According to Billboard, Lil Wayne's forthcoming album, Tha Carter IV will sell over 850,000-900,000 by week's end on Sept. 4.
If "Carter IV" shifts 850,000 or more, it will instantly mark the biggest sales week for a hip-hop album (or one by a male artist), since his own "Carter III" bowed with 1.01 million on the June 28, 2008 chart according to Nielsen SoundScan.[/p]"Carter III" is one of only 17 albums to have sold a million or more in one week since SoundScan began tracking data in 1991.
"Carter IV" follows a pair of top-two sets for Wayne in 2010: "Rebirth" (No. 2) and "I Am Not a Human Being" (No. 1). They launched with 176,000 and 110,000 copies, respectively.