" We think it's time for the RIAA - and Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman - to align our digital song and album certification requirements," Liz Kennedy of the RIAA wrote in Monday night's announcement. "That's why today we are officially updating this rule in our G&P Program requirements. But returns aren't relevant when it comes to digital sales, which is why the RIAA's Digital Single Award, created in 2004, does not include that lag time. Previously, albums had been eligible for certification - 100,000 copies for silver, 500,000 for gold, 1,000,000 for platinum, 10,000,000 for diamond - only after 30 days post-release, to take into account returns of CDs, records, and all those other formerly relevant formats.
The Recording Industry Association of America has amended their rules because of Jay-Z and the disruption he hath wrought once again, and now digital sales of all albums will be eligible for record-status certification on their release date.
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Īs soon as Jay-Z announced his deal with Samsung in which the tech giant bought up 1 million copies of his new album for Samsung Galaxy owners to download early, one question abounded: Did that mean Magna Carta Holy Grail had already gone platinum? Jay-Z himself even embarked on a rare Twitter campaign regarding the matter, and now he has at least one answer.
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The multiple Grammy winner tweeted Monday that Billboard should count his Samsung downloads.Ī representative for 43-year-old rapper didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment.įollow Mesfin Fekadu on Twitter: twitter.This article is from the archive of our partner. "Magna Carta Holy Grail" is Jay-Z's 12th album. Billboard said $3.49 is its minimum pricing of an album for it to count on its charts When Best Buy bought 600,000 copies of Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" in 2008, Billboard did not count those as sales. The Recording Industry Association of America followed that trend last month when it expanded its gold and platinum certification program to include song streams on the Internet.
YouTube data became one of the factors when ranking songs on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and other genre-specific charts. "I think what will happen in the next couple weeks is we'll advance these conversations some more." "When someone like Jay-Z takes the issue public in the way that he did, it encourages us to look at it with that much more rigor essentially," Werde said in a phone interview Friday. Werde added that Billboard has adjusted the charts to reflect how music is being consumed, and that Jay-Z's request gives the company more to think about.
doesn't mesh with precedent," Werde wrote. "The passionate and articulate argument by Jay's team that something was for sale and Samsung bought it. He adds that it wasn't easy turning down Jay-Z's request to include the downloads on the Billboard chart. In a letter posted on Billboard's website, editorial director Bill Werde says it won't count the downloads because Samsung ultimately isn't selling the album on its phones.
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