That easily broke iTunes’s weekly sales record, set by While “Born This Way” benefited from an unusual promotion at that priced her album at 99 cents for twoĭays - a discount that resulted in more than 400,000 sales, according to some estimates - Lil Wayne’s fans paid full price.Īccording to Billboard 362,000 of the opening-week sales for “Tha Carter IV” were for digital downloads, about 345,000 of them from iTunes. But Lil Wayne’s accomplishment comes asterisk-free. It’s not quite the biggest debut of the year, though that honor goes to Lady Gaga, whose “Born This Way” moved 1,108,000 in May. (From 2007 to 2010, album sales over all declined 35 percent.) Since Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III,” which moved 1,006,000 in its first week in 2007. And it had the most sales for any hip-hop album sold well above the 850,000 to 900,000 that Billboard had predicted. “Tha Carter IV” - Lil Wayne’s real name is Dwayne Carter Jr. 29 - shortlyĪfter Lil Wayne gave the closing performance on MTV’s Video Music Awards - the album sold 964,000 copies through Sunday, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and it broke iTunes’s record for the The rapper’s latest album, “Tha Carter IV” (Cash Money/Universal Republic), had huge sales in its first week out, exceeding most industry estimates. In his review of Lil Waynes new album, Jon Caramanica writes that “Tha Carter IV” is “the least memorable Lil Wayne album in years,” adding that it “might not matter, least Pop Music Review Lil Wayne, With Punch Lines but Little Soul
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