RIAA updates their Gold and Platinum program award rule due to Jay-Z's Samsung deal

[gluvnast]

i mean, how are y'all the SAME muthafucckas b*tching about this? and PRAISE KENDRICK LAMAR for receiving a PLATINUM PLAQUE when he TECHNICALLY haven't yet SOLD a million copies. #doublestandard

 

[Big Boss]

jay is cheating

 

[DeuceZ]

I think this is a good move...Big Sean can team up with General Motors and have his album included with every purchase of a Yukon or something...oh oh or Rozay can have Wingstop buy like 500k albums and give them free to anyone who orders the lemon pepper wings...oh oh my nikka Nas can have Hennessy give his album free to anyone who buys the Henny Black....I cant even imagine what Diddy gonna do with Ciroc



at the end of the day if the music is good thats all that matters...it seems fans use 'platinum' as a measure of quality which might have been the case back in the day but in this day and age

Spoiler

I'm just waiting for when its out on these here internets and I am not copping the S4 and be in a 2yr contract just to listen to an album yuh mad!!!

 

[Malik]

No matter what Jay does, it's a win to these dudes

Grown ass men with father figures

 

[Taadow]

I think people are reading a little too far into this..

There are probably FIVE rappers currently who have the power to broker this type of deal

Jay-Z
Eminem
Kanye West
Drake
Lil Wayne

That's about it. Companies aren't going to swoop in all of a sudden and offer to purchase 500,00 copies of the next Dead Prez album. No company is going to purchase 250,000 copies of the next Killer Mike LP. These type of deals are secured for artists with a sustained history of relevance, selling power, tour popularity, and the like. These deals will NOT become for the norm for the Hip Hop industry. Hell even in the Pop industry you only have 3-5 artists who could score this type of arraignment (Lady Gaga, Adele, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Beyonce) You HAVE to be a superstar for this to be a financially viable business opportunity for the company. Let's not act like suddenly companies are going to be emptying their wallets to offer Rick Ross and T.I a million copy deals

You're forgetting some other rappers:

Oprah
Paris Hilton

I mean hell - why couldn't/wouldn't they rap? As you say, they are superstars and this could be a viable business opportunity for their companies.

Paris Hilton already dropped an album....say she goes back to the lab and spits some hot-ass fiya (paused for a moment to ROFL) and Atlantic puts that album out. But before it comes out, her peeps at Hilton Hotels says their gonna purchase 2 million of them and put them next to the mints on pillows for folks who stay at their hotels around the world...according to some niccas in here (and elsewhere), Paris Hilton would be the hottest rapper out.

Ditto for Oprah putting a couple million copies of her rap album in O magazine.

You believe that?

That's how innane it is for folks to put too much stake in record sales.

But that's exactly what can happen now...

Still, this is some ultimate hustla chit. Gotta give props to Jay for that...

 

[MostReal]

This is no less disgusting than buying your own records.

yea I don't like the look of this, Jay suppose to be better than this.

 

[SAJ!!]

I can't knock it. Jay said that he was gonna go platnium with this album and he did.

It just means that more artists need to step their promo game up and not think beyond the street corner.

 

[blackslash]

Hov the gawd outchea tellin these cacs sayin "fukk YOUR RULES, IM ABOVE U FILTHY CACS..U GON CHANGE YO RULES CUZ IM HOV THE GAWD AND U GON HAND ME THAT BIG BOY MONEY FOR MY ALBUM"

Hatin ass c00ns are gon hate..they are the equivalent of pharisees who hated Jesus


But Hov the gawd is extraordinary

 

[Mac Casper]

i mean, how are y'all the SAME muthafucckas b*tching about this? and PRAISE KENDRICK LAMAR for receiving a PLATINUM PLAQUE when he TECHNICALLY haven't yet SOLD a million copies. #doublestandard

Do you think those caps locks make you sound intelligent? :smughov:

RIAA certifies on units shipped, not units sold - Billboard counts units sold

 

[John Hull]

Album sales don't mean shyt anymore, that business model been dead since the downloading age began. Peeps don't fukk with CD's like that so the idea of "shipping" gold or platinum and first week numbers is also outmoded.

There's plenty of underground rappers that probly would have went gold if all the illegal downloading of their shyt counted towards sales so when the same people that "don't" buy music talk about physical album sales I just

Bottom line Jay Z knows you mahfuggas ain't buying music no more so he's just going about his business making power moves and keeping his Fortune 500 status up. What is there to be mad at?

Samsung basically using dude as a glorified paid spokesman for their new phone, but instead of just giving him a check for a million bux Jay runs his promotion through them so he can maintain relevance and get credit for making some abstract #Newrules

 

[Enzo]

I think thread starter and most people are mistaken by the statement.

Nowhere did they say they would count his million sales.

They only said they wouldn't wait 30 days before counting digital

 

[Czerka]

You're forgetting some other rappers:

Oprah
Paris Hilton

I mean hell - why couldn't/wouldn't they rap? As you say, they are superstars and this could be a viable business opportunity for their companies.

Paris Hilton already dropped an album....say she goes back to the lab and spits some hot-ass fiya (paused for a moment to ROFL) and Atlantic puts that album out. But before it comes out, her peeps at Hilton Hotels says their gonna purchase 2 million of them and put them next to the mints on pillows for folks who stay at their hotels around the world...according to some niccas in here (and elsewhere), Paris Hilton would be the hottest rapper out.

Ditto for Oprah putting a couple million copies of her rap album in O magazine.

You believe that?

That's how innane it is for folks to put too much stake in record sales.

But that's exactly what can happen now...

Still, this is some ultimate hustla chit. Gotta give props to Jay for that...

Hilton wouldn't waste money buying Paris Hilton's album copies because it does nothing for their brand to market music from somebody who has no fan base or audience. Your hypothetical is a fantasy

 

[Nintendough]

Yo Shawneesha Camel-Knowles fans? How does it feel to know that your hero had to go run to the RIAA to cover up the fact that aint nobody checkin' for his camel water hole ramblings that he calls lyrics?

 

[Taadow]

Hilton wouldn't waste money buying Paris Hilton's album copies because it does nothing for their brand to market music from somebody who has no fan base or audience. Your hypothetical is a fantasy

1. Whether or not Paris Hilton has "no fan base or audience" is arguable.

2. What about Oprah?

 

[Nintendough]

Funny that Mr. Knowles is about that snug fit denim lifestyle...last time I chilled in BK all I really seen were jim jones 05' fit smedium shirts and old navy loafers. How symbolic