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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.
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]
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.
“Decoded” (2010): Jay-Z’s memoir goes into explicit detail about how his former lifestyle influenced his music. He confessed to being deeply involved in selling crack cocaine.
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
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
Theoretically, if one song were streamed 1.5 billion times on YouTube, the single would receive Diamond and the whole album could be certified Platinum, [7] thus creating a combined total of 11 million certified units without any sales.
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 "Biggs" Burke and released his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt in June 1996. [2]