Lil Wayne Cracks 1 Million With 'Tha Carter III'

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Lil' Wayne Cracks A Millie
Published 6/18/2008 by Enigmatik (noreply@blogger.com) at Boo Goo Doo Boom
Well, well, well...look at what we have here. According to Billboard , Baby's baby sold a million copies of his long awaited, overlyhyped, but still nice album Tha Carter III . The first-week million sales mark is a feat that hasn't been attained by any rap artist since 50 Cent's The Massacre back in '05. Wayne quintupled his sales debut for Carter II and surpassed Kanye West's first week numbers for last year's Graduation . Right now, it's fair to say that critical reaction to the album is mixed. ...

"Tha Carter III" Breaks The Million Mark, Headline Writers Rush To Make "A Milli"-Related Puns [Charts]
Published 6/18/2008 by Maura Johnston at Idolator
... by Tha Carter II in 2005. Tha Carter III is the industry's first platinum-in-a-week album since March of that year, when 50 Cent's The Massacre moved 1.14 million copies in a truncated sales week. In "cognitive dissonance" news, today also welcomed an IFPI survey claiming that worldwide music sales have reached a 20-year low, which leads me to think that the majors are going to start their global hunt for Lil Wayne clones, oh, right about now. [Billboard] ...

Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” Goes Platinum After One Week
Published 6/18/2008 by Daniel Kreps at Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
... In an age where albums struggle to sell a million copies in their lifespan, Lil Wayne’s much-anticipated and ultra-hyped Tha Carter III has gone platinum in one week of release, becoming the first album since 2005 to top a million units in its debut week. 50 Cent’s The Massacre was the last album to do so back in March 2005. In 2006, no album sold more than 800,000 in a week, and only Kanye West’s Graduation managed to crack 900,000 last year. Tha Carter III fared much better than its predecessor, as the Tha Carter ...

How Did Lil Wayne Sell a Million Albums in a Week?
Published 6/18/2008 at Vulture
... probably guess what "Lollipop," Carter III's lead single (currently the No. 1 song on Billboard's Hot 100), is about. "Candy Shop," the first single from 50 Cent's The Massacre, too, featured an unsubtle, non-clever central metaphor that compared a sexual act to the consumption of lollipops. For some abstract reason, American record buyers simply can't get enough of this. If only Coldplay had realized that, there might still be hope for EMI. Lil Wayne Cracks 1 Million With 'Tha Carter III' [Billboard] Music sales fall to their ...

Lil Wayne Sells A Million
Published 6/18/2008 by Stereogum at Stereogum
... . As Billboard.com reports, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III is the first to break a million in first-week sales since 50 Cent's The Massacre in '05, and has sold over four times more than his previous best release-week showing ( Tha Carter II ). Congrats, Dwayne! "A Milli" is still not as much as a " ...

Lil Wayne Breaks Records
Published 6/18/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (JJ) at JJ's Dirt
... Billboard.com is reporting that rapper Lil Wayne has become the first artist since 50 Cent with The Massacre to sell more than 1 million copies of an album in a single week with The Carter III. ...