[uptown]

Acquisitions like this make no sense to me. At best you're getting access to the current popular artists under temporary licenses from a platform that's failed to gain a massive user base.

[tedmiston]

Calling Kanye / Jay Z / Beyonce "the current popular artists" is a bit disingenuous. Look who he out-sold:

> 10 #1 albums in a row, who better than me?

> Only The Beatles, nobody ahead of me

> I crush Elvis and his Blue Suede Shoes

> Made the Rolling Stones seem sweet as Kool-Aid too

http://genius.com/31930

At this point he is a dominant force in music... and we're not even talking the commercialized aspects beyond albums themselves. Jay is a genius.