Lil Wayne Cracks 1 Million With 'Tha Carter III'

June 17, 2008, 7:30 PM ET
Geoff Mayfield, L.A.

With "Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne becomes the first artist since 50 Cent in 2005 to sell more than 1 million copies of an album in a single week, according to chart reports that will be issued tomorrow morning (June 18) by Nielsen SoundScan.

In its first week on the market, "Tha Carter III" (Cash Money/Universal) sells just over 1 million units. The last album to top that milestone was 50 Cent's "The Massacre" in March 2005.

No album in 2006 sold as many as 800,000 copies in a single frame, and the largest sales week since "The Massacre" belonged to Kanye West's "Graduation," which netted an opener of 957,000 copies last year when it hit stores on Sept. 11.

Lil Wayne first appeared on The Billboard 200 in 1999. His previous biggest sales week was a 238,000-unit start for "Tha Carter II" in 2005. That set entered The Billboard 200 at No. 2 while becoming his fourth No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

These are unbelievable numbers. Who would have thought this? 1 million copies fist week....Un-FUUCKIN-BELIEVABLE!!!

Go Lil' Wayne.

I'm not surprised by those figures at all. Get your Best Rap Album Grammy speech prepared.

It seems like the news that his opening would be huge may have pushed even more people to go get the album later in the week; they weren't estimating numbers nearly that high.

Congrats Lil' Wayne!

Official Billboard Results for Week of 06.09.08

1. Lil' Wayne, "Tha Carter III" (DEBUT)
2. Plies, "Definition of Real" (DEBUT)
3. "NOW That's What I Call Music!, Vol. 28"
4. Disturbed, "Indestructible"
5. Usher, "Here I Stand"
6. Journey, "Revelation"
7. N.E.R.D., "Seeing Sounds" (DEBUT)
8. Alanis Morissette, "Flavors of Entanglement" (DEBUT)
9. My Morning Jacket, "Evil Urges" (DEBUT)
10. Weezer, "Red Album"

So since Lil' Wayne debuted with about 1 million copies sold that puts him in a select group of artists.

Can anyone remember the other artist who opened with 1 million+ in sales?

A bunch of artists have debuted with over a million copies (just nobody lately)...

previous 1 million opening artists:
NSYNC
Usher
Britney Spears
50 Cent
Backstreet Boys

I'm sure I'm missing some.

Norah Jones' second album sold 1.1 million in its first week and Eminem's second album sold 1.3 million in its first week.

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I know N*SYNC hold the record for most albums sold. Didn't "No Strings Attached" sell over 2 million copies in its first week?

Britney Spears holds the record for Female Artists with 1.3 million copies sold of "Oops!...I Did It Again" in its first week.

Yeah, No Strings Attached sold 2.4 million copies in its first week.

1 * LIL WAYNE THA CARTER III 1,005,545 2,017 49753% 1,007,706
2 * PLIES DEFINITION OF REAL 214,532 358 59825% 214,901
3 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC VOL. 28-NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL 132,464 184,955 -28% 317,499
4 DISTURBED INDESTRUCTIBLE 101,835 252,777 -60% 355,359
5 USHER HERE I STAND 100,807 144,551 -30% 689,332
6 JOURNEY REVELATION 89,240 104,983 -15% 194,223
7 * N.E.R.D. SEEING SOUNDS 79,968 107 74636% 80,075
8 * MORISSETTE*ALANIS FLAVORS OF ENTANGLEMENT 70,374 197 35623% 70,576
9 * MY MORNING JACKET EVIL URGES 49,083 391 12453% 49,476
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11 3 DOORS DOWN 3 DOORS DOWN 38,043 45,079 -16% 301,113
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13 ASHANTI DECLARATION 33,898 86,278 -61% 120,386
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98 RACONTEURS CONSOLERS OF THE LONELY 8,046 7,334 10% 182,443
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100 RADIOHEAD IN RAINBOWS 7,892 8,905 -11% 551,345
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102 BAREILLES*SARA LITTLE VOICE 7,772 8,251 -6% 767,574
103 PARAMORE RIOT! 7,644 7,378 4% 921,287
104 MICHAELS*BRET ROCK MY WORLD 7,510 13,382 -44% 20,920
105 THREE DAYS GRACE ONE-X 7,500 7,284 3% 1,247,790
106 HANNAH MONTANA 2: MEET MILEY C SOUNDTRACK 7,482 7,654 -2% 3,071,918
107 * COLTRANE*JOHN OPUS 7,441 27 27459% 7,468
108 LED ZEPPELIN MOTHERSHIP 7,297 7,396 -1% 909,396
109 * JOHN*ELTON ROCKET MAN-NUMBER 1'S 7,226 2,538 185% 415,718
110 BUCKCHERRY 15 6,867 6,708 2% 1,229,552
111 MANN*AIMEE SMILERS 6,826 15,566 -56% 22,431
112 * TYGA NO INTRODUCTIOIN 6,787 8 84738% 6,795
113 OPETH WATERSHED 6,766 19,655 -66% 26,594
114 * CELTIC THUNDER CELTIC THUNDER THE SHOW 6,696 4,397 52% 69,899
115 FLEET FOXES FLEET FOXES 6,672 7,993 -17% 14,699
116 ROSSDALE*GAVIN WANDERLUST 6,638 15,364 -57% 22,016
117 PANIC AT THE DISCO PRETTY ODD 6,499 6,488 0% 295,226
118 MANA ARDE EL CIELO 6,350 5,894 8% 69,999
119 MCCARTNEY*JESSE DEPARTURE 6,342 7,623 -17% 56,695
120 * ATKINS*RODNEY IF YOU'RE GOING THROUGH HELL 6,311 4,664 35% 1,328,461
121 BLIGE*MARY J. GROWING PAINS 6,255 6,692 -7% 1,504,487
122 10 YEARS DIVISION 6,204 7,174 -14% 61,153
123 * CASTING CROWNS ALTAR & THE DOOR 6,187 4,728 31% 318,352
124 RIHANNA GOOD GIRL GONE BAD 6,149 6,933 -11% 1,244,158
125 MCGRAW*TIM GREATEST HITS 1 & 2 6,137 6,946 -12% 101,659
126 VAMPIRE WEEKEND VAMPIRE WEEKEND 6,122 5,659 8% 240,212
127 TING TINGS WE STARTED NOTHING 6,110 8,551 -29% 21,352
128 TRIBBETT*TYE STAND OUT 6,104 5,849 4% 58,867
129 PORTISHEAD THIRD 6,050 6,737 -10% 122,577
130 SWEAT*KEITH JUST ME 6,047 7,637 -21% 74,571
131 * SAVING ABEL SAVING ABEL 5,999 5,145 17% 55,745
132 * COUNTING CROWS SATURDAY NIGHTS & SUNDAY MORNI 5,821 4,878 19% 255,075
133 DANITY KANE WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE 5,761 5,715 1% 500,961
134 FLO RIDA MAIL ON SUNDAY 5,736 6,512 -12% 261,391
135 ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (DLX) SOUNDTRACK 5,730 5,392 6% 525,454
136 ROOTS RISING DOWN 5,556 5,813 -4% 116,297
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138 * WEST*KANYE GRADUATION 5,496 4,722 16% 2,124,047
139 DEF LEPPARD SONGS FROM THE SPARKLE LOUNGE 5,471 5,571 -2% 111,798
140 * ESTELLE SHINE 5,395 4,610 17% 51,200
141 * MCGRAW*TIM LET IT GO 5,371 4,685 15% 1,407,908
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148 GNARLS BARKLEY ODD COUPLE 5,051 5,207 -3% 181,601
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185 CROW*SHERYL DETOURS 4,076 3,597 13% 333,463
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190 VARIOUS NOW 26 3,966 4,174 -5% 1,668,281
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COLDPLAY’S IN TUNE FOR #1

Capitol Group Shatters iTunes Records, as Disney’s Camp Rock, Katy Perry, Judas Priest Also Bow

June 18, 2008

Somewhere in London, EMI’s Guy Hands is breathing a sigh of relief.
That’s because Capitol Music Group’s Coldplay will debut at #1 on the HITS Album Sales chart next week with their latest, Viva La Vida, thanks to record-breaking sales at iTunes, with a total that should be between 650-700k, and possibly even higher.

The band’s one-day download total at the House that Jobs Built soared past Jack Johnson’s previous one-week high of 140k. Insiders are saying the final number should shatter pre-release predictions of 200k.

Next up is Disney’s Camp Rock, featuring the Jonas Brothers, which is on target for 200k, but could do better than that based on multiple airings of the show this weekend on Disney Channel (Friday), ABC (Saturday) and ABC Family (Sunday).

Capitol’s Katy Perry is up next, as the “I Kissed a Girl” It Girl is showing some real strength with between 45-50k in first-week sales for her new, Perez Hilton-endorsed album, One of the Boys.

We’re predicting Epic’s Judas Priest concept album about soothsayer Nostradamus will sell around 50k its first week.

Columbia's SoCal original punks Offspring return with their first new studio album in five years (since 2003's Splinter), Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, which looks to also be in the 50k range.

Rihanna’s Island/IDJ repackage Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded, featuring three new tracks and a DVD of a live performance in Manchester, U.K., appears headed for 50k in first-week sales. The new tracks include the current hit single, “Take a Bow,” written by Ne-Yo and produced by Stargate.

The market was up 23% vs. last week, down 3% vs. same week last year and now down 11% year to date.

Excuse us while we party like it’s 1999.

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Katy Perry is only on track to sell 45-50k of her album in the first week? Even Rihanna's album rerelease is supposed to do better. How is that possible when she's got a huge hit single and all that buzz? Talk about crashing upon impact.

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Originally posted by booyahboy:
Katy Perry is only on track to sell 45-50k of her album in the first week? Even Rihanna's album rerelease is supposed to do better. How is that possible when she's got a huge hit single and all that buzz? Talk about crashing upon impact.

Probably because of Katy being an attention seeking whore (i mean, really those lyrics explain how whorish she is) and the song not having any substance and the album being trashed from the get go, JMO.

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Originally posted by booyahboy:
Katy Perry is only on track to sell 45-50k of her album in the first week? Even Rihanna's album rerelease is supposed to do better. How is that possible when she's got a huge hit single and all that buzz? Talk about crashing upon impact.

Ummm, her label didn't ship a big amount to retail outlets.

The disc was sold out in various store locations due to low stock. She's a new artist, she'll build momentum and album sales as the year goes by. "I Kissed A Girl" just took off at radio the past couple weeks. It takes time to build a good fanbase than just in a couple weeks you know.

I really hate reading ignorant uneducated comments.

I'm not her biggest fan but I do like her song. I still haven't listened to the rest of the album yet.

Regardless, her label shipped a low amount out. They didn't expect her to sell 200k or 300k..lol They are gonna build up her music career slow and hope sales pick up and are consistent week by week once radio airplay of "I Kissed A Girl" continues to increase.

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Originally posted by torontophenom:

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Originally posted by booyahboy:
Katy Perry is only on track to sell 45-50k of her album in the first week? Even Rihanna's album rerelease is supposed to do better. How is that possible when she's got a huge hit single and all that buzz? Talk about crashing upon impact.

Ummm, her label didn't ship a big amount to retail outlets.

The disc was sold out in various store locations due to low stock. She's a new artist, she'll build momentum and album sales as the year goes by. "I Kissed A Girl" just took off at radio the past couple weeks. It takes time to build a good fanbase than just in a couple weeks you know.

Well, OK then... But reputation counts for a lot. And it's not like everyone is going to know what you just told me when they see that she wasn't huge from the get-go. Maybe it'll start people thinking that she's not so cool after all and there'll be a backlash on her. Who knows? But shipping a small number of her albums was just a weird thing to do.

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Originally posted by booyahboy:

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Originally posted by torontophenom:

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Originally posted by booyahboy:
Katy Perry is only on track to sell 45-50k of her album in the first week? Even Rihanna's album rerelease is supposed to do better. How is that possible when she's got a huge hit single and all that buzz? Talk about crashing upon impact.

Ummm, her label didn't ship a big amount to retail outlets.

The disc was sold out in various store locations due to low stock. She's a new artist, she'll build momentum and album sales as the year goes by. "I Kissed A Girl" just took off at radio the past couple weeks. It takes time to build a good fanbase than just in a couple weeks you know.

Well, OK then... But reputation counts for a lot. And it's not like everyone is going to know what you just told me when they see that she wasn't huge from the get-go. Maybe it'll start people thinking that she's not so cool after all and there'll be a backlash on her. Who knows? But shipping a small number of her albums was just a weird thing to do.

Why would the label waste their time with the packaging and wages invested in labour time to make sure they meet the deadline to ship out this over stock of CD's to retail outlets that won't sell in that range first week? Logistics 101!!!!!! Labels are on a tight budget and time constraints these days so they purposely estimate first week sales of all their artists. Katy Perry is a brand new artist, her single just took off and the album was released 2 weeks after. I think her first week projections would be much more higher if "I Kissed A Girl" had been in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks for example, than a couple, before the albums release.

Basically you got to view the situation in the labels eyes. They're just being financially responsible.

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