Unfinished Business (with R. Kelly)
Unfinished Business is the second and final collaboration album between American rapper Jay-Z and American singer R. Kelly. The album was released worldwide on October 26, 2004. It was distributed in the United States and Canada by Jive Records and Island Def Jam Music Group, by the Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) and its subsidiary Jive Records, except in Canada and the United States of America where Island Def Jam Music Group and its labels Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records replaced BMG. R. Kelly's label Rockland Records was also involved in the album.
Unfinished Business debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 215,000 copies in its first week. This became Jay-Z’s seventh US number one album and R. Kelly's fourth. In its second week, the album dropped to number ten on the chart, selling an additional 71,000 copies. On December 1, 2004, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of over one million copies in the United States.