Jay-Z’s “Magna Carta Holy Grail” Projected To Sell More Than 500,000 Units Its First Week

    Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail is expected to sell between 350,000 and 400,000 copies its first sales week in stores, making it the presumptive #1 album when sales figures are announced next week (July 17), according to billboard.com. The sales projections are based in part on pre-orders through digital retail outlets. 

    If Magna Carta Holy Grail does indeed debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart next week, it would be Jay-Z’s thirteenth #1 album, as per Billboard. Jigga already holds the record for the solo artist with the most #1 albums in music history. The Beatles, who have 19 #1 albums, are the only artists with more #1 albums than Jay-Z, according to the story.

    Jay-Z gave away 1 million copies of the album via Samsung users July 4 and the retail version of his album became available today (July 9). The next sales tracking week ends Sunday (July 14).

    Last week, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced that it was changing the way it certifies releases as gold and platinum, in part because of Sumsung purchasing 1 million copies of Magna Carta Holy Grail. “Going forward, sales of albums in digital format will become eligible on the release date, while sales of albums in physical format will still become eligible for certification 30 days after the release date,” Liz Kennedy, Director, Communications and Gold & Platinum Program, RIAA, wrote on riaa.com July 1. Traditionallly, a release is certified gold once it sells 500,000 units and earns platinum status once it sells 1 million units, and had been available for purchase for at least 30 days.

    Jay-Z’s most recent solo studio album, 2009’s The Blueprint 3, debuted at #1 and sold 476,000 copies its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Hov returned to the #1 spot two years later with Kanye West for the Watch The Throne album, which entered the charts at #1 with 436,000 units sold its first week, as per Billboard.

    (June 9)

    UPDATE: Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail is expected to sell 528,208 copies its first sales week in stores, making it the #1 album in the country, according to hitsdailydouble.com. The final sales figures will be released tomorrow (July 17).

    Magna Carta Holy Grail will become Jay-Z’s thirteenth #1 album, according to billboard.com. The site initially reported that Magna Carta Holy Grail would sell between 350,000 and 400,000 units.

    Ciara’s self-titled album is slated to be the #2 album in the country. It is expected to sell 57,515 units its first week in stores, according to hitsdailydouble.com.

    RELATED: Jay-Z’s “Magna Carta Holy Grail” Causes RIAA To Update Certification Policies

    230 thoughts on “Jay-Z’s “Magna Carta Holy Grail” Projected To Sell More Than 500,000 Units Its First Week

    1. oh god dentaldamboy is flaming again.
      Good summer tho: Statik Selektah, RA the Rugged Man, J Cole, Hov, and counting!

    2. looks like tomorrow J cole gonna have the number 1 album after he sells more this past week than Wale and Kanye!!

      1. what has ja done since he got out? nicca on house arrest he the most irrelevant nigga in the game even soulja boy and lil b more relevent and your al mighty ja

    3. Jay gonna push about 400k I think, the album is dope. Checkout thegrandreport, they have some cool entertainment news and videos in there too

    4. Many of the so called, “legends” are fucking wack. Jay Z, Nas, Dr Dre, Eminem, Kayne West, 2Pac, Biggie, those are all wack lyricalists who are becoming more and more pop each day. On the other hand, YMCMB and MMG are keeping it real and are saving it from true destruction. Many of the “legends” are also gay. Jay Z and Kayne West close relationship is suspect, Nas kissed Dr Dre, which is gay since Dre is not Nas’s father in any form (unlike Wayne and Birdman, Eminem hates women, why complain about Wayne wearing his daughter’s pants when 2Pac wore a fucking tutu, and Biggie could only attract men with his wack rapping.

      BTW, those guys using my name are fakes.

      1. just kill yourself. you worthless piece of cum, your daddy should have flushed you down the toilet instead of blowing it inside your whore mom

      2. Man, your statement had me laughing like seriously thats sum funny shit hahahaha you cant be serious tho, i can counter every statement in that comment XD

      3. Why are you complaining about Wayne wearing his daughter’s pants when Tupac wore a fucking tutu?

      4. when did pac ever wear a tutu? where the pics at? we all seen wayne wearing those little girl pants and pink t-shirts with fuzzy green moon boots.

        SEE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YA MOMMA SNIFF JENKEM WHEN SHES PREGNANT, YOU GET A FUCKTARDED CRACK BABY LIKE DENTALDAMBOY WHO HAS NO JOB, NO LIFE, GOOD FOR NOTHING! WASTE OF AIR!!

        GOOGLE JENKEM IF YOU AINT KNOW WHAT THAT IS

      5. I did some research and found out that was actually Biggie, Puffy, and Dre (Pac didn’t like them). No Tupac.

      6. i clicked your link and its not a real photo, just an illustration

        just cause he took ballet doesnt mean he worse a tutu

        women wear tutu’s

        lil wayne wears his 14 year old daughters pants and kissed men on the lips. thats way gayer than taking ballet

    5. Eminem’s new album is bombing right now. The album is called Triumph and it hasn’t received promotion at all. I listened to the album and all it is is just collaborations with Skylar Grey every song.

      1. I also have Eminem’s new album and it’s wack as fuck. Skylar Grey is on every song but Big Sean makes an appearance and Dr Dre as well. Eminem doesn’t even rap, just sings shitty pop tunes.

      2. Hey dickboy. Your name alone indicates you want to stick your dick into someone’s ass. That’s way gayer than wayne kissing birdman (which isn’t gay at all since they are father and son.)

      3. You made that bullshit up, which isn’t true. There’s nothing gay about an arrow. Wayne and Birdman kissing is GAY, PERIOD. Two grown men kissing is gay, period. Why can’t you get that through your thick skull, faggot?

      4. You’re the fucking faggot. Why use an arrow to represent your dick? Wayne and Birdman are father and son. You’re a douchebag who spends his time making fun of others. You use my fucking name a lot. You the one that needs to die for all the bullshit you’ve said. Fuck you Fuck You Fuck You!

      5. More delusional bullshit you made up. The arrow is an arrow pointing at a comment, no dicks involved, fag. Jump off the highest building in your city.

      1. dude, more to your point, he didn’t give them away, samsung did. he made money off that million.

      2. I understand what’s meant by “not great”. Being the best rapper in the game one would expect to see a lot more sales even with the mill that Samsung gave away. Times have changed though. It actually is great these days. Only Em, Ye, Weezy, Cole, & Drake will see anything close.

        Does every one that buys that Samsung phone get the album or only fans that want it? Let’s say 650,000 of those people weren’t going to even think about buying it. Thats’s still a high first week sale. i’m just curious as to how that works with the free album.

    6. Those are amazing numbers taking into account the 1 mil albums samsung bought.

      Jay-Z stays winning. Dope album and great sales as well.

    7. God Im such a fucking faggot. My arrow represents my dick trying to rape dentalboy’s ass. God, Im just a 12 year old kid.

    8. Whenever I take a shit I never wipe my ass, that way when I swallow a cock the shit around my shit hole lubes it up.

    9. All you retarded fucks that reply to dentaldamboys comments are the reason he keeps coming back and posting dumb shit on the comment sections. STOP replying to his lies. Ignore his ignorant 12 year old ass.

      1. Im not 12 years old. ^ is. I had nothing to do with his posts. And fuck you all who’s making gay jokes. Im straight. Im fucking STRAIGHT. S-T-R-A-I-G-H-T spells STRAIGHT!!

    10. Who cares! That bitch could sell 2 billion and I could give a fuck less. Get off of rick people nuts.

    11. HAHAHA DRAKE WILL GO PLATINUM IN THE FIRST WEAK THEN ALL YOU CUNTS WILL LEARN TO ACCEPT THAT DRAKE RUNS RAP NO1 WANTS TO HEAR THIS WASHED UP OLD ASS CAMEL AND HIS SHITTY MUSIC DRAKE RUNS RAP FACT!@

      1. It was finished and released but because of lack of promotion, most retailers did not stock it.

    12. @ ^:
      the amount that you respond to trolls you’re pretty much a troll yourself. just ignore that shit so people dont have to read twice the irrelevant comments and comebacks.

    13. As an accountant for YMCMB, i can confirm Hip Hop started in the streets and it will forever be in the streets, the fact of the matter is. Nobody in the streets is listening to Jay Z, only kids from the burbs. I ain’t feelin this album, i don’t care how lyrical he is, it’s fuckin wack in the streets. Only people in the urban community (not suburban ) should have say to what is dope hip hop and what isn’t, this is NOTHING special. Kids from the suburbs tend to think just because a rapper is “lyrical” that makes them great! 2Pac , Too Short, Eazy E, and many many others weren’t the most complex rappers but they are more legends, why? Because they kept it street. These underground, and lyrical cats can rhyme as many words out of the dictionary that they want and it is still wack in the streets why? Wack subject matter, wack hooks, wack beats, nobody wants to listen to any of that. People wake up, street hip hop (biggie, 2pac, big l , meek ) any rapper that reps the streets, YES even Gucci will have more respect than these lyrical cats, because hip hop IS the streets, and if the streets aren’t feelin it, than it doesn’t matter how versatile you are, wack is wack no matter what, this album is nothing special, and kids from the burbs need to stop givin this shit 5 star reviews!!

    14. “Not great numbers??? Consider he GAVE AWAY 1 Million copies already”

      I don’t care if he gave away 10 million copies. It shouldn’t/ doesn’t count.

      1. damnn you always so butthurt about anyone being more successful than your boy Officer Ricky who couldnt give away a million copies if he tried, he doesnt have that many fans!!!

      2. n why shouldnt it? Jcole bought 50 or so of his CDs with Drake, and I bet they counted that. Regardless of if he sold them to a consumder, company, or crackhead, sold is sold. Stop hatin.

    15. “he didn’t give them away, samsung did. he made money off that million”

      After Jay approved. It was more publicity for Samsung phones than anything else. How many of those people already had the phone? I’m betting a lot.

      1. everyone already had the phone. that was the point! the give it to their customers. and i aint hear no one talking about samsung phones but there been like 5 articles this week at least on Magna Carta Holy Grail

      1. You the fake. Im the real deal.Birdman fired me now Im a hiphop whore. Hmm who should give me the next anal drilling Lady Gaga or Frank Ocean. Decisions…Decisions 🙂

      2. you the fake. I whore my self out at HHDX!! Don’t be mad just because I get more dick than you.

    16. lol at this nigga with his stupid asss markt promo. jay z per usuall is not gonna fuck with eminems new lp in terms of lyrics and sales this is common knollege

    17. Congrats to Jay Z from Cash Money and YMCMB. as some of you may know, i am an accountant with Cash Money and i love birdman’s c*ck in my mouth

    18. “everyone already had the phone. that was the point! the give it to their customers”

      For free. That’s my point.

      1. what does it matter, albums gonna go 2x plat anyways when he sells a million on top of the million they gave away

    19. “Officer Ricky who couldnt give away a million copies if he tried, he doesnt have that many fans!!!”

      Based on worldwide sales, I’d say he has 11 million fans.

      1. no shit, cause if he did some of his albums would be platinum! LMAO quoteman went from saying 8 million worldwide to 11 million in like the span of 2 months officer ross must be killin it overseas

    20. they givin jigga his platinum record the day his album hits stores shit officer ricky must be jealous as fuck!

    21. “too bad he cant sell a million even once in the USA!!!”

      Doesn’t matter where you sell as long as you do.

    22. “what does it matter, albums gonna go 2x plat anyways when he sells a million on top of the million they gave away”

      That million Samsung snatched up doesn’t count, tiny. Not now or in the future. Focus, man. Focus.

      1. apparently it does dawg cause they gave him his platinum record yesterday. i saw the pics! im sure Jay-z is super bummed that Quoteman says his sales don’t count though! hahahah

    23. “he sold them to a consumder, company, or crackhead, sold is sold”

      No, sold is not sold. Imagine if every rapper had a company buy up 1 million of their albums before the release date. That’s called cheating. Just another shady business trick Jay’s doing to make it seem like he’s still dominant. I’ve liked a lot of Jay’s music, but like he’s done for so many years, put the shit out and see where the numbers fall. Don’t use gimmicks.

      1. Exactly….every rapper can’t do that. Shady business trick making $5 million. Give me a break. He still pushed 500k after doing the million 4 days ahead of the actual release date. The album will still go platinum and he’s still going to have that $5 mill from Samsung.

        It’s a “shady business trick” because he actually got $5 on every copy instead of settling for pennies on the dollar like almost every music artist actually gets when their albums sell. Too funny.

      2. You are fucking stupid. How does it not count. Its the same thing as selling your album to a walmart, target, best buy and other stores. Samsung just decided to give it away for free. You just a dickriding hopsin fan who’s mad that hopsin cant and wont sell more than 50k first week

    24. “apparently it does dawg cause they gave him his platinum record yesterday”

      I don’t care if they gave him 10 plaques. He didn’t sell 1 million copies.

      1. no one cares what you think. you dont give out the certifications you’re just an anonymous hater on the internet!

    25. Those haters arguing about whether the 1 mill to samsung counts or not can cry some more, because Jay is going plat anyway.

      He might even do 2 milli.

      So fuck off haters.

      1. Nope. No typos. Hov sold more than 500k 1st week, being a huge success. Hitsdailydouble and many industry experts will say the same thing. Don’t let your hate cloud your judgement.

    26. ITS OFFICIAL YOU CAMEL NUT RIDERS DRAKE WILL OUTSELL JAY Z AND ITS A FACT. NO1 WANTS TO LISTEN TO THESE OLD RAPPERS ANY MORE IN THIS DAY AND AGE DRAKE WILL OUTSELL EVERYONE FACT*

      1)Drake has the most number 1 hits at the age of 26
      2) No other artist from the new wave of rappers goes double platinum like drake does
      3) Drake is breaking a lot of records and he hasn’t even reached 30 yet
      4) Drake is the face of rap everyone listens to rap for drake
      5)Drake is the only 1 capable to go platinum first weak these days and drake will go down as the greatest of all time when its all said and done
      6)Drakes tours are the highest selling out of all rappers drake runs rap its a fact stop denying.

      Drake is the face of rap and drake runs rap

      1. When I see Drake runs rap’s comment, all I picture is this guy with Drake’s dick in either his mouth or asshole.

      2. 1.5 millions sales in one week and you say no one want to listen to Jay? When you stated that drake is the only one capable to go platinium in one week i think u and drake are still waiting for this cause it’s not a fact.

      3. 528k first week is the best sales in a long time we’ll see if drake can keep up

        hov got more platinum albums than drake has cars

      4. Drakes last album take care double platinum. Jay z and kanyes last albums WOOD drake runs it now just accept it you camel hump riders

      5. Actually, Jay and Kanye’s last albums went platinum. Drake doesn’t run shit. Get the dick out your mouth.

    27. If u gotta problem with jay z selling a million copies to Samsung and u rap ..U LOST… It’s the music business mannnnn.. Let Hov handle his business DAMN!

    28. Jay Z is running this game right now. While not the best album, Im still happy that Jay Z went 1.5x platinum already.

      1. Illegal downloads don’t count because they can’t be tracked. The fans bought all of the copies.

    29. congrats to Hov, and to the folks who keep responding to dentaldamboy and his many obvious other names, DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS!

    30. Samsung BOUGHT 1m digital copies of MCHG. Doesn’t matter if they gave it away AFTERWARDS, they PAID for them! But look at this Quote-Man clown talk:

      “too bad he (RICK ROSS) cant sell a million even once in the USA!!!”

      >Doesn’t matter where you sell as long as you do.

      1. loL, fucked that one up:

        “too bad he cant sell a million even once in the USA!!!”

        >Doesn’t matter where you sell as long as you do.

    31. wtf? here’s the jewel:

      “too bad he cant sell a million even once in the USA!!!”

      >Doesn’t matter where you sell as long as you do.

    32. As an accountant for YMCMB I can confirm Jay Z does not want to go to war with YMCMB. Wayne already said that if Jay Z disses one more time, he will go Mel Gibson on him. The YMCMB army is built for war. Wayne a certified gangsta. He got 3 tear drops, did a bid on the island and all that. Wayne ethered rappers and even caused permanent damage to Dez Bryant’s knee. Jay is wack. All Wayne has to do is throw him a rock and Jay will fuck his life up again

    33. We are too divided because of big business in the hip hop game, it is a numbers game not. mainstream hip hop is losing it artistic form.

    34. Album is boring n weak ass fuck. You nigglets realin feelin that shit huh, when you be ridin around in the summer with the windows down and your subs bumpin lol?! Fuck that weak ass album.

    35. the only reason why people don’t consider Jay to be the greatest is because he aint dead yet. We jump on everyone’s dick when they die. If pac and biggie were alive today, they likely would be retired and have a reality show done on VH1. Longevity is the test of greatness. This dude is 43 years old, and is still releasing #1 albums, and even his first #1 hit. He a one of the most powerful hip hop moguls, and one of the wealthiest. Most young MC’s credit Jay for their influence than any others!

    36. u fools need to stop blogging here, get outta yo house and go grab a copy of my classic album that has ALREADY sold 3mil!!

      #RED ALBUM

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    38. Lol seems like the rappers who only move 150k-200k are safe. If you sell under 150k you’re the biggest flop and if you move more than 200k you’re considerd over hyped.. Jay is one of the nicest but since he on top right now erebody wan point they hatin’ finger at em. yall did the same wit kendrick after goin’ platinum. I guess people mix up being a sell-out with an artist that sells.. Hatin’ ass niggas! Jay stay winning.

    39. Ja Rule – Fuck Fame , will outsell all these wack nigguz these days. #JARULE #FUCKFAME #RULETALK

    40. As an accountant for young money, I can confirm that our bitchasses will never sell that many copies again. We’re broke bitches with no money.

    41. thats just not true. The quality of Nas shit today is absolutely better than Jay. I am big fans of both but thats the truth. Jay’s flow has started to become stale and drawn out

    42. Gucci Mane = realest rapper ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      – T.I. snitch to the feds
      – Young Jeezy was never bmf
      – 50 Cent snitch and was never in jail but a youthcamp
      – Game was never a banger but lived the life of his brother in his lyrics
      – Nas Escobar never sold drugs
      – Ice Cube never was a gangbanger
      – Dr Dre never was a gangbanger
      – 2pac was a ballerina and never sold drugs after he become famous he was doing some stupid stuff like beating and shooting at people because he though he could get away with it. Without Suge Knight 2pac was just a skinny motherfucker. Oh and i like his music so fuck you.
      – Mobb deep are the biggiest pussies in rap they are short as midgets and keep talking this g shit but never did g shit.
      – Jayz never did a crime in his life listen to open letter

    43. You know J has the money to buy a shit load of them albums,He dont want his record to flop.I wouldnt be suprised if he fucked the numbers up like fake youtube veiws.

      1. Hate-filled excuses. This is Jay-Z. Every album he puts out does well in sales and goes platinum. He doesn’t need to buy them.

    44. Love this record a little slower and some of the songs sound similar and blend in abit bout over all 4/5 sounds fair to me..Kanye’s album is still my favorite out of the lot of them IMO

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