thats not much by his standards, but it could certainly translate into a bigger payday if even a sliver of that audience buys tickets to his stadium tour with Justin Timberlake.
what nas got to do with anything?Him and jay is cool he probably
dapped up jay already about his album.
this nikka jay bought 14 million computers to stream his album.....
