The Official Lil Wayne Tha Carter 4 Album Discussion Thread!!

[JDSTAYWITIT]

3x Plat....

Really?? That's suprising Figured it would be more.... Makes me wonder how much these first week sales even matter

 

[thesynthesis]

what wayne hs shown u is u gotta spend 24/7 in the studio no days off....hard work ethic

thats why he outselling his rivals, nigga has no days off, if he aint workin on his album, he is doin collabs with someone or another,

if u want to take anything from wayne, his work ethic shud be it

thats why juelz santana is a bum ass rapper now and weezy on top of the world, at one point they were on the same level

 

[Focal Point]

Nigga even if its a bullshit album its a hip hop album that definitely has some great features on it so if anything its exposing those artists and helping hip hop

How much exposure does Nas or Busta really need???

 

[Valentinez A. Kaiser]

Apparently this is only the 18th album to sell a million in a week since SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991.

Lady Gaga was 17th earlier this year, anybody know of the others???

Carter 3..............

The Bodyguard Soundtrack sold 1,061,000 in its 6th week making it the first album to sell over a million in a week (since SoundScan began tracking)

Garth Brooks "Double Live" sold 1,085,000 in a week

Backstreet Boys "Millenium" sold 1,134,000 in a week

'N Sync "No Strings Attached" sold over 2.4 million in a week (first time in SoundScan era that any album sold > 2 million in a week. Also first album in history to sell a million in a day)

Britney Spears "Oops!...I Did It Again" sold 1,319,193 in a week

Eminem "The Marshall Mathers LP" sold 1.76 million in a week

Backstreet Boys "Black & Blue" sold 1.6 million in a week (first group in Soundscan history to have million-plus first-week sales with back-to-back albums)

'N Sync "Celebrity" sold 1,879,955 in a week (making it the second best in SoundScan history, only behind 'N Sync's previous album, No Strings Attached)

Eminem "The Eminem Show" sold 1,322,000 in a week

50 Cent "The Massacre" sold 1.14 million in a week

Norah Jones "Feels Like Home" sold 1,000,000 in a week

Usher "Confessions" sold nearly 1.096 million in a week (highest-ever first week sales by an R&B artist)

Lil Wayne "Tha Carter III" sold 1,005,545 in a week

Taylor Swift "Speak Now" sold 1,047,000 in a week

Lady Gaga "Born This Way" sold 1,108,000 in a week

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There's two albums missing....anyone know which ones?

 

[onepunch]

Nigga even if its a bullshit album its a hip hop album that definitely has some great features on it so if anything its exposing those artists and helping hip hop

please explain...how is abullshit album helping HIP HOP?

 

[dabullsss]

this is an amazing accomplishment. BUT that nigga 50 had to deal with a 2 week leak of the Massacre, pushed up the release date to a Thursday and sold 1.4 milli in FOUR days!!!! i still think that was the craziest 1st week in HipHop history

 

[nujerz84]

this is an amazing accomplishment. BUT that nigga 50 had to deal with a 2 week leak of the Massacre, pushed up the release date to a Thursday and sold 1.4 milli in FOUR days!!!! i still think that was the craziest 1st week in HipHop history

shootout @ Hot 97, Press conference with Game, and Jada released his response to Piggy Bank...

 

[KeepinItHundred]

this is an amazing accomplishment. BUT that nigga 50 had to deal with a 2 week leak of the Massacre, pushed up the release date to a Thursday and sold 1.4 milli in FOUR days!!!! i still think that was the craziest 1st week in HipHop history

that was 6 years ago when bootlegging wasn't as big and he had em and dre for help.

 

[H-Rap 180]

how is it a good look.....all it proves is that you can make a bullshit album and sell.....we'll have more cats dumbing down their lyrics and freestyling in the booth rambling on bout a bunch of nothing and calling it HIP HOP.....if thiscat would have went double aluminum...that would have been a good look for HIp HOP.....ROCK THE BELLS TOUR was a good look for HIP HOP....RAKIM taking a shit this morning was more of a good look for HIP HOP instead of lil wayne selling 750k first week...and BABY prolly bought 300k by himself...smh

Did you read my entire post or did you stop short before the part were I said SALES WISE??

Sales wise a HipHop album sold a Millie without putting 3 white boys on it like 50-Cents "Curtis", or some straight up pop ish like B.O.B

As far as quality and purity is concerned I'm not even trippin because LiL Wayne is a marketing genius and he knows how to cater to the buying demographic and the consumers who buy the majority of rap albums......it's basic Marketing 101.

I salute the bravery but cringe at the degeneracy.

 

[Valentinez A. Kaiser]

Really?? That's suprising Figured it would be more.... Makes me wonder how much these first week sales even matter

First week sales don't matter in all honesty. If you look at the biggest selling albums of all time, I doubt any had 800,000 plus sales in its first week. Rather what they do have is consistent sale patterns over weeks, months and years. Look at Adele "21" for a current example. I'm not sure how much she's sold but she's spent 27 weeks on the Billboard 200 charts, peaked numerous of times to number 1 and has never fallen further than #4 (which she only did once).

 

[MrJR]

JR was here on this historic day

 

[garv]

First week sales don't matter in all honesty. If you look at the biggest selling albums of all time, I doubt any had 800,000 plus sales in its first week. Rather what they do have is consistent sale patterns over weeks, months and years. Look at Adele "21" for a current example. I'm not sure how much she's sold but she's spent 27 weeks on the Billboard 200 charts, peaked numerous of times to number 1 and has never fallen further than #4 (which she only did once).

There is more than one way to skin a cat.

 

[onepunch]

Did you read my entire post or did you stop short before the part were I said SALES WISE??

Sales wise a HipHop album sold a Millie without putting 3 white boys on it like 50-Cents "Curtis", or some straight up pop ish like B.O.B

As far as quality and purity is concerned I'm not even trippin because LiL Wayne is a marketing genius and he knows how to cater to the buying demographic and the consumers who buy the majority of rap albums......it's basic Marketing 101.

I salute the bravery but cringe at the degeneracy.

wayne not putting a hite boy on the album and still selling doesn't impress me.....i agree he a marketing genious...but i don't see how this album helped HIP HOP in any way....lets check his record sales after the hype wore off...

 

[JDSTAYWITIT]

First week sales don't matter in all honesty. If you look at the biggest selling albums of all time, I doubt any had 800,000 plus sales in its first week. Rather what they do have is consistent sale patterns over weeks, months and years. Look at Adele "21" for a current example. I'm not sure how much she's sold but she's spent 27 weeks on the Billboard 200 charts, peaked numerous of times to number 1 and has never fallen further than #4 (which she only did once).

That's my point .... It just kills me when prople want to crown someone or shit on someone else based on first week sales when in all reality that shit has no bearing on the quality of that work or artist as a whole.... The thing is how does ur album come out the gate sell a milli in a week! then turn around and two years later only do 3mill?? Total.....seems small in comparison to those other albums on the mill in a week list.... Something about that progression dosent make sense .... Either the album was trash and didn't have staying power to consistently sell and or those first week numbers were inflated by someone for promotional purposes ...... And this aint no hate on weezy shout out to him ... But shit don't add up and we pay way too much attention to sales in hiphop culture...

 

[pinpoint]

sorry for the million that brought that bullshit album... a million refunds.....lol

 

[Jeezyfan4ever]

the album sold 1 millie first week because Nas was on the album.

NAS keeps winning!

This.....................................

 

[JDSTAYWITIT]

wayne not putting a hite boy on the album and still selling doesn't impress me.....i agree he a marketing genious...but i don't see how this album helped HIP HOP in any way....lets check his record sales after the hype wore off...

Wayne don't need a white boy on the album when he dressing and mimicking one himself

 

[Kame]

Umm what? Explain sir

if its true...... who knows yet

Same shit happened to Ye where he was off by like 40000 or something like that

 

[Smo-King Locs]

jr was here on this historic day

lol........

 

[PanchoYoSancho]

3x Plat....

It has sold like 3.5 mil in the U.S.

Really?? That's suprising Figured it would be more.... Makes me wonder how much these first week sales even matter

Opening week sales are on par with what they were 10 years ago. It's not until the leak goes into overdrive, which usually isnt until after it's released, that the sales sink.