Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV Sets New iTunes Single Week Sales Record

It was just three weeks ago that Jay-Z and Kanye West set a new record for the highest one week sales of an album ever at iTunes.

Now Lil Wayne has come along and in just the first four days of sales for Tha Carter IV he has smashed that record. He sold over 300,000 copies in just those first four days which easily outpaces the 290,000 record.

Early prognostications for total first week sales of Tha Carter IVwere 700,000. Now the best guesses are over 850,000 and some as high as 950,000.

If those projections are accurate that means the album will have the biggest first week sales of any hip hop album or album by a male solo artist since Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III sold just over one million copies in its first week of release back in 2008.

Lil Wayne is also looking very strong on the iTunes single sales chart with four tracks from Tha Carter IV inside the top 30 and eight tracks from the album in the overall top 100.

The album contains his highest charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 since 2008. "How To Love" and "She Will" are his first top 5 hits since "Lollipop" went all the way to #1.


Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV Sets New iTunes Sales Record