It has been announced that Lil Wayne’s new CD has sold a spectacular 1 million copies its first week. “Tha Carter III” is easily the best selling first week of the year, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures. Lil Wayne is regarded as one of rap’s most gifted performers but he’s never had a multiplatinum album. His last two albums, “Tha Carter” and “Tha Carter II,” sold 1.1 million and 1.4 million copies, respectively. “Tha Carter III” was anticipated as the CD that would send the New Orleans rapper into superstardom.
Ron Williams who is the co-founder of Lil Wayne’s record label, Cash Money Records said that “I’ve been saying a million all along, and I’ve been telling people, and they’ve been looking at me crazy. He worked hard. He just came with something different. He let his skills show on a lot of mixtapes. He’s featured on a lot of people’s records,” Williams said. “It just made people anticipate his record more than ever.”
It’s said that the expectations for “Tha Carter III” were high, and it delivered selling 423,000 copies in its first day of release. It has achieved blockbuster numbers despite being heavily bootlegged and leaked on the Internet; past leaks of material for the CD caused parent label Universal Motown to delay its release several times.
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