Jay-Z’s New Album Drops Early To Compete With Torrents

Thanks to an early leak , the eleventh studio album by Jay-Z is now expected to arrive in stores in the US on September 8, three days ahead of its original release date. Despite efforts by the record label to prevent the leak from spreading, it is now widely available on BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks. According to our most recent statistics the album has been downloaded by some 400,000 people on BitTorrent alone in the past days, making it last week’s most pirated music album.

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Jay-Z’s New Album Drops Early To Compete With Torrents

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