NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cash Money / Universal Republic Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum recording artist Lil Wayne’s tenth studio album THA CARTER IV is #1 on Neilsen Soundscan Chart, as the album reaches the top spot with first week sales of 964,000. Lil Wayne also sold nearly 1 million standalone tracks digitally his first week of release. Further illuminating the album's power as a whole, the deluxe edition of THA CARTER IV accounted for 95 percent of digital sales and over 70 percent of physical sales.
Lil Wayne continued to shatter records this week too. He is now the best selling artist on iTunes with first week sales of 348,000 units sold in only four days. Lil Wayne breaks a record set only two weeks before by Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch The Throne, a title held previously by Coldplay.
In an industry first, THA CARTER IV became available on iTunes after Lil Wayne’s monumental performance on the MTV Video Music Awards on August 28th. The album immediately soared to #1 on iTunes, dethroning Jay-Z, Kanye West and Adele and surpassing new releases from Red Hot Chili Peppers and David Guetta.
The momentum surrounding THA CARTER IV has escalated as Lil Wayne’s second single “How To Love” holds the #1 position on Mediabase and BDS Urban charts. The third single from the album, “She Will,” featuring Drake debuted at #1 on the iTunes Single Chart the first day it was available for download and reached #1 on both iTunes Main and Hip-Hop/Rap charts.
THE CARTER IV is a continuum of Lil Wayne’s dominance, having sold nearly as many albums as Tha Carter III in a considerably weaker physical market and less retail outlets. To date, Lil Wayne has sold more than 10 million records in a single decade, and that number is rising daily.
The New Orleans native who hails from the streets of Hollygrove released his first tracks at age 12 after he was introduced to Cash Money CEOs Ronald “Slim” Williams and Bryan “Birdman” Williams. Lil Wayne released the first installment of Tha Carter series in 2004, which added to his impressive collection of platinum plaques, followed by Tha Carter II in 2006, which cemented his status as one of the best MCs in the hip hop game. But it was 2008’s critically acclaimed Tha Carter III that gave Lil Wayne his iconic stature in popular music, paving the way for his advisory role to grow as CEO of Young Money Records. The album also made him a four-time Grammy Award winner, cementing his place in history as a true musical legend.
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About Cash Money Records
Emerged as a regional hip-hop force in the mid-‘90s, Cash Money excelled throughout the next decade as one of hip-hop's most successful entrepreneurial urban empires. The influential label reigned as one of the top selling imprints again in 2008-2009 as the home base and strategic arsenal for best selling artist of the year - Lil Wayne. Originally forged in the Magnolia housing projects of New Orleans where brothers' and Cash Money founders/Co-CEOs Bryan Williams and Ronald 'Slim' Williams first earned their street reps, the multi-platform imprint (which includes hip-hop superstar Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment) has sold nearly 60 million albums worldwide. One of hip-hop’s most enduring global street brands, Cash Money/Young Money has been responsible for more than a dozen gold/platinum artists; more than two dozen gold and/or platinum records, rolling out award winning albums, videos, and digital content by a diverse range of artists including Juvenile, B.G., Turk, Hot Boys, Big Tymers (featuring, among others, Bryan “Birdman” Williams himself,) Jay Sean, Kevin Rudolf. Nicki Minaj, Drake and much-heralded franchise star Lil Wayne.
About Universal Republic Records
A division of Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company, Universal Republic is home to a diverse array of superstar artists such as Enrique Iglesias, Florence + the Machine, 3 Doors Down, Colbie Caillat, Eddie Vedder, Godsmack, Hinder, Owl City, The Rolling Stones, The Voice (Javier Colon, Dia Frampton), among many others.
It is also comprised of innovative imprints and digital business ventures such as Republic Nashville Records (The Band Perry), and is in partnerships with Aware Records (Mat Kearney), Big Machine(Taylor Swift), Brushfire(Jack Johnson, G Love), Cash Money(Lil Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj) Lava Records(Jesse J, Black Veil Brides), SRC(Akon, Melanie Fiona, Shontelle), Tuff Gong(Damien Marley, Stephen Marley) among others.
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