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 ...

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?

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 ...