Tha carter iv how many sold

Within a four-minute song, he raps about so many disjointed ideas that are only connected because he makes them rhyme. Excuse me while I yawn. The threats are empty ones. Compare that to Watch the Throne , which sold less, but offers way more. The good and, more interestingly, the ugly are masterfully explored in new ways. So why did Wayne outsell them?

Well, promotion has a lot to do with it. Throne basically had none. Billboard Top Videos. Top Articles. Spotify to Acquire Audiobook Platform Findaway. By Keith Caulfield. Copied to clipboard. Click to copy. Artists Mentioned. The combined physical and digital sales would make for the biggest first week for a hip-hop album since Tha Carter III, which sold 1.

While he will undoubtedly have an impressive bow on Wednesday when the final figures are released by Nielsen SoundScan, it will still likely fall short of the year's biggest debut to date, Lady Gaga's Born This Way, which moved 1. Weezy, who closed the VMAs in memorable style, said that he wasn't sweating the fact that Carter IV leaked five days early.