Going forward, sales of albums in digital format will become eligible on the release date, while sales of albums in physical format will still become eligible for certification 30 days after the release date. That’s why today we are officially updating this rule in our G&P Program requirements. “It is a novel and creative marketing move and it has rightly stimulated a healthy conversation about the sale’s meaning and implications for the modern music business … We think it’s time for the RIAA – and Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman – to align our digital song and album certification requirements. “By now, many of us in the music business, as well as Jay-Z fans, know that Samsung has purchased one million “ Magna Carta Holy Grail” digital albums to be given away to the phone maker’s customers,” Liz Kennedy, Director of Communications and Gold & Platinum Program at the RIAA wrote in a blog post. Now, the Recording Industry Association of America has taken his #newrules strategy into account and has announced a new shift in the system that will certify his highly-anticipated opus platinum upon release. RIAA Chairman and CEO Cary Sherman said: Props to Jay, he’s done it again Another platinum album adds to an already iconic career. That’s more than any other hip-hop artist ever. Jay-Z threw the book at the standard formula for album releases when he announced that a million copies of his twelfth studio effort Magna Carta Holy Grail would be distributed for free through Samsung on July 4. It’s still a good album and regardless of how he got it, 4:44 is Jay’z 13th studio album to go Platinum.

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