Facebook X Reddit Email Save. Jay-Z’s eighth studio album “The Black Album,” turns 20 this year, which makes me feel like looking at retirement brochures because who knows where the time goes?

These seven albums have achieved 3x platinum status or more, with the most being 6x platinum for Jay-Z’s third solo album Vol. 2…Hard Knock Life (1998). Below, we at American Songwriter ...

Jay-Z has sold over 33.5 million albums to date. Although Jay-Z is the first Black male recording artist to achieve this feat, Mariah Carey was the first Black recording artist to have 10 solo ...