In a report from Entertainment, the album is on its way to passing both of 2008's highest selling first week albums, and has the ability to give hip hop its first chart topper since Kanye West last album.
Pat Monaco the Executive VP of sales at Universal Motown Republic Group tried to explained the reason for what may be such astronomical sales in what has otherwise been another down year in record sales.
"The sales the first few hours were exceeding the rate that the Kanye album sold a year ago. Tha Carter III was one of these records that, because it was so highly anticipated, with the leaks and everything, it caused more people to go out at eight in the morning to buy the CD."
He went on to call Lil Waynes recording process unorthadoxed and cited it as another reason for what looks like it will a positive first weeks sales.
In other news…
"We were like putting a traditional set-up and street date on a guy that was just nontraditional. It changed dates, changed titles, changed songs, changed the people that were working on it. But sonically, the record bears out."
Tha Carter III officially hit the stores yesterday June 10th and featured the lead single Lollipop.
COMMENTS
I'll see it 2 believe it. I predict 500,000-600,000. But if he sells a million then congrats 2 Wayne.
cant hate on a nigga for making his money
believe it or not this shit is good for hiphop so why so many haters on this topic
Seriously How U Project That After Like 42 Hours....But We'll See. Wayne Got A Fan Base So Who Knows
well maybe i was wrong...still it hasnt been done yet but i wish the best for him...im not gonna buy it cause i didnt like the album...im not hatin but thats my opinion
I think it's crazy that they think they can "project" the 1st week sales one day after the album was released
... but if it really happens than that would be good for hip hop
... a lot better for Wayne, but still good for hip hop
lmao..hate to say I told you so..but I TOLD YALL HATIN ASS NIGGAS
its funny how yall still hatin..wayne could hit a million and yall would still have some hatin type shit to say
Wiz101 is still hatin..LMAO
LET THAT MAN GET HIS SHINE ON AND SO MUCH FOR HIS BUZZ BEING GONE LMAO
YOU ARE THE WORLDS BIGGEST HATER...
no one gives a fuck bout ur review fatty lmfao
Good for Wayne....it's a generation of young folks that love this guy. I personally think C2 is his best work to date.
Peace to my niggas out there.....I been away for a minute...slowly making my way back.
That s good for hiphop because a rap album has ben on top of the billboard charts since Kanye and rick ross.
honestly. i didnt care for wayne. But i actually listened to the entire album and its actually pretty hot. 4.5/5 album. coulve been better, but its a solid good album. good job wayne.
im not really a big fan of wayne unless im drunk.. no joke... but a friend of mine got this album and i listened to the whole thing and i thought it was pretty good... and big ups if he goes plat in his first week.. but remember eminem did it twice :D.... The Marshall Mathers LP sold 1.7 millie first week, so while good, not legendary (like Em) still good job
My brother brought this shit at 1 am. Worst than a video game nerd.
im pretty sure he will do a million the first week. as in lyrically he still will never top the carter I.
"850,000-950,000 albums in its first full week of sales"
I knew he wouldn't hit a million first week becuase of these days the record sales for any artist sucks...
aight now c3 drop
Wht wayne gone do
he still gon b puttin songs out back to back ever week now
carter 3 might b good for him
but for wayne fans its gon b a long ride
aight now c3 drop
Wht wayne gone do
he still gon b puttin songs out back to back ever week now
carter 3 might b good for him
but for wayne fans its gon b a long ride
REMEMBER THIS NIGGA SHIT GOT LEAK
COME ON NOW THIS SHIT DONT GET LEAK
ITS A FUCKIN WRAP
HE WOULD HAVE SURPASS ALL DEM NUMBERSSSSS
Nas
The Nigger Mixtape
Best album to be released this week.
*It was FREE.
Im not dissin the Carter 3. I probably wont hear it until Im driving around with some hottie or giving my niece a ride to school, but what Ive heard from Wayne so far on here was good material. Really I hope he sells a bunch of records and gets his bills paid up and beats his criminal charges because I want all my brothers to achieve.
IN RESPONSE TO RAISEUP COMMENT..
ARE FUCKIN STUPID CARTER i WASNT EVEN BETTA THAN CARTER ii BUT WAYNE MOST LYRICAL CD(NOT JUS ALBUM) DROUGHT 3 PERIOD
my thing is if he beat kanye that its crazy because just think how many people bought graduation to say fuck you 50 retire please would have just got a bootleg or just passed on it i didnt feel that way but was the vibe at the time i have to guess at least 200k
Carter 3 was gonna sell and is gonna sell regardless but that wasnt da issue...he promised a classic album and dat shyt is jus o.k......itz prolli his worst album 2 date n im ded tired of niggaz sayn dat nigga got mad cake....baby still got dis nigga publishing dickheads heont see none of that rap money...baby eatin off dis nigga 4 life...matta of fact if uont got Hov,diddy,or 50 money rappers shouldnt even be talkn bout money in dey songs no mor....n weezybmjr...wayne neva sold mor den 50 in his life nigga n curtis was trash
HES DOING BETTA THAN 950,000 WANT PROOF
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003816583
8 in the mornin?? Chill. If you went and copped that at 8 in the mornin after the leak ur a beast.
lol cosign but why do ppl wanna buy a shitty albumm?
lol sit down and listen the WHOLE album thry and dont just listen to first 10 secs and skip it... album is REAL as shit
the album isnt all that good. its mediocore the beats make the cd. but of course when you have dick riders your bound to sell a mil
I Aint Gon Say It Was Str8 Trash, But Based On How Long It Took To Put Out I Say Its A Disappointing Average Album...About 7/10 If You Give It 3 Listens
But Thats Just Me Everyone Has Their Own Ear 4 Music
Although D-Ridin Is Strickly Prohibited Lol
i think anything under a mill is a flop all the dickriding stans hype and advertisements for the album but good luck to wayne we need somebody to put money in hip hop but we will see who the real wayne fans are by next week
yeah.. the album is not as hot as it should be...
But I'm a fan so if he does well I wouldn't hate
dam ill never in life buy ANYONES cd at 8 in the morning! but if this tru shit i guess the wayne-iacs was right i never said wayne would flop tho but dam he doin it
Yea congrats to Wayne. If he doesn't know how to do anything else he knows how to grab that 12-18 demographic.
just cuz teh name "Lil' Wayne" on the album means its gunna sell rediculously amounts
all the lil middle school boys and girls that dont know shit bout hip hop all on his dick...im no hater but thats just the way it is
lollipop is whats making this album sell... all the commercial rap listeners got wet off that shit and still do which i dont understand why teh orig sucked teh remix was straight just cuz that song blew up everyone gunna buy the album cuz its lil wayne...just how it is
ask your self what you know bout hip hop?
are you sayin i should ask myself what i know about hip hop?
no hate but im sure i know a lot more than a lotta these people on these sites
dude no way u found 5000 people dumb enough to buy a bootlegged cd for five dollars when it was flooding the internet and coming out in a week
just dont sound right to me dude
werd dis nigga frontin like grillz
u killing hip hop with that bootleggin shit, pac beat a nigga azz for that same shit back in the day and you sit here openly talking bout how you eatin off of bootleggin a nigga shit like its kool, what kinda nigga is you.
you a really sad dude.....buy that shit....if you need to eat that bad...get a real fucking job!!!!
scoop gona be responsible for at least half of those sales
LMFAO!!!!!!!! Wow I Wouldn't Of Thought Different Ha Ha... Co-Sign... Ahh That Damn ScoopOfSugar.... Scream At Me,1..
^^^LOOK @ THAT ASS!!!...
-Cam=
LOOK MUTHAFUCKAS!!!...
=Cam=
big up to all my haters
Yo Cam you had me rollin, I was thinking the same shit too.
And Scoop is a fool for that comment.
only a fag would trash someone pointing out a fat ass like that...hater
=Cam=
only a fag would trash someone pointing out a fat ass like that...hater
=Cam=
Look here, I aint gonna lie I was one of them at best buy at 8 in the morning and i bought the first copy sold at that store. In my opinion everyone should be happy he dropped C-III, what else we had to look forward to?? Plies?, G-unit?? give me a fuckin break next up is Nas and Game, I got mad respect for both of them, but I dont think they gonna even top wayne.
what tha fukk u tlkin bout son??
lmao u say that like nobodys lookin forward to G-Units album
that shit gunna be hot as fukk
tha new shit they been spittin is real shit
50 got off his "fruity ass singin" mode n bankz has been fire. i guarantee g-unit will do better than wayne
what tha fukk u tlkin bout son??
lmao u say that like nobodys lookin forward to G-Units album
that shit gunna be hot as fukk
tha new shit they been spittin is real shit
50 got off his "fruity ass singin" mode n bankz has been fire. i guarantee g-unit will do better than wayne
Real talk, are we really surprised? I know I ain’t, listen B, Wayne was going to sell his lil trash CD regardless. But lets not get it twisted, that still don’t make this album the classic that the Stans were predicting. Nigga Kriss Kros sold millions or millions of records, now when Classic albums are mentioned I guarantee you that nobody that’s official brings theirs up. Same goes for Wayne, C III is a disaster FEMA can’t even help, and we all know ½ of dudes that copped that album, didn’t get that leak…so you know they mad, now the other ½ are just As like Wayne,…they all where their boxer short backwards, and that’s a fact.
Wayne can sell 100 million copies: he will still be a man kissing whore junky addict….is Wayne official? NOOOOO WE DON’T BELIEVE U, U NEED MORE PEOPLE
Kris Kross DID sell millions of records. So did Vanilla Ice.
All of Master P's artists sold too...
Master P brought his and his artists' albums to make sure they sold what he wanted them to sell. He's not the only person to do that.
Hmmm....
Oh yeah for dude that went to the store at 8am on a Tuesday... Please tell me u work a night job or something... 8am... that's fuckin' ridiculous. Motherfuckas don't even be trying to get up that early on Christmas LMFAO!
~Be Eazy!
oh now its not about him selling right? but just last week niggaz was talking bout the boi gonna flop cause his album flopped and how the fuck u compare him to vanilla ice or kris kross that wasnt even funny. I guess it was a joke though, cause nigga u a fucking joke. o.k. you dont believe he's the best rapper alive SO! C3 the shit i got my copy get yours HIP HOP sill alive.
^^^
You can keep your Best Buy copy of C3 money, I’m good. I got mine from a bodega store cuz I ain’t no hater, I’d give anybody the benefit of the doubt. The verdict: C 3 is trash, I did my review about it,…and for fuck sake I’m with Wiz here, who in their right mind is out at 8 am waiting for a damn CD,…Nigga I wouldn’t do it for a fucken PS3.
And I will go on record right now, Nas’s Mix Tape is By far hotter then this Trash called C3,…by far, it’s no competition. And when the Album drops,…you better be in line at 8am since that’s your style, I’ll pick up my copy at 7pm and bang out
i dont give a fuck what time a nigga get it as long as u get it. who cares if a nigga get up early, he probably a fan of course.
and maybe if you get up and do the same for your favorite artist its possible he'll eat like wayne and stay in the race of becoming the best rapper alive.
u make a good point .wat team do u play for
*smh*
I guess he's gonna keep saying he's the best alive if his album does 1 mill in its first week.
The album was mediocre.
Fuck Sales!!!!
I agree sales dont mean shit cuz of bootleggers. What counts is the music.
what about skillz. i guess niggas dont care about skillz anymore. wayne is average at best. but i hope he get money so he can pay that nigga thats suing him.
Damn give the nigga his props and stop the hate. The nigga album is solid, beats, concepts and lyrics. The nigga did his thang. He even changed his whole album outlook. I ain't no Wayne stan, but I love hip-hop music and I support it, if we don't support it it will die and this nigga Soulja Boy will be considered the best rapper alive. I ain't havin that, support hip-hop, go and get that Plies album too.
LAX comin soon niggas!!!!
Get that Nas album too....damn it's finna be a hot summer....without Cam....LOL!!!!
First two places I went to on Tuesday were sold out. I found a copy at Best Buy but had to wait in line behind at least 20 people, all of which were buying at least 1 copy of C3
I got the album on bootleg and I want my 2 dollars back. This is the worst anticipated album I have ever bought. I really thought that this was a mixtape I mean if I hear him say he's hot as a sona againg idk what im gonna do.On the song with Jay-z his lyrics are just garbage, I tried to like shoot me down but he has nothing to really say on the song. I dont car how many records he sale this album is horrible.
Wait til fourth quater hip-hop will be resureacted Shady returns most of all than you also got 50, jay, and dre dropping. fuck the summer its all about the fourth quarter
dogg you naming niggaz that dont have long in the game, why not support the youngest nigga in the game thats killing em. talking bout the album garbage you crazy like the last man, you dont listen to hip hop at all do you?
haha jayzs last album didnt even sell that much =/
but props to wayne i digg C3 and i went at eight in the mornin to get it =P
actually i bootlegged it i dont feel bad but ima go cop one now lol
i hope ur not sayin wayne better than jay, cause if you are you need to see a shrink or something homie.
That is another great look for Hip Hop! Get the other hip hop releases too...
Congrats to the mane Wayne...Good promotion, marketing and smash hit single
[R.I.P. to the Kentucky homie Static Major]
Not that i did yet but some of us get up that early and have to be to work that's probly why it got copped so early and ya'll are part of the reason no1 is selling your cheap and ignorant(not err1). Half ya'll talking haven't bought a cd prolly eva so i respect everyone's opinion but damn...
yea i bought this album yesturday poped it in and after the first song it pretty much went downhill. most of his mixtapes were better then this album id rather buy the drought 3 then the carter 3 if i had a second chance. #s 1 and 3 are the best songs on the cd the rest were mediocore at best