Carter 4 Worldwide Sales

Lil Wayne's Carter 4 has been out for 8 weeks now, and it has sold 1,763,000 copies total worldwide. It would definitely go double platinum globally before the year runs out. It has sold sold a total of 1,586,000 copies nationally (in the U.S). Carter 4 would definitely bow out as the highest selling rap album of the year. The second highest selling rap album of the year so far is Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch The Throne album, which has sold 994,000 copies so far.




Looking at the numbers of his global sales, and analysing it with the national sales, it shows that he sold only 177,000 copies internationally so far. What does that mean? It means Lil Wayne has the bulk of his fans in America, and he doesn't have so much of a great influence outside the states. Most rappers almost double their national sales internationally. As of right now, Watch The Throne has sold 994,000 copies nationally, but has sold over 1,350,000 copies globally. Game's Documentary only sold 2,300,000 copies nationally, but it sold 5,000,000 copies worldwide.


This takes nothing away from Lil Wayne, i just wanted to bring this to people's notice because i thought it was an interesting finding that people overlook. But whatever, Wayne is still ontop of things in the rap game when it comes to commercial success. Ofcos, i can't forget Eminem. Eminem is the only one that can sell as much as or more than Wayne right now, but i can't conclude just yet...i think Drake's Take Care is going to be huge commercially. I think it might not sell up to a million copies first week, but it would have a higher staying power. I think it would sell around 750k copies first week, and then drop to like 350k the next week, and maintain that for a while.