Jay-Z & Kanye West's "Watch The Throne" Breaks iTunes Sales

[VeNoMmaLicious]

Jay-Z & Kanye West's "Watch The Throne" Breaks iTunes Sales Record

Hov and 'Ye's collaborative album becomes the highest selling digital album in history for first-week sales.

Jay-Z and Kanye West's collaborative album Watch the Throne, which was released exclusively to iTunes last Monday (August 8th), has broken a record for the online store.

According to reports, the LP has become the highest selling album in the store's history for first-week sales, moving about 290,000 copies to break Coldplay's previous record with 2008's Viva La Vida, which sold 155,000 copies.

Upon its release last week, Watch the Throne rocketed to number one in 23 countries worldwide. Final first-week sales, inclusive of digital and physical units, will be reported on Wednesday.

Source: http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.1 ... um=twitter

On HITS Daily Double: Watch The Throne has sold 308,472.
http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi
Note: That isn't the final results..What we know for sure is they broke the record but not the exact amounts

[VeNoMmaLicious]

Finally an awesome album that sells well.

Don't forget this is only the DIGITAL sells. They haven't even recorded the amount of hard copies sold.

[slimsoxshady]

290? Thats it?
Weren't there preliminary estimates of 500+ last week?

EDIT: oh its just digital. But the album dropped on Friday so i doubt it sold too many over the weekend since most albums drop on a Tuesday.

[Almostlity]

NOW IN: 31.77%


LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 JAY Z & KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/ROC NATION 308,472

308k @ 31% ?!?!

I ain't even mad haha

[VeNoMmaLicious]

NOW IN: 31.77%


LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 JAY Z & KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/ROC NATION 308,472

308k @ 31% ?!?!

I ain't even mad haha

Yeah I forgot to post that in the original post. This album sells is just amazing.

[Almostlity]

Percentage doesn't mean shit dude calm down.

+300k already and 1/3 of the sales counted

it'll sell a shitload.

[Almostlity]

Percentage doesn't mean shit dude calm down.

+300k already and 1/3 of the sales counted

it'll sell a shitload.

That doesn't mean each portion has +300k in it though. Just remember.

i know.

[slimsoxshady]

Percentage doesn't mean shit dude calm down.

+300k already and 1/3 of the sales counted

it'll sell a shitload.

That doesn't mean each portion has +300k in it though. Just remember.

yea but most of the time it's smaller in the beginning
this album could do 700k
what was the exact number on Recovery?

[Mahmoud48]

its gonna sell atleast, 600k

[Devil'sAdvocate]

i dont give a fuck about sales

but thats cool

[SG.]

Honestly, was anybody not expecting this?

[Drug.Ballad]

UK Official Chart:

#3 Watch the Throne

[SG.]

iTunes' been hyping it for about four weeks as an exclusive. Plus it's two of the biggest artists in the game making a collaboration album? Boom.

Isn't it still less than Born This Way though (Goddammit!)?

[slimsoxshady]

only female pop stars can knock Recovery off

[shadyfreakzul]

is it an album or a EP/