It's funny that the carter 3 emerged the highest selling album of 2008 with just 2.8million sold, that means sales was really slow in 2008. I can remember in 2005, mariah carey's album, emancipation of mimi was the top selling, and it sold 4.8million at the end of the year.
Anyway, its cool that a rap album was the highest selling albm for 2008, beating out rock and pop albums.
I would give you the full news as given by hiphopdx, and also comments from the site, to let you know what people think of wayne being the top seller in 2008. And just to add, t.i's paper trail album was the second best selling rap album for 2008.
Just in time for the new year, Nielsen Soundscan shared their annual report with select industry and media. This year's results of retail and digital music sales included many Hip Hop stars such as Lil Wayne [click to read], Kanye West and Flo Rida.
For Wayne, the Cash Money Records veteran rapper had the top-selling album in any genre in his Tha Carter III [click to read]. His sixth studio album, which included hits "A Milli" [click to listen], "Lollipop" and "Mrs. Officer," sold, according to the chart service, approximately 2,874,000 units this year. The effort, released June 10, edged out Coldplay's Viva La Vida, by over 700,000 units.
T.I.'s Paper Trail [click to read] came in at #8, selling 1,522,000 units, as Beyonce's I Am...Sasha Fierce [click to read], released late this year, drew 1,459,000 units. The trio were the only urban artists in the Top 10, a list consisting of Country sensation Taylor Swift, veteran rockers AC/DC and Metallica, and the onetime Jive Records Rap artist-turned-Rock sensation, Kid Rock.
Despite Tha Carter III being the best-selling album, it was Taylor Swift, who had two Top 10-selling albums, that led all artist-sales, with over four million units from her entire catalog this year. Sampled by Boogie Down Productions in the '80s, AC/DC also topped Wayne, putting the New Orleans rapper at third, selling 3,382,000 of total catalog in the last year. He was the only Hip Hop artist to make the Top 10.
COMMENTS!!!
The problem I have with that comment is CARTER 3 THE NEW TESTAMENT. Look just because he had a year like 50 Cent in 2003 doesn't mean his music is classic. Aww fuck it I'm sick and tired of talking about the bullshit hip hop I'm sticking to what I like and ignore the bullshit in 09 this shit is getting ridiculous.
Sad thing about hip hop is that other than Nas and a few others...no one took advantage of subject matter that the times have given people to make masterpeices that are timeless...With the recession, election, and war going on, classics should have been produced...Look at what Dre did in post riot LA, what Nas did around 911, Rakim in the crack era, PE during the eighties, the beatles in the 60s, marvin in the 70s, blues and jazz musicians of the depression, etc. no one is stepping up to be the sound of the times. Thats is sickening the genre that is the voice of the people of the struggle has almost nothing relevant to say...damn!"
If your album goes platinum it has got nuthing to do with luck, just means a million people are stupid as fuck" with that IT line I can describe the whole lil wayne hype , give it another year and everybody will say that he's a fucking joke cuz what's to like about lil wayne ??? is it the fact that he doesn't write his own lyrics ? is it because he got an annoying voice? or is it because you are a faggot comming outta the closet and think lil wayne is hot ? fuck the carter 3 and fuck anybody who thinks he can rap
LiL Wayne hard as fuck and always will be hes a legend in this game and always gonna be on top noone can come close to the shit he has done not even jay or nas or any of these so called legends wayne is a legend if ur a hater then ur a bitch nigger but wayne the shit i think he only did the best album because of the 2 year wait when he didn't drop shit for us besides mixtapes so when it hit stores EVERYONE went crAZY..ITs a good album though it still on the charts for album sales which is showin good cause Ludas isn't and thats sooo retarted cause that cds hard as fuck
i gotta admit i used to bump wayne alot until he started using auto tune now ive lost all interest in him. same with kanye aswell. what happened to all the good hip hop with mean flows. hardly anyone doing it now. im just hoping 09 will be a better year 4 hip hop. still congrats to him though he no how 2 get that paper
i realized that 99% on this site didn't hear carter 3.... if yall did u wont be talking on auto-tune..crazy album.. well deserved waynecongrats
(No Subject) congrats to lil wayne To me and most people i will say Lil wayne is not the best rapper alive but as far as now he is the name of hip hop in general right now i liked lil wayne before during the carter 1,2 dedication 2 drought 2&3 those was his best days so far i been supporting lil wayne seens the block is hot video came out. i dont have nothing against the auto tune but we all or 99% of us no that lil wayne and the auto tune dont come out right but yeah im still nothing forward to tha carter
(No Subject) now i aint no hater or anything but Tha Carter 3 was wack. i was a big lil wayne fan when Tha Carter came out and an even bigger wayne fan when he dropped Tha Carter 2. alot of my nigaz clowned on me for buyin Tha Carter 2 but i didnt give a fuck because it was sum raw shit. but when Tha Carter 3 came out i was pissed tha fuck off for waiting long as hell for a piece of shit cd. wayne failed nasty on that poor excuse for a cd. tha only good songs on C3 were "Dr. Carter","Dont Shoot Me Down" and 3 Peat. u cant even compare C3 with C2. Carter 3 was garbage and wayne failed horribly on that wack ass shit. now he doin rock music? im sorry wayne corny as fuck with that.C4 better be tha best cd ever made or else fuck that niga
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