Lil Wayne almost sells a million
With a performance on the MTV Video Music Awards giving him an eve of album release bump, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV performed strongly, taking the top spot on the Billboard charts with nearly a million units movedin its first week of release. That makes TC IV - which was compared to Picasso's Guernica in the pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday - the second biggest first-week seller of the year, behind Lady Gaga's Born This Way - which topped 1.1 million thanks in part to a 99 cents-on-Amazon sales promotion.
Significantly, it's also more than twice as many as sold by the two-headed force of nature of Kanye West and Jay-Z known as Watch The Throne. That rap attack sold only 436,000 copies in its initial week, though that number might have been limited because the album was available digitally-only for the first five days of release. Got all that? Good. It's not easy to make sense of the music business these days. And give Wayne extra credit for setting an iTunes record by selling over 348,000 copies in Apple store. "How To Love" is here. "A Milli," from Tha Carter III, is below.
Previously: Wye Oak at the U.S. Open and the Academy of Music Follow In The Mix on Twitter here
