According to HitsDailyDouble – Lil’ Wayne who was predicted to sell around 850,000 records has indeed moved 1 Million units of his new album Tha Carter IV. Even with a leak and not so great reviews one thing is clear. WAYNE HAS SELLING POWER!!!
UPDATE – According to Soundscan figures the album actually sold 963,970 albums (Still 1 Million if you ask us)
What new purchase will Baby make with these numbers???
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C4 moved more in one week then WTT has in 4 weeks
this is weak… Game has by far the best record on this list
Yeah man I thought Game would do anthr 100 k atleast after all the great reviews, prob is gangsta rap dont sell no more, its all about the Gimics ..
I def cosign RED as the best album of 2011
Impressive!
Definite buy backs in there but I believe he truly sold at least 500K
Congrats but Hip Hop is truly dead LOL
Stop comparing WTT to Carter 4.
That’s not fair
It’s like comparing Men’s denim yo Jeggings!!!
LOOOOOOOOL
Well spoken Johnny Blaze. Hip hop is balls! Its titanic right now. Way below expectation.
Funny how such a talented rapper messes around with music n yet still manages to outsell real music. That goes to show how poor the kids of today think musically.
Wat can I say? its the effect of money, brain-washing promotion and lost kids with no direction of where to go musically. I´m gutted.
No hating. These kids need to research music of the past. Research their longetivity on the billboard and whether those songs made it to 20 yrs. Nowadays its all about LETS MAKE THEM DANCE AND EAT POPCORN WITH OUR MUSIC AND VIDS. I dont see people playing or calling A Milli a classic in the next 20yrs, or even the 6 feet 2 whateva.
Gawd! to hell with hip hop, I’ma start buying some jazz and contemporary rock! black music is truly dying at its fastest rate. so why not help it.
I agree ….its a sad day in music.
Ya niggas need to do more digging. there is tons of real great amazing hip hop out there it’s just that you have to look for it harder. Don’t give up on hip hop just because mainstream turning into different genre. Hip hop will always live.
For example check, CYNE, Terminology, Action Bronson and many more this is just naming a few out of my head.
Don’t give up, this will show your weakens. Hip Hop is stronger and we can’t give up on it just because mainstream keep it corny.
I totally agree
swag.
Baby bought all those albums to try n prove to jay-z that Wayne does sell more than him.. That’s my theory n I’m sticking to it..
it’s pathetic.
Artist do buy their own album to help sales. Nothing new…
Where is your proof? Provide a link from a reputable source.
so do you have proof? or are you just posting reckless and hating?
It’s not hate.. You just have to think about the type of egos involved. Ask yourself why baby wouldn’t do such a thing..
Agree, I haven’t heard or seen anyone yet saying the bought ot going to buy c4 and yet it moved milli? Hmmmm we need a warrant to check Birman’s garage .
are you fucking kidding. your a fucking a dumb ass. generations change you idiots. people want something different and unique. and thats what lil wayne bring to the table, seperting himself from everybody. i bet all you motherfuckers are bumping to his shit #goweezyymcb
I agree!….
“generations change you idiots.” Well if that’s the case, then no wonder why this generation is so dumb down. Plus with your cornball music ya making teenagers IQ drop to a single digits. Muthafuckas dumb as shit now days. Can’t even elaborate or think critically for once.
Honestly, you seem like someone who could explain how intelligent this generation is. Don’t hate on the generation because people lost focus on education standards and then compare that to music taste. Two completely irrelevant things and I guarantee you that you would not be able to find enough of a correlation between the rap music that is mainstream and the education of the youth to prove any point. Before you want to speak about how idiotic everyone else is, think about what you are trying to prove.
If you don’t like Lil’ Wayne, why do you have to try to take some bullshit stance about how he dumbs down the youth, just state that you don’t like him.
agree.
yesss,better than WTT, i think better then C3,this album got more range.GO WEEZY!!!
Yeah you are either 12 or your name is baby.
HA!
Lifefiles mad as hell…..yall dikkride jay-z so much
I don’t believe it. I think baby has made enough of a purchase of Wayne’s albums.
“I don’t believe you….you need more people!” Lol!….. not even Em is moving numbers like that “COME ON BABY!” That’s that old Master P tactics right there…..buy your own product back…….but hey! #’s don’t lie right? Lol!
Carter IV is one fyah album and I’m not the biggest Wayne fan…but that shit is straight heat…hot beats…dope lyrics….on point features….that’s what sells records
On point tho
Until someone can definitively prove that Baby purchased the majority of those albums, I don’t believe that Wayne didn’t legitimately sell that many downloads & albums.
He has a huge following that mainly consists of fans who purchase albums; i.e.: suburban kids who are pop radio listeners & MTV/106 & Park watchers.
The last hip hop artists who came close to mirroring Wayne’s numbers are B.o.B, Lupe Fiasco & Wiz Khalifa. Again, look at their audience… they’re one in the same.
It’s all about having those #1 hit records that top Billboard charts. B.o.B had “Nothin’ On You” & “Airplanes”, Lupe had “Shining Down” & “Words I Never Said” & Wiz, of course, had “Black & Yellow” & “Roll Up”. Go back and listen to those songs and then consider the demographic that they serve/appeal to.
The same applies with Wayne having “How To Love” and any of his numerous collaborative tracks. He stays in the public eye by consistantly saturating the market with hit after hit.
Instead of hating, look at his business model & work ethic and learn how to replicate it. Or you can continue to write off his success as a fluke/conspiracy and keep being a bitter, jealous hater.
As for me, I can’t knock his hustle.
Wanted to go HAM you, but there’s just so many things incorrect in your comment, that I’m just going to leave it alone as I’m not into leaving essays as comments
You wanted to go ham on him? You Jay-z dickriders always doing too much. And to the other dumb ass the term “Work Ethic” refers to Waynes diligence in producing a mass quantity of songs…Which is undeniable. Nobody here is rooting for Waynes’ ethical values.
I’m really at a loss at why everybody squabbles on the net about who sells the most records. You would think some of you have money invested and if you do, bravo.
Business model? How can you mention ethics and wayne in the same sentence with a straight face?
I dont knock his hustle…but i like real Hip Hop…there is just not that much to choose from these days….and it dayum sure aint coming from Young Money – tatted, blingned out looking clowns!.
i guess the numbers do lie……….
they don’t. you do.
Numbers do lie look… I sold 1,000,000 copies of my album also
post an accredited link of it asshole.
Guess your simple mind doesn’t really understand what that means…in your comment, the number “1,000,000″ didn’t lie but YOU lied with the number “1,000,000″. So who’s really lying?
So numbers just magically appear? There’s no one punshing them also huh? I’m in fianance trust me numbers do lie
^You obviously still missed his point. people lie with numbers cuz numbers don’t lie by on their own. Just like a 2 can never mean a 1
Idk anybody thats checking for that album or purchased it and I go to 2 major Universities and no one is even talking about it at the frat parties on fb on tweeter or nowhere not barbershops not at work or nothing…
..now I am not saying the numbers are funny cause I dont know that to be true.
To your question…. he should buy a book.
Em who has more fans than Wayne and jay-Z combined didn’t even do 1 mill a week and Wayne did? I would’ve believed if the album was decent enough, but with so much garbage content on it I’m not buying this story.
I don’t know a single person who has purchased this album….. Maybe because my friends aren’t 12 years old
How many cds can you trade for a bugatti
I wont lie its questionable to how Wayne sold a mill in 1week and its a true point that Em has more fans and still didn’t do that. its also real talk that no1 is saying much about C4. So i won’t be surprised if baby bought that shit back or either Wayne has randomly got a bunch of white fans. will never know rite cause numbers don’t lie. i guess if DRAKE doesn’t do this same numbers IL really question this shit…
IF U HAVE THE MONEY TO DO IT AND YOU WANNA DO IT FUCK IT BUY YOUR OWN ALBUM TO MAKE A POINT…….AND I DONT HAVE PROOF THAT HE DID BUT TRUTH BE TOLD NO-1 IS TALKING BOUT THE WEEZY ALBUM AND TO END THE DISCUSSION WITH NO ARGUE..IF EMINEM DIDNT DO IT I’M SORRY WEEZY WE DONT BELIEVE U YOU NEED MORE PEOPLE.
he did it again…..haters goin hate
only white people brought this trash!! wayne is a joke
There are over 300 million people in the United States, today. It’s not that far fetched to believe that 1 million of could be Lil Wayne fans.
If you have PROOF that Baby bought the majority of those albums, then by all means, provide that proof and your source.
Until then, stop hating and move on with your lives. You have the option of either staying bitter or you can choose to get better… I suggest the latter.
^this.
why am i the first one here to question, the reliability of the source? HitsDailyDouble? never even heard of that site, show me a Nielsen soundscan or Billboard.com numbers then lets talk again.
Lil’ Wayne = Modern Day Minstrel Show
you just gotta wait for the second week numbers, so you have an idea of what he truly sold. I bet hell sell no more than 150k. I mean, eminem (the biggest hip hop selling star) cant move those numbers anymore, not even with several #1 hits on the cd.
The question is, will Wayne overtake Shady in all time rap sales? interesting… he’s definitely moving in the right direction and doesn’t appear to be going anywhere fast.
Dont get silly..EMIN3M has 1 album that has sold more than that guy entire career!
….dont get silly cause NO one is going to do 20mil off of 1 album again!…and EM and 2 albums that did 20mil btw
EM has sold over 100million records and singles…that other guy has sold around 10mil and he has only been hot for C3/C4 and he been out since like 1997 and has like 8 albums already…so lets not get silly
this is bull. if http://www.billboard.com does not even say 1 mil then where did lifefiles pull dis garbage from. get ur facts right
http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi
you mad?
Nah nigguh, I could care less about this coonery music.
I’m sorry…i dont believe that….
Young money turns me off. They are childish and i dont know anyone over 21 who loves Wayne. He’s immature and lacks business savy to me. WTT is a better album by far. I will be glad when this Young Money fad is over.
They are low class bottom feeders to me.
Be glad when it’s over? Or you can act like an adult and seek the forms of music you enjoy without being a dick sucking self serving ass muncher.
Your comment: Case and point!
C’mon, men. Let’s stop thinking about rap/hip-hop only, let’s switch to another genres. Beyoncé didn’t do this with “4″ (I know that it isn’t her best album, but still, it’s BEYONCÉ) and another artist that I can quickly think that moved 1 million copies in her first week was Lady GaGa.
Just think about this: does LADY GAGA has the same number of fans than WEEZY, or the same influence than him?
damn you old niggas man as hell.
You young niggas need to know how to spell. Dumb Fuck!
If the second week sales are going to be dramatically low, then it’s no doubt that a large amount of C4 was purchased by someone. And if you still going to believe that C4 did a milli legitimately then your a delusional ass muthafucka. Until then won’t say anything else, but yes I’m very suspicious about the sales.
not true. it’ll just mean that his fans are first week buyers. in fact that phenomenon is common with younger fan bases where there is social pressure to purchase immediately upon availability.
first off, people fond of conspiracy theories of any sort should be aware that it varies inversely with IQ.
second, no one has yet to show proof of any financial incentive to purchase albums – there is no financial incentive on the part of labels or artists. Music is now considered a loss leader – so pumping more money into purchasing albums back? doesn’t make any sense.
in fact it would probably be easier to bribe someone at soundscan or whatever- more efficient and cost effective because there would be no numerical anomalies.
in short, you conspiracy niggas are fucking brain dead. it’s impossible that 1/3 of 1 percent of a nation’s population would buy wayne’s album to you, so there must be a million dollar conspiracy involved.
i lost like a billion brain cells just typing this. you niggas are dumb. and old too – so you don’t have any excuse to be such belligerent haters that it blinds you to reason.
Bullshit, I have yet to see an album from any gender selling first week million little more or less and next week sells are down by %60+
i have seen it many times.
i’d post links – but since you could easily google it for yourself – i won’t waste my time discussing something with someone who clearly likes to talk about things he knows nothing about.
No, provide the links. Prove me wrong please. Thank you.
just from earlier this year – lady gaga’s sales:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lady-gaga-s-born-way-196317
84% drop from week 1 to week 2.
proved wrong. enjoy yourself.
and notice the second sentence in that article – I’ll quote:
“While it’s not unusual for albums that enter with mighty big sales frames to tumble hard in week number two, Gaga’s fall is amplified, courtesy of AmazonMP3.”
NOT UNUSUAL, dickhead. NOT UNUSUAL.
again. proven wrong.
kanye west – Graduation: week 1 sales: 957,000 units.
week 2 sales: 226,000 units (-76%)
jay-z – Kindgom Come: week 1 sales: 680,000 units
week 2 sales: 140,000 units. (-79%)
There are examples in every genre. the shit happens all the time.
Damn…that’s impressive considering how WTT, MBDTF, and R.E.D. all go harder than C4. I’ll tip my hat to him but I’m still confused as to how he moved those numbers. I don’t know anyone who purchased the album. Furthermore, for an album that just dropped, no one is quoting lyrics and no one is buzzing about it on social networks.
im not buying this. how the fuck can he sell a million records first week when he didnt even have a radio hit like he did for c3 with lolipop, a milli? the c4 almost had no buzz compared to c3. laday gaga who sold over a million first week had sold her cd for .99c for a couple of days. i agree with everybody that says that baby bought most of those cd’s
I have no problems with wayne selling a million copies, didn’t the carter4 sell a mill to. My issue is he products)albums are actually getting worse. The mixtape he had before this album was dope as shit, but the last two few albums from wayne have been sub-par.
So for me it is less focus on album sales and more on how good the album is. I listened to the album and out of like 20 songs, I like 4. Wayne is just all over the place….he is now a cliche rapper. I feel like he gets a list of cliche sayings and makes them into rhymes. He can never stay on topic with the song and doesn’t really rap about to much..
You can tell when he has help because the songs come out better….How to love, lollipop, and such, eventhough they are pop songs, he at least stays on point with the subject…Iono…man, he is a great talent, but I feel like he spends too much time trying to be a gimmick and hop on the new trends and has not really found who wants to be as an artist.
Congrats on the sales though!
Scratching my head ……… how did he sell a 1M
Something don’t seem right about those numbers..I like everyone else on the net don’t know anyone who brought the album… but good albums rarely sale a lot in this is a good example of that..what the public wants is fast food music instead of classics that will be played years from now..
Did you just came here from Big ghost blog?
Hate to do the comparison, but I have to compare WTT to C4. Kanye & Jay-z are luxury rap: they aren’t for everyone. Lil’ Wayne is for the masses who don’t know necessarily care about complete quality. C4:WTT::The Mall:5th Avenue
Yup I didn’t know it was out that shit didn’t sound good when I went thru it on youtube
If soulja Boy can sell what he sells..Why not lil wayne. And soulja boy sucks ass. So hey. Lil kids can undertand the simple nonsense they are talking about, They have No Idea what half the stuff J and Kanye is talking about.
None of these albums will sell as much as Adele .. lol
you lot are dumb are you forgetting to sell a lot you have to distribute alot of CDs to universal, Wayne the only important artist under CM and gets all the attention you think slim and birdman aint got money to distribute for him behave.
are you also forgetting he entered the rock game increasing his fan base what black rapper do you see on rolling stones front cover back to back. did u not watch his mtv unplugged the audience was fully white hardly any blacks how can you question him selling 1mil wayne is smart. bet you haters didn’t even buy WTT and ur chatting shit about sales lol
GOOD POINT`