Birdman Speaks On Tha Carter IV Sales
September 7, 2011 @ 11:55 AM EDT
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Birdman’s got 965,342 reasons to smile. His label’s latest release, Tha Carter IV, clocked nearly a million copies in seven days. The Cash Money Records CEO called Shade 45’s Sway In The Morning to speak on the sales, rumors, and Drake’s Take Care.
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The kids love “Tiger Jeggings”. Hahaha.
Lol @ that pic
How many you buy birdman? My 15 year old neice and my girls friend brought this sad album so u know why it sells. Congratulations Wayne on the numbers not ur album.
its a shame for hiphop that this album sold so much… now people think lil wayne the greatest rapper from this decade…
Hip Hop moves forward. I think more people should be less mad at this and more happy that hip hop is STILL selling records and moving culture.
Granted this isn’t the era of the 90’s “X-Clan’s” and music with a message days….but this just a new chapter in hip hop and Lil Wayne and his releases (like it or not) are good for hip hop in that they carry on tradition of hip hop being the cornerstone of pop culture.
Tight pants or not.
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LOL at the pic. Birdman looks like a straight clown, fuck how much money you got when you got no dignity.
yalll nigggas in denial hahahaha! fuck it birdman bought half he still sold more then watch the throne…wayne got the throne…not jay not kanye WAYNE
i understand its cool to hate popular artist…but sorry mainstream wins again…jay aint no goat…nigga has never seen his success…wayne em and kanye are on different fields then jay z…people need to realize that…that nigga aint no goat
birdman..look like a complete fool..full of greed..in that pic..smh
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been..cashing $300 checks daily… http://goo.gl/dgjX9 after seein how u can make money online…doing shit u already do..lol
At least hip-hop is dominating the charts so you can say we’re all winning.
Did anybody feel it was necessary to bring up JayZ name?______________________
Yeah me neither
2 different albums.
A different group can relate to the Throne and a different group can relate to Carter
@says btw
Beatrice needs to stop fronting, we know what went down….
@…. lol you drop out of elementary school math? Tell me what half of 965,342 is and tell me if that’s more than 600k LOL dumb fuck.
Face it, Birdman bought most of the copies, he’s a shrewd business man who knows that by the very act of getting an album to number 1 you can manipulate the stupid masses into actually listening to a fallen off wayne.
Ugly fuck lol. Gongratz with the great sells wayne, but the album is still shit
This hating is not healthy for you clowns. Show me Birdman’s reciept for 600,000 albums….oh you don’t have it? Then shut ya ignorant hoe ass up. Niggas don’t know SHIT
THIS NIGGA JUST SAID BABY BOUGHT MOST OF THE ALBUMS TO GET IT TO #1 …. NIGGA IT WAS #1 BY ABOUT 600K ALBUMS
@ cheddar bob, BITCH
You cannot fool the soundscan computers like was done in the 90’s. Years ago we would have the street teams go around with the company credit cards and buy up a couple of hundred units at tower records and such but that practice at major labels has long since been stopped when file sharing started eating profits. The practice of half price, giveaways, etc. are the exact same tactic for every single album released in this country.
You may not like it but wayne is popular and generates.
Lmao all the stans screamed 1mill. Fuck that shit this ain’t 2008 told y’all that nigga wouldn’t Do a mill
BUT, those are impressive numbers regardless. Just not a Millie. lmao. Congrats though. Album was pretty good.
BUT, Jay > Wayne until he gets 11 platinum plauqes. Wayne still got a ways to go. Jays only competition is THE BEATLES fuck outta here saying Wayne > Jay in sales. In terms of sales, our of all the top selling rap artist Wayne is on the outskirts. No diamond plaques yet either, then he’d be on Ems level.
Better luck next year!
@S1W32 Bull shit. This nigga bought mad albums and EVERYONE knows it.
If numbers dictate the throne, I would like congratulate MC Hammer and Nelly for their reign with the crown.
So i’ma end this lecture and I betcha
Those who kick dirt and do time I’m gonna get cha
Cause I be kickin the real
While they be losin the race tryin to chase mass appeal.
as someone who’s not a fan of Wayne generally speaking and a big fan of Kanye, Carter IV > Watch the Throne, hands down.
@ NOVA
a lot of people are PISSED OFF!!! FUCK is wrong with you!!
sad day in hip hop
This whole thing is mind boggling
WTT was weak
C4 was weak
RED (from track 1 to 12) is better than both these albums. the rest is wack
September 27 we’re getting a classic with Cole World!
@Nova Great statement! I don’t personally care for Carter IV…but that’s the bigger picture.
GOD FORGIVES I DONT
@word my point exactly…. Elvis left the buildin, now im on the beatles ass
Well, first off, I am no big Lil’ Wayne fan, but, nevertheless, congrats to him. Now, let’s see if he can outsell Juvenile’s 400 Degreez, which is the best selling album from Cash Money Records!
i dont care what the numbers are.. to me this album aint on the level of the red album the ricky song alone bodies the whole of carter 4.
@ EZDINERO
no its not a good statement. it means people will have to dumb down there product and there art to sell out and appeal a certain way. its fukked up bullsh1t like C4 is selling this much that ruins the integrity of hip hop music.
sh1t load of people are pissed at this. quality>>>>>>>>quantity.
Well i bought my copy 2day and its a good listen. didnt know Dre would be on the album though,kinda surprise me and Tech.
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worst rapper alive sold 900k
This gay nigga bought 60%
R.I.P HIPHOP
Lol. So many angry Jay-Z stans.
Only nigga mad are Wayne hater b. I fuck with Wayne and Jay so im happy for both. No need to act like a bitch about it. Nigga take the time out to hate? Make no sense just keep it moving b both c4 and wtt go hard.
HAHAHA WAYNE GOT THE HATERS LOSING SLEEP! C4 BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR! DRAKE UP NEXT FUCK BOY!
Man thats a blessing right there. Can u say album of the year!
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fuck birdman .the album it´s garbage but he got some loyal fans and birdman bought more than 100k .and the performance at the vmas was terrible so i don´t know why he sold that much ..#fuck YM !
You see how he stayed talking bout how he doesn’t buy albums and he prints em…its cuz HE knows WE know the deal…he’s denying it. YOU BOUGHT THE RECORDS BIRDMAN…numbers dont lie, but birdman don’t fly either.
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Hip Hop loses again. Shame yall support trash rappers. Name one song of Lil Wayne that will be remembered 100 years from now…… *crickets* exactly. fuck outta here
Lil Wayne is the Allen Iverson of rap… what I mean is people like the Tats and braids shoot a lot of shoots (features) u look up dude got a lot of points but u shot a million times. Mike (Jay) just comes to win every night he don’t care about white America or young kids fopping the CD he wants everyone to hear great hip-hop which is WTT.
sells dont equal good music
Oh and u can’t be better then Jay unless u got at less 2 classics. Wayne has zero
the album is straight but it cant fuck with the RED album. im sorry.
This shit so fake! Wanye didnt even have a buzz like that forreal everybody know Cash Money Young Money buy there own albums to boost there sales i’ll say he really did about 400k to 450k first week
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Lol @jaystans…yall over crowding the hate market today…why so mad huh??? Cause the man in leather out sold the older man that invented swag????? Get a life please…wayne stays winning.
looks like Wayne is in for a surprise Birdman fuck tonight, wait that’s every night.
they sold it for the low Price With All this Back To School Shopping Marketing at The Malls Thats Why They moved That Much ……Like Selling Weight To Those Chain Stores Like “Hot Topic” Probably Copped 100,000 so forth and so on ……Those Numbers aren’t individuals Who Bought the album ,,,,,,you got to remember its many ways to sell albums
hahah wayne Is that nigga!!! Jay need kanye..wayne need himself…em needs himself…
I cannot believe that he sold this much cuz he get like 99% hate everywhere i go
So much hate..
haters just get it through ur heads…
Wayne is winning.
Guys it’s all business, 965,000 copies doesn’t mean 965,000 people bought the damn album, it just means 965,00 copies were shipped to retailers to sell! It’s a projection thing. If you go check out your local retailers you’ll find stacks of Lil waynes albums yet to be sold to the people.
Doug Morris, CEO of Universal Music Group…u know that old, short, fat, white guy that probably does nothing…..gets the biggest fucking check
if yall cant believe he sold that many with no buzz; explain why lil b had major buzz and flopped ferociously… buzz isnt the end all be all anymore. i suspect a lot of black eyed pea fans picked it up. that how to love video is one of the best of the year (even though the song is awful)
message board gurus and bloggers are losing their influence to the 18-34 yr old white girl. now you know how black folks felt in the late 90s when puffy sold a mil off a sting sample and nelly went diamond
anybody else realize that birdman has a STAR tatooed to his HEAD?? LOLOL
real talk, its whatever, the carter 4 definitley wasnt one of waynes best efforts to date, but its whatever
take care coming soon tho…
anybody else realize that birdman has a STAR tatooed to his HEAD?? LOLOL
real talk, its whatever, the carter 4 definitley wasnt one of waynes best efforts to date, but its whatever
take care coming soon tho.
how come lil wayne didnt do any interviews in new york
If he wins a Grammy then I’ll give him props. But until then, numbers mean nothing to me.
you are a dipshit.
i dont get it jus becuz he say he didnt buy them is that suppose to mean its credible i mean this is the same guy who said he would pay producers this the same guy who said he was going to buy a fb team which majority owner said he never had a convo with and a oil company nobody can get in contact with to invest
Men Lie Women Lie Baby do too
Birdman word is a credible as a wikipedia page with no links
Make no mistake, This nigga is raping Wayne financially (and maybe physically) but definitely financially
lol @ the clowns saying he bought his own product… WE KNOW U NIGGAZ HAVE NO TYPE OF BUSINESS MIND
If Drake sell less then Little Gremlin then for sure we know Bird Crap is full of shit!
5 Years ago 50 cent sold over a milli! know he can push 200k! give it a year or 2 it’l be wayne half of the world believe’s fuckin Birdman lil wayne’s suger daddy bought 250-300 thousand records! to think an album as avergae as Carter IV sold nearly a milli is fucking disgraceful when you see how bad the likes of real rappers sell these days Slaughterhouse in my eyes tha most lyrical group since the Four Hourseman and they’ll struggle to sell 40k even with Shady records behind them and it’s because of the demographic Lil wayne appeals to kids between the ages of 9-18 and thats it the full album was all singing and shit like drake’s i respect that he got Tek9,Jada,Andre 300 ect on one album but the full album was below par nuff said!
You guys kill me. Wayne cant be making money because you dont like him. Baby bought 600k by himself. Pure ignorance. Please tell us how Baby would accumulate 600,000 copies of this album in one week? He bought 600k with his credit card on iTunes? or he drove around to 50,000 retail stores throughout the country. There aren’t that many retail stores anymore and they don’t stock more than 50 to 100 copies in each store at a time.
For the others that have no idea what they are talking about. Scan is scanned, not shipped. They shipped 2 million, scanned 1 million in sales.
Live with it. Wayne is the biggest star in rap today. It may make you feel better tho think that he’s not making any money or not selling records while you get your 9-5 at the supermarket on, but reality is reality.
Y’all sum hatin ass niggas fuck yall motherfuckers… YMCMB stand up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He stutter alot when slay ask him about buying there own cds! smh if he did buy albums he wouldnt tell him lol shit i wouldnt!!!! the money comes right back in there pockets 9,560,000 million of it!
We didn’t crown Hova the GOAT base on sales. Do ur home work Hov numbers never change. Every since reasonable doubt. His only album to do big numbers was Hard knock life. Other than that he’s a 450,000 first week sale artist. He’s 50 million to the good in sales 13 grammys. And 12 number one albums. We gave him the Goat because he earned that title for being the best lyrical genius since and biggie. Not because he sold his soul to th industry because he earn and change the industry. Tell me what blood say narley dude and ride skate boards. He’s what real hip hop heads call Gusto. C B 4 ass dude. Gimmick.
NEGRO PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why niggas so mad Weezy sold units? Ya’ll BEEN knew that white people support, black people steal and complain.
Seriously.
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JihaD
This makes me think when wayne said “If them bitches dont sell, We’ll buy em back”…thats lil wayne line. I guess we’ll take it how we want it…..Steems
He took to long to answer a simple question. Seemed anxious to with his answer. I’m NOT HATING…its just not believable…Birdman is not believable, he’s full of shit and has been full of shit for a while. He’s the type of dude that will do ANYTHING to look like he’s richer then he really is or more successful then he really is. He bet 2 million that Miami would beat Dallas. Not only did Miami lose, he and Wayne then partied with the Dallas players.
Cash Money artists to me are the losers you see in High School and then form a group/label together and pretend to be jocks even though at heart their still the losers.
Now lets say he really did sell 900k first week and were all pissed about it…that means next Jay-Z/NaS album we need to NOT download the album off a torrent and get that shit in the stores and do it for hip-hop.
Hip Hop Is In Terrible Shape Sale Wise
Artist That Dont Cheat Sales Are Considered Flops & Faggets Who Buy Their Own Album Are Considered GOAT???
VANILLA ICE TOP 5 MC HAMMER TOP 5 NELLY TOP 5. FUCK ER BODY ELSE WAYNE IS BETTER THAN RAKIM AND NAS. I WENT INTO THE MOVIE BUSINESS, NO 14 YEAR OLDS WITH FRUITY LOOPS. YALL CAN HAVE IT. REAL PROS USING GEAR YA CAN’T DOWNLOAD FEELS NICE
@Noble the God, Well said!!! These people really think numbers mean that you are king??? Wow have things changed, before if you were the top selling artist in rap that meant you were the biggest sell out!!! I guess when Will Smith was on top of the hip hop world he was the GOAT???
Get da fuk outta here wit dat bull shit!
I think Jay-Z stans might actually be the worst on Earth, pretty much.
All these haters out here need to face it!! lil wayne is the new regenarated hip hop artist & ceo – president.(since Pac,Biggie,JayZ,&Puffy) He not only publicly does stuff to make he self better he has the most succesfull artist on YMCMB than BadBoy rcd. So before yall start talkin down on bird man buyin album yall need to think how many of your favorite artist did the same to gain profit or publisty. But but lil wayne just simply has what everone wants(freedom of speech, AND to do what ever they want!!!
Not bad album sales considering Birdman bought 500k of the records himself.
How in the hell can you tell me, that Carter 4 sold this many records, when it didn’t have nearly as good marketing, or singles, and his past few albums flopped? Somehow just somehow he sells this many with falling off majorly, I am not buying into this at all. No I am not hating either, LOL
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