How Lil Wayne Did on The Carter IV

After much speculation and plenty of sales projections over the past week that estimated that Lil Wayne’s ‘Tha Carter IV’ would sell 800,000 copies, the album went on to sell almost a million copies.
Although Hits Daily Double is reporting that ‘Tha Carter IV” has sold 1,000,690 units since it was released on August 29th, the Associated Press is reporting that the official soundscan numbers for Tha Carter IV were 964,000 sold in it’s first week. Still not bad for an album that leaked days before it’s release.

Birdman tweeted a photo of ‘Tha Carter IV Deluxe Edition,’ boasting about the album breaking iTunes records with a caption that read ‘C4.#Dont Lie.YMCMBusiness’. The photo also included the words:

“Lil Wayne – The Carter IV
iTunes – Record Breaker
Tha Carter IV Broke the iTunes record for first-week U.S. album sales in only four days with over 300,000 units sold. Lil Wayne breaks the record set only two weeks ago by Jay-Z and Kanye West’s ‘Watch The Throne,’ and held by Coldplay before that.”

Young Money CEO Mack Maine also celebrated the ‘milli news’, taking a stab at Jay-z when he tweeted:

“We did a MILL in the 1st week AGAIN!!! WE including all of u who helped and purchased da Album!! Love y’all!!! #YMCMB…C4 boom. Thank God all praises due!!! A old head once said…..”Men lie women lie numbers don’t” C4 milli in da first week.”

Wayne thanked his fans, shortly after the final numbers came in:

Wow!!!!!!!!!! I have the best fans in the universe! I thank you all. Hard work and dedication pays well. Young Mula baby!(weezy voice)

Tha Carter IV sales are the second highest of the year, trailing Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ which sold 1.3 million in it’s first week. (It should be noted that Gaga’s album was available for 99 cents through Amazon during the first week it was on sale, however, Wayne’s wasn’t priced that low). This is also the second highest selling album of Weezy’s career. Back in June 2008, Tha Carter III debuted at #1 on the charts, selling 1.01 million records in it’s first week.