Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV Thread

[EM-DZ]

R.I.P HIPHOP

[Innovation]

[firepower]

http://rapradar.com/2011/09/06/lil-wayn ... umber-one/

Wow, Birdman ain’t lie. According to Hits Daily Double, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter IV sold an estimated one million copies. If the number holds up, he becomes the second rapper after Eminem to hit platinum twice in the first week. The final tally is in tomorrow, but this will mark Weezy’s third number one album. Belee dat.

[brockl101]

It's official: Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter IV" has sold 964,000 in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan, easily enabling its No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 chart. It is his third No. 1 album following "Tha Carter III" and "I Am Not a Human Being."

"Carter IV" earns the biggest sales week for a hip-hop album (or any set by a male artist) since his own "Carter III" bowed with 1.01 million on the June 28, 2008 chart. "Carter IV" also marks 2011's second-biggest frame, behind Lady Gaga's 1.11 million debut with "Born This Way."
 
Lil Wayne Breaks iTunes' Single-Week Album Sales Record
 
Of course, Gaga's first week was bolstered by two days' worth of 99-cent sale pricing from AmazonMP3's store. "Carter IV" managed to sell nearly a million without such tactics. It's estimated that AmazonMP3 sold upwards of 440,000 downloads of its 99-cent "Born This Way" album.
 
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Speaking of downloads, "Carter IV" shifted 362,000 digital copies in its first week. That marks the second-largest digital sales week of all time for an album; again, behind "Born This Way," with 662,000 downloads.

However, while SoundScan does not disclose retailer-specific figures, sources say "Carter" easily broke the U.S. iTunes Store's single-week album sales record, with around 345,000 sold via iTunes.

[brockl101]

It's official: Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter IV" has sold 964,000 in its first week according

So... who's right?

Nielsen soundscan total is the one that counts.

[Mahmoud48]

All Wayne cares is bout them sales who cares if the album is a classic or wack if it sells that's all that matter

[SoldierShady]

As much as I hate this fagbiscuit, all I can say is men lie, women lie, numbers don't.

[shadygeneral]

Young Money buying their own albums back again? haha

[dshady89]

love the "sells more then recovery"

these stans must be having they period.

Im up in this bitch,pardon the goons!

Im a huge stan but im still happy for Wayne, I wished he surpassed Gaga and her 99 cents deal.

[SliK]

Congrats to Wayne

[K Reidy]

I just don't understand... has the world honestly become this stupid? We are moving backwards. I can't even facepalm this its so beyond that.

[richard]

wtf

[deaneedog]

The amount of followers one has does not make it good. Take Hitler for a far far-fetched example. This album is beyond whack. Actually saneness me that people buy such terrible music when there so much better MC's selling a tenth of this.

[EminemBase]

I never thought it would sell that much.

I think it's mainly because of the song with Drake on. People are obsessed with that cheeseball.

Wayne is just huge in America though. Not Worldwide. He is known WW of course, but Eminem is still a lot bigger as a global artist, icon and public figure.

Tha Carter IV only charted at no. 8 in the UK. Recovery went #1 in many countries.

[Innovation]

Actually saneness me that people buy such terrible music when there so much better MC's selling a tenth of this.

Classified, Mic Righteous, Vinnie Paz, Diabolic. I could go on.