Official Tha Carter IV Discussion Thread V2

[bushido95]

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shit fuck it, i cant wait any longer


somebody can pm me carter IV

What about the DL section

[Kuzz]

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Mirror is a ladies song? You mad? Thats some deep reflection shit all on Wayne, nothing for the ladies there mate. Just a nice slower beat and bruno mars killin the hook.

[xwiley22]

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Eminem sold around 750 k and his album leaked 2 weeks in advance. I think weezy does over 750K. I think 800-875k

[ThaWeezy]

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mirrors is a ladies song, would have made a great radio single.

so special is good, i liked that

Deep song =/= Ladies song tbh.

[EcstaticPickles]

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If you don't like mirror... Well you don't deserve to listen to music.

[IceMan]

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Hits daily double is predicting 750,000 first week for Carter 4. Do NOT be surprised if it sells less or more however. So don't grip on to that number.

HITS Daily Double: News

holy fuck o_O

ya know these are "Eminem numbers"

[tha_chronic]

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holy fuck o_o

ya know these are "eminem numbers"

swag

[LilWayneheart]

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I think Wayne can sell 750k just from stores and 250k from itunes/amazon and that's a milli!

[XxOnLySBz4mExX]

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Are first week sales counted from the USA only, or is it worldwide?

[BAMBAM]

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Bored

Superstar albums and early leaks go hand in hand, as Lil Wayne knows too well. In 2007, songs from the rap titan's sixth LP, Tha Carter III, leaked months in advance, forcing him to retool the set for a 2008 release. Online habits haven't changed since, but when Wayne's manager, Cortez Bryant, spoke to Rolling Stone on August 24th, he had high hopes that Wayne's new album, Tha Carter IV, would break the streak.

"I think we're lucky this time." Bryant said of Wayne's ninth album, which was officially set to premiere on iTunes at midnight on August 29th after his closing performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, and everywhere else that same day. "We held it until the last moment we could, and we didn't send any songs or beats by e-mail - we used iChat, or a person had to get on a plane to share music…I'm knocking on wood before I get off the phone with you and it's all over the Internet."

Hours later, Tha Carter IV leaked. As fans sucked up bandwidth to download it, others wondered exactly what artists have to do to keep a hot album under wraps: Hotel studio sessions? Pelican briefcases? Biometric fingerprint detectors?

Pretty much. Three weeks before Carter IV dropped, Jay-Z and Kanye West reportedly used exactly that Mission Impossible-level of security to successfully thwart leaks of their joint album, Watch the Throne. According to a label source, the duo also footed the bill for pressing plants to stay open over the weekend, allowing them to print copies down to the wire. But the strategy also had most music retailers, who depend on marquee releases to boost their business, fuming: Best Buy carried physical copies of Throne exclusively for two weeks, leaving them in the dust. "Your decisions will be doing great damage to over 1,700 independent record stores," they wrote in an open letter to Jay-Z and West.

Wayne is no stranger to controversial rollouts: I Am Not a Human Being, released while the MC was still in prison, was a digital-only album for two weeks before CDs were let loose. Bryan "Birdman" Williams, CEO of Cash Money Records, says Wayne went the equal-opportunity route this time because those tactics "just!!everybody off. This is one of the biggest releases of the year, and we wanted to make sure that everybody got to play their part at the same time."

Cash Money delivered Carter IV to Universal about 10 days in advance, which Williams says was necessary to press the two million units being shipped in its first week. "The goal is to sell a million-plus copies," he explains. Although that's likely what led to Carter IV breaking free, Williams says he's actually OK with leaks, to a point. "I can deal with it for short period of time," he says. It's when you have a leak out for a long time that it's crazy."

http://beat-box.com/?url=http://www....leaks-20110826

[Wisheezy]

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Are first week sales counted from the USA only, or is it worldwide?

USA only

Damn that's so much higher than I thought tbh... Em sold 753,870first week and like 1.1m worldwide so we'll see how Wayne can do

[Mr. Swag]

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I'm more excited for the first-week sales than for the official release, tbh.