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Things You Could Spend Your Cash on Instead of Jay Z’s New £680 Champagne

The rapper’s fizzy grape drink costs the same as a literal piece of the cosmos.
Lauren O'Neill
London, GB

Jay Z, the world's second most influential music mogul after Asahd Khaled, owns a champagne company called Armand de Brignac, which produces the preferred tipple of the hip hop community (Henny not withstanding).

This week, the company announced that they'd be releasing a new champagne, Blanc de Noirs Assemblage 2, or A2, limited to only 2,333 bottles:

If you'd like one, it'll cost you a very casual $850 (£680), but before you go chucking your debit card at Jay Z to make this extremely essential purchase, please consider a few other things you could get for that cool, cool sum:

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22 stars
It costs only £30 to name a star via uk.starregistry.com, so for the price of Jay Z's fizzy grapes, you could own a literal part of space. It's your call.

A three night holiday for two to Lanzarote
At only £259 per person this works out at over £100 cheaper than the champagne. Even if you do have to fly from Exeter.

A couple of dairy goats
One night getting smashed on champers, or a few years of endless goat milk: you decide.

68 months (five and a half years) of TIDAL 
I mean, if you really are desperate to give Jay Z all your rent money, you might as well get something other than expensive vomit and a bad head out of it. Think of how much Lemonade you could listen to, on repeat, forever (or at least for precisely five and a half years).

136 bottles of ASDA prosecco
Drink of the gods and also of mums, and almost definitely more delicious than Jay Z's boujee champagne.

Me, probably
Nothing too weird, please, but if you're offering £680 to hang out with me I'll absolutely take it.

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(Image via Armand de Brignac on Instagram)