50 Cent Questions Lil Wayne's Carter 4 First Week Sales

50 Cent recently said he wasn't buying that Lil Wayne's Carter 4 actually sold 960,000 copies in its first week in stores. He believes there is something shady in that-


When we mentioned Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV almost selling a million albums in the first week, 50 let us know immediately that he wasn't buying the numbers. "To be honest with you, the Lil Wayne sales are a little suspect to me. Because it was trending 600,000 pieces that week. And they didn't do a million copies, it was like 900,000." In regards to Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, which sold a million copies in the first week back in 2008, 50 gives Lil Wayne his props: "Tha Carter III was definitely hot. He did that." 50 Cent goes on to say: "Tha Carter III commanded that energy, but the last one that just came out, those numbers are funny." (Global Grind)




Well, what can i say. Anybody would have been surprised at the numbers just like 50 is, because really, the buzz wasn't that crazy. But what sold the album was the brand that Wayne had built through the years. The name Carter is already a brand, so if he decides to drop Carter 5 next year, it will still sell as much...maybe not as much, but huge. 




I didn't know it was going to sell that much, until a couple of days after it dropped. The people that were being directed to my blog from google wanting to know what it would do in its first week were 8 times the people that checked on what Watch The Throne would do in its first week...at that point, i knew the album was going to sell like crazy. But even at that point, i still though it would do like 800k.