Jay-Z’s Album Clocks Best Opening Week In Spotify History

Jay-Z: Magna Carter.

Jay-Z‘s Magna Carta Holy Grail was already guaranteed to have the best opening week sales of any album in his career, thanks to Samsung’s decision to buy 1 million copies in advance.

Now the rapper can boast another best: the most first-week streams of any album in Spotify’s history.

The numbers are in, andMagna Cartaclocked 14 million full album streams in the U.S. alone, easily topping recent record-setting releases from Mumford & Sons (8 million) and Daft Punk (9.5 millio...