Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Jay-Z’s New Album Tops Billboard’s 200

Jay-Z's "Magna Carta Holy Grail" album storms in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 527,000 copies in its first week, according to preliminary data from Nielsen SoundScan.

The larger-than-expected start is the second-biggest sales week for a single album this year. According to Billboard,  it bypasses the previous runner-up, Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories," which opened with 339,000 in May. Both albums trail behind the year's largest frame, racked up when Justin Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience" exploded with 968,000 in its first week.

The latest sales week ended at the close of business on July 14. The rest of the new Billboard 200 chart's top 10 will be revealed today.

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