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

The release date of Jay-Z’s ‘Blueprint 3′ has been brought forward after it surfaced on various BitTorrent sites earlier this week. The album was originally intended to be released on September 11, exactly eight years after the first Blueprint release, but will now be rushed through sooner.

blueprint 3Thanks 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.

Afraid that holding back the album longer than necessary would result in a loss in sales, it was decided that the album should be available as soon as possible. Rhapsody already offered the album for sale since yesterday, and the other stores will do so this Tuesday.

Pre-release leaks are feared the most by music labels because they leave fans with no other alternative than to pirate. For those who’d like to listen to the album before they go out and buy it, the full Blueprint 3 album can also be streamed over at MTV’s … ‘The Leak‘.

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  • MovieFOX

    First :D

  • Unknown

    first

  • Unknown

    2nd

  • Alex

    3rd? XD

  • Alex

    3rd? XD

    and Awesome.

  • o dear

    ^ this is sad. moderate your comments torrentfreak.

  • Sir-Real

    Its already on VerTor, totally hittin’ that up!

  • Anonymous

    haha dance for us you puppet!

    Pirates for life!

  • http://www.eZee.se www.eZee.se

    Dont like Jay-Z and hate the labels… so i think i’m do a little seeding :P

    People….If you are downloading this and see a real fast seed from Sweden, you can thank me later!

    Cheers!

  • Sir-Real

    Good tunes, great quality!

    And I totally agree with @6.

  • Anonymous

    fghfjkn

  • Dan

    @1
    @2
    @3
    @4
    @5
    12th?!@!?@@ come on people, does it matter what number you were?

    @6
    Exactly =]

  • devvo

    haha this just shows how much influence the pirates now have on the record companies :D

  • SomeGuy

    14th

  • me@

    rite “We’re sorry. We have detected that you are outside of the United States. This service is currently only available to residents within the United States. “

  • Physuss

    The only problem is after all that bandwidth, you’re stuck with a Jay-Z album ;P Just Kidding, The more freedom = Win for all

  • Anonymous

    17th

  • JTK

    I’ll have to check this out later, Jay-Z and other rap is good IMO, if only for the sound of the beats.

  • US_Only

    I tried to stream the album via MTV and get some crap about not being in the US, so I guess it’s p2p download then, music industry muppets!

  • Guegs

    For people who want to listen to the album but aren’t in the US, just use a free proxy. Google for one.

  • Abcdefg

    Im seriously wondering, how do these things get leaked? Please reply! :)

  • GrX

    the Number One biggest Reasons for Piracy and here you have it folks!

    U.S. Only
    We’re sorry. We have detected that you are outside of the United States. This service is currently only available to residents within the United States.

    pathetic and they wonder why people choose to download un-authorized content how stupid are these people

  • Ragdrazi

    Twenty-third.

  • US_Only

    @20 Using a proxy is a pain unless you already have one that you use regularly and there’s simply no need to restrict to one country, they will sell the CD’s and downloads in other countries eventually anyway so why mess about, it’s moronic!

  • MissedMemories

    Mmmmm.. that fast? Companies are stupid.. I already told it.

  • 26th!

    26 w00t.

  • theghostbay.org

    haha. Yet another fail at preventing leaks.

  • wtf

    Funny how you people will look to any excuse and every excuse to justify what you do.

    Whatever lets you sleep at night, I suppose.

  • Old Timer

    Am I missing someting… they release it to US to preview from MTV but everyone else in the world gets a sorry you are not US so you can’t hear this…

    I couldn’t care less about Jzzzz so probably will ignore his songs, I could torrent them but I don’t because I probably wouldn’t like it anyway…unless I saw a sample…

    rediculouse…giving something away for free then limiting it.

  • Anonymous

    they moan that torrenters ruin sales…

    maybe they should prevent leaks :)

  • Anonymous
  • anon

    @28

    Poor baby..Want a cookie?

  • Phuk’em

    Jay Z is the whitest rapper out there. He got nothin on real hip hop. Souldja Boy = Jay Z < rap < southcoast rap.

    Repin.

  • Anonymous

    Wow that is pretty awesome how pirates pressured the music industry into dropping the album early.

    Keep up the good fight pirates.

  • Jasper van Weerd

    35th!!!

  • Boomdat

    They should lick my balls instead of the album. That album is wack. GAY Z THE CAMEL FACE.

  • peruna

    Good promotion. Leaked by K-mart worker :P

    http://warez.sivu.be

  • wtf

    @36

    nou

  • trial

    @36 As far as Jay-Z’s talent goes, I think this album was one of his best..

  • PlopIt’sFudge

    Awww poor record company.

  • Peter

    Who’s Jay-Z ? Some stupid American rapper bullshit again? No-one buys this crap, come on, bring back musicians.

  • Jay-Z

    My “music” is pure garbage.

    Rap = noise for idiots.

  • deadboyblues

    come on torrentfreak!
    you censor my comments but let the crap 1-5 stay up?
    jay z is another talentless hack who has others write and execute the album while he cheers himself and takes the credit.
    wont waste the bandwidth on this bilge…my isp can thank me later.

  • emilio

    42nd

  • Rhapsody

    We are going straight into bankruptcy :(

  • Anonymous

    Don’t know who Jay-Z is and really don’t care :)

    43nd

  • The Dude

    You can’t spell CRAP without RAP.

    Bring back *real* music, then I might think about pirating it!

  • Arentu

    47th! WOOOOOOT

  • Wintervenom

    TorrentFreak could really use a:

    sed ‘s:^.*["rd","nd","th"]$::g’

  • OMG

    OMG I’m 48th! WOOHOOO best day ever! BRB I’m going to wake my mommy up and tell her.

  • Daamnit

    CRAP… I was 49th not 48th. Woke my mom up for nothing.

  • mike

    Actually, you were 49th asshole.

  • Grrr

    Okay, don’t rub it in. I already feel bad for missing a great opportunity to be the 48th.

  • Anonymous

    53rd

  • SomeGuy

    54th

  • ihope

    I hope you guys are using scroogle scraper when you search for proxy or torrent sites. They delete their logs and don’t keep ip timestamps like google does. Bookmark http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm ftw.

  • atwintervenom

    @Wintervenom
    Forgive my n00bishness but what does sed sed ’s:^.*["rd","nd","th"]$::g’ mean?

  • double digits

    haha no mgmt on the album. :( poor kids were bragging about saying “yeah Jay-z came to us wanting some material” obviously it was shit.

  • ROLF

    wasted disc space, guys

  • jay-z? pfff

    i’d rather listen to a vanilla ice album.

  • uknowme

    Hiphop (with it’s educational and philosophical lyrics) is worth sharing and promoting… but Jay-Z, c’mon… if it wasn’t for the mention of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, you could hardly say he’s hiphop. It’s like Canibus, so far up his own ass the lyrics quickly become tedious and lame, a sign an artist has f**k all knowledge left to impart, imo. *yawn*

  • n00bf0rc3

    The power of Piracy.

  • anon

    @ 61 – vanilla ice roxxorz.
    And all you guys are doing is doing promotions and bumping a lame album from a mediocure artist.

    unworthy of seeding… district 9 on the other hand, that’s different.

  • jojo
  • The Dude

    VANILLA ICE BABY, YEAH BABY VANILLA ICE.

    JAZ-Z IS A VANILLA ICE WANNABE!!!

    ICE

    ICE

    BAAAAAAAAABY!

  • GAY-Z

    HAHAHAHAHAA

  • Sendaii

    I hate Jay-Z and everything that he stands for, but at least the labels have done something right for once.

  • Afro_pirate

    Fuck all Jay-z haters!

  • Afro_pirate

    People listen to hard rock and metal music but think rap is wack. Rap is far better than hard rock and metal music. Jay-z is not the best rapper but he is also not wack.

  • Afro_pirate

    fcuk Jay-z haters, white fools.

  • Sendaii

    @Afro_pirate: Yep, this guy’s definitely white.

    And I don’t hate rap, I just hate Jay-Z.

  • lmao

    damn these comments are hilarious!!!!!

  • dudemeister

    @1, 2, 3, 4, 5:

    Die in a fire, toolbags

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  • Anonymous

    agree with 48

  • djnforce9

    Good news. By releasing it early, fans who downloaded and loved the album do not have to wait as long to buy themselves a copy.

  • Anonymou$

    76th? xD

  • BuggerMeButtocks

    Jay zzzz = No-talent f*ckwit nigger, guilty of noise pollution.

    Death to all ‘Gangster wannabees
    Childish coont

  • knux

    Other than the obvious question of why people would even listen to this garbage… Why’d they let the leak happen in the first place? I mean it it kinda their fault that they let MTV of all people have the songs and a friends and family pre-release.

    It’s like taking the plans from the White House War Room and giving them to the enemy ear-hahahaa o hell what am I kidding they always have that crap leaked early.

  • Deville

    Really not worth buying it, normally I like Jay Z.

  • time traveling white rabbit

    its great to see that the music industry felt pressure to release an album ahead of schedule due to piracy…shows their greed in the process.

    regardless of his skin color, his album sucks, along with 98% of all other rappers/gangsters.

    you can make the argument that rap has accelerated the decline of american culture,ideals…the suburbs here are awash with cowardly white kids who dress,talk,act like their tough guys from the ghetto.
    these kids rob other kids,and sell crack to each other cuz thats what the rappers tell them is cool and ”respect”.

    rap is nothing more then a tool to promote drug dealing,murder,violence, and the misogynist abuse of women.

  • Black Pirate

    fuclk you jayz haters once they get all that metal or punk rock shit out yall love that piece of garbage that metal shi’t be louder than Rap some teime metal=metalmeathead mouther fucker’s

  • Jew

    Alleluia @81
    But those stupid US and UK kids will never understand.

  • ju

    a trend has started, 83rd

  • whatever

    “omg! we need to release (=sell) this album before anyone listens to it!” So that’s the logic, eh?

    We already know that music torrents increase sales, not decrease them, so it can’t have been for any other reason.

  • Banned

    85th

  • Jay-Z

    Oh, I forgot to mention … like 99% of all rappers, I am a “musician” who doesn’t actually play anything.

    As I was saying, rap = “music” for idiots.

    Now buy my CDs, kids! <3

  • Really You Lames are Too Funny

    Wow the comments here are lame.

  • h33t

    http://www.myspacecelebquotes.com/celeb/jay-z.htm

    holy fuk. this aint low brow it is toe brow

    http://www.h33t.com rap attack at ya douche!

  • jamal

    some of you white folks needs to stop hating on jay z. it seams to me that you are jealous. stop hating get over it.

  • relax

    90!

  • Rapper silly :-)

    91!

  • been done before

    mainstream albums have leaked to the internets since 99′, this is not news!!

  • Anon

    “Afraid that holding back the album longer than necessary would result in a loss in sales, it was decided that the album should be available as soon as possible.”

    Read: even a “Real nigger” and “original gangsta” will bow to moneygrubbing and greed. The toughest tough guy turns into weak a s s puss y as soon as it’s about the cash.
    Artistic value?
    Message?
    Meaning?
    Screw that, I’m soooo scared I might lose dollar and cent by not rapidreleasing my songs! I might not be able to buy that fifth Miami Mansion I’ve been saving up to put my dogs in for!

    Oh noes!

    Poor Jizzy.

  • Brian A Scates

    anyone notice how as Michael Jackson got more white he lost the ability to dance?

    96!

  • Jay-Z

    @ 91 Jamal

    Nobody be haterizin’ my black ass, foo’…

    This shyt be about da music which I can’t make cos my black ass don’t know shyt about no instrumentz.

    But I be a “musician” … man, that be some dumb ghetto logic up in this piece. Word, son … we mad slick!

    Peace.

  • 98

    @97 – Jay-z

    You didn’t sound like that on Bill Mahr

  • banky goes to mollywood

    100th.

    and yes, bro story cool (:

  • LadySpringBunny

    I used to be happy for Jay z and Beyonce sucess, but lets keep it real all they promote is hustline type music that fluids the market. He is a gangster rapper not hip hop. it use to be genres for hip hop. now other artist like T-pain is saying he is the best. Best at what starting mess, degrading women, and promoting unrealistic goals to the vulnerbable. Oh doing remixes now he is the best for that

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