Jay Z’s newest album Magna Carta Holy Grail has amassed many records and expectations of many in the music business, and now it has one more to add to its collection - Spotify streams.
The multi-platinum selling album set a record 14 million streams in its first week on the service, according to sales data USA Today received from Nielsen SoundScan. The former record for streams in a week belonged to Mumford & Sons’ most recent album Babel, which received 8 million streams in its first week. It officially set a record for most single-day streams as well.
Magna Carta Holy Grail sold 527,000 units last week, besting recent albums by Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Daft Punk, and Mumford & Sons.