MUMBAI: As predicted Rapper Jay Z's latest album "Magna Carta Holy Grail" entered the Billboard charts at No.1 shifting 528,000 copies in its first week.
It is the 43- year old rapper's 13th No. 1 album, the most by a solo artist in the chart's history and second-best debut week for an album this year behind Justin Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience," which sold 968,000 copies, report said.
Magna’s shot to the top also marks the first time, four different rap albums have consecutively held the No 1 spot. Kanye West's ‘Yeezus’ was the first, followed by Wale's ‘The Gifted’ and J Cole's ‘Born Sinner.’
The sales figures do not include the one million copies that smart phone maker Samsung had purchased ahead of the album's release as a promotional tie-up.
Billboard had said that those sales would not count toward the album's figures because of rules on promotional bulk sales.