JAY-Z AFFAIRS!!

Hey, it’s your Boywonder bringing you another post but this time I thought I’d bring it on the state of jay-z’s affairs! And no I aint talking about him cheating on Beyonce due to certain aspects of his physical appearance/features and the fact that its not Aprils fools! Instead, I’m talking about the state of the artists that he has signed up to his Rockafella/def jam label, namely Rihanna and Teairra Mari! The whole world and his friend knows that jay-z is big in the game, just check out Rwd mag where all the artists interviewed during the power summit named him (and fiddy) as the most powerful man in the music biz! Jay-z is making a shed load of money which even still would just about be enough to cover the extensive amount of surgery needed to turn him beautiful (scrap that I mean average!) and is estimated as being worth over £180 million. However; the love hova is shown is not being converted into record sales for the signing of his young girls! Rather then going gold or platinum it seems that both girls are just about reaching plastic!!.

According to soundscan; in the US, Rihanna’s ‘music of the sun’ album has sold just over 200,000 copies to date while Teairra Mari’s (Rock-A-Fella Presents: Teairra Mari) has sold an even meagre 193,000 copies. To put this into comparison, Mariah Carey’s ‘Emancipation of Mimi’ has sold over 4million copies in the US alone (now that’s big!). In the UK, ‘Rock-A-Fella Presents: Teairra Mari' charted at #56 while the first single "Make Her Feel Good" charted at #72. Rihannas ‘Music of the Sun’ peaked at #35 while "Pon de Replay" charted at #2. Looks like certain chicks may be dropped quicker then the effects of what happens after drinking two cans of nourishment!!!


But its not all bad for Jay z as the signing of accomplished songwriter turned singer Ne-Yo looks set to return some credibility if not sales back to the label and is set to drop his debut album on UK shores on the 26th December. Tracks such as ‘stay’ and ‘so sick’ have already been getting huge rotation on the airways and should almost certainly beat both of his aforementioned label mates efforts combined.