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Selling 500,000 copies in its first week, it also received double platinum certification by the RIAA and was supported by the pop-oriented single, "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)" (featuring Pharrell), which peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became his first to reach number one on the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
As of December 2014, Jay-Z has sold 29,179,000 studio albums in the United States. [1] Jay-Z began his music career in the 1980s, building a reputation as a fledgling rapper in his hometown of Brooklyn and collaborating with his mentor and fellow rapper Jaz-O. [2] Jay-Z later founded Roc-A-Fella Records with close friends Damon Dash and Kareem ...
The following is a list of songs by Jay-Z organized by alphabetical order. The songs on the list are all included in official label-released, albums, soundtracks and singles, but not white label or other non-label releases. Next to the song titles is the album, soundtrack or single on which it appears.
Ranked by Billboard and Rolling Stone as one of the 100 greatest artists of all time, [27] [28] Jay-Z was the first rapper to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame [29] and the first solo living rapper inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013. [8]
Jay-Z, Outkast, A Tribe Called Quest and Black Star all dropped albums on this day in 1998. ... Rolling Stone ranked it #500 on “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” but updated their list in ...
This is a list of the world's best-selling albums of recorded music in physical mediums, such as vinyl, audio cassettes or compact discs. To appear on the list, the figure must have been published by a reliable source and the album must have sold at least 20 million copies and certified at least 10 million units (the equivalent of a diamond ...
It’s a testament to Jay’s greatness that just thinking of creating a list like this is daunting, but we did it. Jay-Z’s 10 Best Songs Marcus Shorter
It is Jay-Z's best selling album as of 2013 and was certified 5× Platinum by the RIAA in 2000. By 2013, the album had sold 5,400,000 copies in the United States. [19] The album won Grammy Award for Best Rap Album at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards. Though he won the award, he boycotted the ceremony, citing what he sees as the Grammys' continuing ...