Tha Carter IV is off to a fast start courtesy of both a hot single and an eve-of-release performance by Wayne on the highly rated MTV Video Music Awards telecast (Aug. STORY: Lil’ Wayne’s ‘Tha Carter IV’: What the Critics are Saying iTunes Store’s single-week album sales record, with around 345,000 sold via iTunes. However, while SoundScan does not disclose retailer-specific figures, sources say Carter easily broke the U.S. That marks the second-largest digital sales week of all time for an album again, behind Born This Way, with 662,000 downloads. Speaking of downloads, Carter IV shifted 362,000 digital copies in its first week. STORY: Lil’ Wayne on ‘Tha Carter IV’: ‘I’m Glad’ it Leaked It’s estimated that AmazonMP3 sold upwards of 440,000 downloads of its 99-cent Born This Way album. Carter IV managed to sell nearly a million without such tactics. Of course, Gaga’s first week was bolstered by two days’ worth of 99-cent sale pricing from AmazonMP3’s store.
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