Commercial Performance
It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 462,000 copies in its first week, which is thirty-percent more than the first-week sales of Jay-Z previous album Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life (1998). Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter peaked at number one on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album shipped two million copies in its first month of release. On February 14, 2001, it was certified triple platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of three million copies in the United States.
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