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"Watch The Throne" Debuts At Number One On Charts!

Posted August 17, 2011 by Brittany Lewis for Global Grind Staff

We experienced the hype and we watched the throne, and now the final numbers are in!

Jay-Z and Kanye West's collaborative album Watch The Throne debuted at number one on the Billboard Charts, selling a total of 436,079 copies in the first week of its release. 

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Billboard predicted that the rap duo would selling an estimated 400k-500k copies, and they were dead on. 

Watch The Throne broke iTunes records with selling over 300,000 digital copies, which has never happened on iTunes before.

In total, Watch The Throne sold 320,893 digital copies and 115,186 hard CD copies. 

This good news makes this Kanye's 5th number one album and Jay-Z's 12th number one album. 

Watch The Throne will definitely go platinum by the end of the month.

Congrats Jay and Ye!

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