“Tha Carter III”, Lil Wayne’s sixth studio album, bowed at #1 on the Billboard 200 after selling over a million copies in the US on its first week of release. The album’s weekly sales figure is the highest since 50 Cent‘s second effort “The Massacre” in March 2005.
The “Lollipop” rapper’s biggest sales week was 238,000 back in 2005 for the release of “Tha Carter II” which entered at #2 on the Billboard 200. “Tha Carter III” is Lil Wayne’s first #1 on the Billboard 200 and it is propelled by the smash single “Lollipop” featuring Static Major.
Other notable debuts on the Billboard 200 include the following:
Plies, “Definition Of Real” at #2
N*E*R*D, “Seeing Sounds” at #7
Alanis Morissette, “Flavors Of Entanglement” at #8
Evil Urges, “My Morning Jacket” at #9
Montgomery Gentry, “Back When I Knew It All” at #20
Emmylou Harris, “All I Intended To Be” at #22
Jakob Dylan, “Seeing Things” at #24
iCarly Soundtrack at #28
DJ Skribble, “Total Club Hits” at 30
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