For some abstract reason, American record buyers simply can’t get enough of this. “Candy Shop,” the first single from 50 Cent’s The Massacre, too, featured an unsubtle, non-clever central metaphor that compared a sexual act to the consumption of lollipops. 1 song on Billboard’s Hot 100), is about. For the past week, Kanye’s been urging subscribers of his RSS feed to help Lil Wayne beat his own sales, which seems like a noble gesture, even when you consider that Carter III features several of Kanye’s beats, and its success will likely earn him millions of dollars.Įven if you’ve never heard it, you can probably guess what “Lollipop,” Carter III’s lead single (currently the No. The last time album with first-week sales nearing a million was Kanye’s Graduation, released last August (it sold 957,000), benefiting from the rapper-producer’s massive fan base and even-larger blog readership that does anything the man says. So how did Wayne manage to pull off this seemingly impossible feat? What makes this even more impressive is that Carter III leaked a week and a half before its street date, Wayne’s fans - now used to just downloading free Internet mix tapes - haven’t been to a record store in years, and worldwide music sales are the worst they’ve been in twenty years, according to the results of a new survey (we’re not sure why they had to conduct a survey to deduce this, but whatever). As some predicted it probably would, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III has sold more than a million copies in a single week (exact number: 1,005,545), the first album to do so since 50 Cent’s The Massacre in March 2005.
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