The Numbers Game: Weezy Does A Milli-ion
June 19, 2008 by B-Easy
Unless you been under a rock for the past week (Or just really dislike Hip-Hop), you know that it was projected that Lil’ Wayne would sell a million copies of Tha Carter III. Well, he did. Love him or hate him, you gotta give it him; in today’s Hip-Hop/Rap climate, selling a million copies of anything besides ringtones is crazy. I guess when you all were out buying Tha Carter III, some of you purchased Plies new album too because he also did good at the registers last week. We also got numbers for Tyga’s debut (Which most of you obviously didn’t care about). Let’s go…Oh yea, before we get into the numbers; Where the hell are Little Brother, Keak Da Sneak, Jean Grae, Speedknot Mobstaz, & JR Writer? Damn! Now let’s go…
#1 Lil’ Wayne/Tha Carter III (Last Week: NA) – 1,007,706; Total: NA (Platinum) [Debut]
#2 Plies/Definition Of Real (Last Week: NA) – 214,902; Total: NA [Debut]
#5 Usher/Here I Stand (Last Week: #3) – 100,807; Total: 689,332 (Gold) [3 Weeks]
#7 N.E.R.D/Seeing Sounds (Last Week: NA) – 80,075; Total: NA [Debut]
#13 Ashanti/Declaration (Last Week: #6) – 33,898; Total: 120,386 [2 Weeks]
#21 Mariah Carey/E=MC2 (Last Week: #13) – 27,117; Total: 1,024,861 (Platinum) [9 Weeks]
#23 Chris Brown/Exclusive (Last Week: #10) – 25,000; Total: 1,607,000 (Platinum) [32 Weeks]
#29 Bun B/II Trill (Last Week: #19) – 19,994; Total: 182,541 [4 Weeks]
#50 Rick Ross/Trilla (Last Week: #38) – 13,804; Total: 577,486 (Gold) [14 Weeks]
#112 Tyga/No Introduction (Last Week: NA) – 6,795; Total: NA [Debut]
With how record sales are today along with the fact he came out the same day as Lil’ Wayne I don’t think anybody thought Plies would do well. But this dude still sells 200,000+? You gotta respect that.
A million sales still don’t make it classic!
Classic or not, those are good numbers for him and Mr. Bussit. The ladies showed up big this week for they men.
A Million “It Ain’t A Classic” Posts Still Don’t Mean It Ain’t A Classic! Haha…
YO WAIT, Alicia Keys FINALLY stopped sellin?
haha Tyga only got 6k.
I am a lil disappointed Plies did so many, but glad Wayne sold some units.
Do you still think Tyga feels it was a good idea to drop on the same day as Wayne now?
congrats for lil wayne, didn’t think he would sell that much after his album leaked almost 2 weeks before. He coulda sold 2MILLION if it didnt leak!!
Told you Plies was gonna sell 200,000+ first week. Ridiculous, he outsold Bun B already. People really need to clean their ears out, and hear what they are listening to.
Plies Not That Bad. And He Does What He Has To Do To Reach A Greater Audience. Bun Didn’t.
Plies is a commercial rapper, simple as that. I can’t respect what he does, because about every rapper and their moms is doing it as well.
Wayne is crazy as fuck, and his songs are hilarous and off the wall; that is interesting.
Tyga makes me laugh for all the wrong reasons.