{"id":9219,"date":"2011-08-18T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9219"},"modified":"2011-08-18T14:44:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T18:44:12","slug":"%e2%80%98watch-the-throne%e2%80%99-shatters-itunes-first-week-sales-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9219","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Watch The Throne\u2019 Shatters iTunes&#8217; First Week  Sales Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The collective of <strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> and <strong>Kanye West<\/strong> moved 290,000 digital copies of their long awaited LP <em>Watch The Throne<\/em> on iTunes, setting a record for the highest first week sales in the online music store&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The album, which was released exclusively on iTunes last Monday (August 8), shot past previous iTunes record holder <strong>ColdPlay<\/strong> for first week sales.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CP&#8217;s<\/strong> 2008 album <em>Viva La Vida<\/em> moved 155,000 digital copies making it a record at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In less than 24 hours following<em> The Throne&#8217;s<\/em> release the album hit No. 1 on iTunes in 23 countries. An official sales number that includes digital and physical copies will be revealed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to predictions, the album is on track to move 400,000 to 500,000 copies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collective of Jay-Z and Kanye West moved 290,000 digital copies of their long awaited LP Watch The Throne on iTunes, setting a record for the highest first week sales in the online music store&#8217;s history. The album, which was released exclusively on iTunes last Monday (August 8), shot past previous iTunes record holder ColdPlay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}