Jay-z confirmed to Billboard that his ROCnation label will be signed with Atlantic Records for the distribution.
Jay-z tells Billboard:
"That's pretty much just for this specific album. Roc Nation -- we're experts in marketing and making records. But we do distribution deals," he says. "On this one, we're working directly with the Atlantic staff, which is Julie Greenwald, Lyor Cohen, Kevin Liles and Kyse Mike Kyser. For the rest of the Roc Nation artists, we did a distribution deal with Sony."
Jay-z also told Billboard he originally approached Def Jam with the same distribution deal idea four years ago, but was shut down. "You have to figure, this is like four years ago, and to them it was just like, 'Are you crazy? No! Make a song!'" he said. "To me it was like, I've sold companies for huge amounts of money. I'm an entrepreneur -- that's what I've been all my life. I can't just sit here and make records and not do anything else. Why wouldn't you want to do this with me? I felt under-utilized."
As you know Jay was orginally planned to bring out Blueprint 3 trough Def Jam contract but he decided to buy him out of the contract for 5 million.
Now that's a smart move, because Jay knows that Blueprint 3 will be his best selling album ever.
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