Jay-Z‘s Magna Carta Holy Grail was already guaranteed to have the best opening week sales of any album in his career, thanks to Samsung’s decision to buy 1 million copies in advance.
Now the rapper can boast another best: the most first-week streams of any album in Spotify’s 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? It’s hard to say without knowing his precise royalty rate and the breakdown of listeners on Spotify. For the music service’s paid tier, per-stream royalties are typically somewhere in the neighborhood of half a cent.
If all of Magna Carta‘s 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.
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