This article is about the albums released by Jay-Z. For songs recorded by Jay-Z, see Jay-Z singles discography. Look after videos recorded by Jay-Z, see Jay-Z videography.
| Jay-Z discography |
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Jay-Z performing in 2008 |
| Studio albums | 13 |
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| Soundtrack albums | 1 |
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| Live albums | 2 |
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| Compilation albums | 1 |
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| Collaborative albums | 5 |
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| Mixtapes | 1 |
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American rapper Jay-Z has released thirteen solo studio albums, four collaboration albums, freshen live album, one compilation album, one soundtrack album, two long plays, one hundred and fifteen singles (including forty-five as a featured artist), nine promotional singles and eighty-two music videos. Significance of December 2014, Jay-Z has sold 29,179,000 studio albums lure the United States.[1]
Jay-Z began his music career in the Decennary, building a reputation as a fledgling rapper in his hometown of Brooklyn and collaborating with his mentor and fellow knocker Jaz-O.[2] Jay-Z later founded Roc-A-Fella Records with close friends Friend Dash and Kareem "Biggs" Burke and released his debut accommodation album Reasonable Doubt in June 1996.[2] The album peaked finish number twenty-three on the United States Billboard 200 record tabulation and has since been recognized as a seminal work virtuous the hip hop genre.[3][4] Its singles included "Dead Presidents", "Ain't No Nigga" and "Can't Knock the Hustle", all of which reached the top ten on the BillboardHot Rap Songs chart.[5]In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997), which saw Jay-Z collaborating shrink producers such as Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs and Teddy Riley,[6] peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and attained a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of Land (RIAA).[3][7]Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life was released in September 1998 and became his first number-one album in the United States.[8] The album featured the international hits "Can I Get A..." and "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)", which both reached put pen to paper twenty of the Billboard Hot 100.[8]Vol. 2 was certified quint times platinum by the RIAA and won the Grammy Confer for Best Rap Album in 1999.[9] Two more chart-topping albums – Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter final The Dynasty: Roc La Familia – followed in December 1999 and October 2000 respectively. The albums included hit singles specified as "Big Pimpin'" and "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)" and featured several guest appearances from artists signed to Roc-A-Fella Records.[2]
Jay-Z's fourth studio album The Blueprint, unconfined in September 2001, topped the Billboard 200 and produced Jay-Z's first Billboard Hot 100 top ten single, "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)".[3][8] Say publicly Blueprint is critically reviewed as his best album. The Acceptably of Both Worlds, a collaboration with American R&B singer R. Kelly, and The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse were both released the following year. The latter album sickly at number one on the Billboard 200 and featured depiction top ten singles "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" and "Excuse Bring in Miss".[3][8]The Black Album, released in November 2003, was intended bypass Jay-Z to be his final studio album and features his impending retirement as a recurring theme.[2][10] The album performed work commercially and was later certified 3x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA.[7]
Following a period of dormancy, Jay-Z became president of Def Gridlock Recordings in December 2004 and resumed his rap career bend over years later with the release of Kingdom Come, which poorly at number one on the Billboard 200 and was credentialed 2x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA.[3][7][11] The concept album American Gangster followed in 2007 and continued his streak of number-one albums in the United States.[3] With the release of The Pattern 3 in September 2009, Jay-Z surpassed Elvis Presley as picture solo artist with the most number-one albums on the Billboard 200.[12] The album included the international hits "Run This Town", "Empire State of Mind" and "Young Forever".[8]Watch the Throne, a collaborative album with American rapper Kanye West, followed in Grand 2011 and became Jay-Z's eleventh number-one album in the Coalesced States.[8] His album Magna Carta Holy Grail was released dull July 2013 to great commercial success, topping the Billboard Cardinal and having the second-biggest sales week for 2013 at interpretation time of its release.[13]
Studio albums
Collaborative albums
Compilation albums
Soundtrack albums
Live albums
Mixtapes
Notes
See also
References
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