Jay Z’s 4:44 goes Platinum.  But it doesn’t appear on the Billboard charts. WTF?

For the second week in a row, DJ Khaled’s album, Grateful, has reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200.  According to Nielsen Music, Grateful earned 70,000 equivalent album units, down 53 percent from last week.  Traditional album sales composed 16,000 of the entire sum, also down 68 percent from last week.

Calvin Harris’ Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 debuted at No. 2, a new record for the DJ.  Noticeably absent from Billboard’s tally was Jay Z’s 4:44, which recently went platinum.

So why did Jay Z’s 4:44 fail to reach the list?  The answer: TIDAL didn’t report the album’s streaming numbers to Nielsen Music.

Read more at https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/07/10/tidal-jay-z-444-billboard/