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You send out a tweet, and wish for a solid number of re-tweets, Jay-Z sends out a few tweets per year and gets it featured on the cover of Billboard Magazine in less than a week. We call that the power of #newrules

After announcing a new album with the launch of a Samsung commercial, Jay-Z caught the attention of the masses by proclaiming that his album will be platinum before it even goes on sale. But in their newest issue, Billboard is clearing all of that up. 

The new article touches on why Soundscan will NOT be counting album sales for the first million fans through their app. 

Check out an excerpt below: 

But our role as the chart of record is to set the rules, and hopefully even raise the level of play. It is in this spirit that I say it wasn’t as simple as you might think to turn down Jay-Z when he requested that we count the million albums that Samsung “bought” as part of a much larger brand partnership, to give away to Samsung customers. True, nothing was actually for sale — Samsung users will download a Jay-branded app for free and get the album for free a few days later after engaging with some Jay-Z content.

Head over to Billboard to read the full article.