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The album marks Ciara’s first disc for Epic and her reunion with producers Rodney Jenkins and Jasper Cameron, the team responsible for many of her early hits.
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THE RETURN OF CIARA AND THE RISE OF SKYLAR: Ciara scored the number two album this week by moving 58,000 copies of her fourth disc. That’s a record for solo acts, though he has six more to go until he matches the Beatles. We’re sure he’s crying about his bad press all the way to the bank.īillboard also notes that this is Jay-Z’s 13th Number One album. If you add in the Samsung million, it means he moved a whopping 1,527,000 albums in less than two weeks. Holy Grail debuted at Number One by selling 527,000 copies through traditional means – the second biggest opening week of the year behind Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience. Samsung paid him $5 million to offer the album to users five days early, but Billboard refused to count the million albums that the company bought.īut none of that wound up up mattering.
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Holy Grail has generated mixed reviews, and fans who attempted to download the album early with Samsung smartphones were confronted with overloaded servers and aggressive demands that they share personal information. HOV HAS THE LAST LAUGH: It turns out Jay-Z isn’t having such a bad month after all. It wasn’t enough to stop the steady decline of the music industry, though – overall sales are still down 13 percent when compared to the same week in 2012. A total of 4.84 million albums were sold this week, and over 10 percent of those were Jay-Z’s new disc. Holy Grail last week, he faced no major competitors. The same thing often (though not always) applies to the music industry: When Jay-Z dropped Magna Carta.
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One huge summer blockbuster movie usually scares away smaller films from even attempting to open up on the same week.