Jay-Z’s Album 4:44 Not Platinum?

Whao!
So Jay-Z lied about his album’s numbers?
According to BuzzAngle, Jay-Z’s current album,
4:44, actually sold much less than 500,000
copies or downloads.

4:44 did not reach platinum status, despite the
RIAA issuing him a platinum plaque for that
photo op last month.

Jay-Z’s people claimed the rap mogul’s album
was downloaded or streamed aver a million times
in one week. But even that is a lie according to
some reports online.

“The fact that 4:44 has sold so much less than
500,000 is startling,” writes Roger Friedman on
his Showbiz411 blog.

According to BuzzAngle, ''4:44 has sold a total of
264,100 albums. That includes CDs and
downloads but not streaming. If you count in
streaming, including singles, the number still
comes only to 364,000.

This is a far cry from the 500,000 level that the
RIAA requires for a gold record, and 1 million
copies shipped for platinum. Still, the RIAA
awarded Jay Z a platinum album based on private
sales through Tidal streaming and direct
deliveries to Sprint customers.''

D'banj Signs New Global Distribution Deal With Priority Records

Nigerian pop star, D'banj has just signed a
global distribution deal with Priority Records.
The new deal will allow talented artists in Africa
that are subscribers to the Creative Reality
Entertainment Arts and Music Digital Platform
(C.R.E.A.M.) to now have access to global
distribution through Capital Records, parent
company of Priority Records; by DKM.
According to D'banj, "I am so humbled! A
dream that started on paper has finally come to
fruition. Africa is the future of the world. A year
ago, I launched a platform to help creative
talents find their dreams across Nigeria. The
platform was developed by Africans, for Africa,
to showcase artists across the world. It is
testament to what I always say that, content is
the New Crude Oil."
The deal comes just after the recent 130-million
dollars valuation of the one-year-old C.R.E.A.M.
Platform by one of the World's leading auditors,
KPMG.
Priority Records is an American record label
that changed the music industry by pioneering
distribution deals with artist-run companies. it
is known for many highly successful artists
including Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Master P, Jay-Z,
and Snoop Dogg.

See Beyonce And Jay Z's Twins Upclose

Beyonce, she is a lucky woman

Beyonce Unveils Her Most Talked-about Twins, Confirm Their Names (Photos)

35-year-old American pop star, Beyonce who is the wife of multi-millionaire hip hop mogul, Jay-Z, has finally unveiled the first official photo of the couple's two new bundles of joy on Instagram on Thursday night.

Ever since Beyonce and Jay-Z were reported to have welcomed their twins, the world has been yearning for a glimpse of the new offsprings of music royalty. Beyonce sated that yearn last night.

The singer who also has a 5-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy, confirmed the names of the two newest additions to the Carter family (a boy and girl) as she wrote: 'Sir Carter and Rumi 1 month today.'

Though they were born prematurely and had to undergo treatment for jaundice, the twins apparently turned out fine as the ‘Formation’ singer has now unveiled them via her Instagram page.

Noticeably absent from the photograph was her husband Jay-Z - real name Shawn Corey Carter, as she posed in front of a flower arch.

Kanye West splits with Jay Z's Tidal over money dispute

According to TMZ, Kanye West has left Jay Z's
Tidal company over money dispute and Tidal has
threatened to sue him. Read the full report from
TMZ below...
Sources connected to Tidal tell TMZ,
Kanye has been unhappy with the
company for a long time. We're told Kanye
has complained the company owes him
money -- more than $3 million. Our
sources say a month ago Kanye's lawyer
sent a letter to Tidal, saying the company
was in breach and the contract was
terminated.
Over the next 2 weeks lawyers for both sides
tried to resolve the conflict but failed.
We're told 2 weeks ago Kanye's lawyer fired off a
second letter declaring again the contract was
over. Kanye's decision to split from Tidal
predates the release of Jay Z's album in which he
trashes Kanye, and we're told Kanye had no
advance knowledge of Jay's lyrics.
We're told Kanye's beef with Tidal is twofold --
his Saint Pablo album resulted in 1 1/2 million
new subscribers to Tidal, for which he was
supposed to get a bonus but the company hasn't
paid.
Kanye also says Tidal reneged on reimbursing
him for music videos. Our sources say Tidal's
position is that Kanye didn't deliver the videos
required by the contract.
Kanye's response ... I'll deliver the videos when
you pay me what I'm owed. We're told Tidal fired
off a letter to Kanye, saying as far as the
company was concerned it still had an exclusive
contract with the rapper and if he tried to go to
another streaming service they'd sue him.
We're told Kanye's willing to walk away, but if
Tidal sues him, he'll sue them right back.

Jay Z admits he cheated on Beyonce in his new album and the Beyhive drag him on Twitter

Jay Z's new album was released in the wee hours
of this morning and it is all the rave at the
moment. The 4:44 album was dropped
exclusively on Tidal, a music streaming service
owned by Jay Z and some other music artists.
This is Jay Z's 13th studio album and it appears
to be really personal just like Beyonce's
Lemonade. In it, Jay Z revealed quite a lot,
including admitting that he cheated on his wife,
Beyonce and it affected her and their child, Blue
Ivy. He said it took Blue being born for him to
realize the value of his marriage.
He also rapped about that infamous elevator fight
with Solange and kind of acknowledged that it
had to do with him cheating. He called out his
former best friend Kanye West, OJ Simpson,
Rapper Future and more.
Following his revelations, the Beyhive went in on
the rapper specifically because he cheated on
their queen. The Beyhive aside, a lot of people
have praised the album as a work of genius and
one of the best in recent times.
The first song on the album is titled Kill Jay Z and
it makes reference to the death of the former way
of spelling his name without the dash. The new
spelling will now be JAY-Z, all in capital letters
and with a dash.
Calling out Kanye West in the first Song, Jay Z
said: "Ye' has changed. You dropped outta
school, you lost your principles. I know people
backstab you, I feel bad too. But this fuck
everybody attitude ain't natural. But you ain't the
same, this ain't KumbaYe."
Addressing the 2014 elevator fight with his
sister-in-law Solange, Jay Z confirmed in the "Kill
Jay Z" track that she attacked him because he
cheated on her sister and refused to acknowledge
his fault.
He rapped: "You egged Solange on. Knowin' all
along, all you had to say you was wrong."
Jay Z expressed remorse for cheating on Bey. In
the track Family Feud, he makes reference to
Becky, a name Beyonce mentioned in one of her
songs, "Sorry", from the Lemonade album when
she said, "better call Becky with the good hair".
Jay Z raps: "Yeah, I'll f*ck up a good thing if you
let me / Let me alone, Becky / A man that don't
take care his family can't be rich."
He continued in the track 4:44 "Look, I apologize,
often womanize / Took for my child to be born /
See through a woman's eyes / Took for these
natural twins to believe in miracles / Took me too
long for this song,"
"I don't deserve you, I harass you out in Paris,"
he added in "4:44". "Please come back to Rome,
you make it home. We talked for hours when you
were on tour. Please pick up the phone, pick up
the phone."
The father-of-three continued to address his
infidelity on the track titled "Kill Jay Z". He said
he could have lost his family from his cheating
ways. He went on in the same track to shade
rapper Future for letting his relationship with
Ciara end.
"You almost went Eric Benét.. Let the baddest girl
get away... In the FUTURE, other niggas playin'
football with your son," he says making reference
to Future's son with Ciara, Future Jr., whose
stepfather is NFL star Russell Wilson.
He also addressed his mother's sexuality and
finally acknowledged that she is a lesbian (read
here )
On the track titled "Family Feud", Jay Z talks
about Rev. Al Sharpton's mirror selfie that hit the
internet just last week (read here). This is an
indication that the 4:44 album was only recently
completed.
There are 10 tracks on the 4:44 album and they
include: Kill Jay Z, The Story of O.J., Smile,
Caught Their Eyes, 4:44, Family Feud, Bam,
Moonlight, Marcy Me, Legacy.