{"id":82728,"date":"2013-05-17T13:55:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/05\/jay-z-is-coming-to-africa-how-billboard-com-fooled-african-media\/"},"modified":"2013-05-17T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:55:46","slug":"jay-z-is-coming-to-africa-how-billboard-com-fooled-african-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/05\/17\/jay-z-is-coming-to-africa-how-billboard-com-fooled-african-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z is coming to Africa: How Billboard.com \u2018fooled\u2019 African media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-connect-like-button\"\/>\n<div class=\"c1\" style=\"\"\/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28862\" alt=\"jay z in nigeria Jay Z is coming to Africa: How Billboard.com \u2018fooled\u2019 African media\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/05\/4f31jay-z-in-nigeria.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" title=\"Jay Z is coming to Africa: How Billboard.com \u2018fooled\u2019 African media\" \/>A couple of days ago, I received a lot of flak when I published dates for a Jay-Z world tour and immediately pulled it down to publish an apology that my information on the tour was wrong. \u00a0When I received a tip that Jay-Z had included Ghana and several African countries his in world tour, I immediately googled \u2018jay-z world tour\u2019 and the most direct result was from Billboard.com so I clicked on it to read further.<span id=\"more-28861\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The article had the information: \u201cJay-Z has nailed down details for a seven-week world tour to spread awareness of the world\u2019s water crisis. The trek will begin Sept. 9 in Krakow, Poland, and run through Oct. 28 in Melbourne. It will be chronicled via the MTV documentary \u201cDiary of Jay-Z: Water for Life,\u201d which will premiere Nov. 24 on the network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also included the dates for the world tour as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 9: Krakow, Poland (Coca-Cola SW Live Festival)<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 10: Bratislava, Slovakia (Incheba)<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 15: Amsterdam (Heineken Music Hall)<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 16: Germany (TBA)<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 18: Istanbul (Refresh the Venue)<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 19: Athens (Olympic Arena)<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 21: Manchester, England (Evening News Arena)<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 22: Glasgow (SECC)<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 23: Birmingham, England (National Indoor Arena)<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 24: London (Wembley Arena)<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 26: Dublin (the Point)<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 27: London (Royal Albert Hall)<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 29: Paris (Le Zenith)<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 30: Milan (Fiera di Milano)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 2: Barcelona (Teatro Heineken)<\/p>\n<div class=\"c1\" style=\"\"\/>\n<p>Oct. 4: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Diamond Jubilee)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 6: Accra, Ghana (Accra Conference Center)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 7: Lagos, Nigeria (Ocean View)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 9: Luanda, Angola (Cine Karl Max)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 11: Cape Town, South Africa (Belleville Velodrome)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 13: Durban, South Africa (ABSA Stadium Outer Fields)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 14: Johannesburg (Coca Cola Dome)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 17: Hong Kong (TBA)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 18: Bangkok, Thailand (BEC Tero Hall)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 20: Seoul, Korea (Walker Hill Gayagum Concert Hall)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 21: Taipei, Taiwan (Taipei Dome)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 23: Singapore, Singapore (Suntec City Concert Hall)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 25: Sydney (Entertainment Centre)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 27: Brisbane, Australia (Entertainment Centre)<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 28: Melbourne (Rod Laver Arena)<\/p>\n<p>Since there was no year attached to the dates and Billboard.com articles don\u2019t show the dates they were published, \u00a0I immediately assumed they were dates for this year, especially since the article was top in my google search.<\/p>\n<p>After publishing it, a friend on twitter brought it to my attention that the dates were of the rapper\u2019s 2006 World Tour which brought him to Ghana, Angola, South Africa among others. \u00a0\u00a0In fact some comments on the article about a similar confusion from South Africa, suggested that the SA tour dates are same as it was in 2006. I also then did a quick search for the date of the 2006 Ghana gig and realised same. \u00a0These led me to immeidatley remove the article and replace it with the apology.<\/p>\n<p>However it seems that I wasn\u2019t the only one that was \u2018fooled\u2019 by the Billboard post. Several reputable media outlets across Africa and in particular, Nigeria continue to publish dates for Jay-Z\u2019s tour. So I wonder, is the rapper really coming to Africa this year or were the majority of us done in by the old article from Billboard? Jay-Z if you are out there somewhere, please speak out!!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"c1\" style=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/05\/df02tonaton_p1_200x200.gif\" title=\"Jay Z is coming to Africa: How Billboard.com \u2018fooled\u2019 African media\" alt=\"tonaton p1 200x200 Jay Z is coming to Africa: How Billboard.com \u2018fooled\u2019 African media\" \/><br \/><noscript><\/p>\n<div id=\"adconb_e4604b968c\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/05\/756eptn.php_159.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\" Jay Z is coming to Africa: How Billboard.com \u2018fooled\u2019 African media\" title=\"Jay Z is coming to Africa: How Billboard.com \u2018fooled\u2019 African media\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp_rp_wrap wp_rp_momma wp_rp_content\" id=\"wp_rp_first\">\n<div class=\"wp_rp_footer\">Zemanta<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-connect-comments\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A couple of days ago, I received a lot of flak when I published dates for a Jay-Z world tour and immediately pulled it down to publish an apology that my information on the tour was wrong. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}