![]() “Learning about Jay-Z’s enormous and admirable ambition two weeks ago simply didn’t leave time for this, Werde wrote. ![]() Alterations aren’t unprecedented: the magazine earlier this year began including YouTube views in its formula for calculating placement on its singles charts. Werde says that in the coming weeks Billboard will be reexamining the charts and to determine whether changes are necessary as the music industry continues to shift. Jay-Z announced the album during Game 5 of the NBA finals last week. Label sources expect first-week sales of the album to be in the range of 400,000-450,000, which will most likely situate Jay-Z at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Once Magna Carta Holy Grail is available for purchase, the sales will count toward chart rankings. Werde says that if Jay-Z and Samsung charged $3.49, which is minimum threshold for a new release to count on the Billboard charts, for either the app or the album, the U.S. In that case, the albums didn’t count as sales until purchased by fans from the retailer. That precedent includes a situation from 2008, when Best Buy purchased 600,000 copies of Guns N’ Roses’ LP Chinese Democracy.
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