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This Will Buy Him Lots Of Lollipops!

Filed under: Music Minute > Lil' Wayne

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Here's something unexpected!

Although most industry insiders believed Madonna or Mariah would be the top-selling album of the year, it turns out that might not be the case.

Someone's set to beat both divas for biggest sales of the year, and that's rapper and "pretty boy" Lil' Wayne.

What helped his album get so much hype before it was even released?

Turns out it was helped by all the internet leaks of his songs!!!

It's been the best free publicity, say industry experts.

Lil' Wayne's Tha Carter III came out this Tuesday morning, so exact figures have yet been determined, but execs at his music label estimate the album will sell between 850,000 and 950,000 by the end of its first week.

And if they're right, that'd be double the amount Mariah's album opened with.

Damnnnnnnn!

Pat Monaco, exec VP of sales for the Universal Motown Republic Group, says that, "The accounts were bullish by 10 in the morning. The sales the first few hours were exceeding the rate that the Kanye album sold a year ago. Wayne was one of these records that, because it was so highly anticipated, with the leaks and everything, it caused more people to go out at 8 in the morning to buy the CD."

And with the CD such a long time in the making, Monaco adds that finalizing the album was "like putting a traditional setup and street date on a guy that was just nontraditional. It changed dates, changed titles, changed songs, changed the people that were working on it. But sonically, the record bears out."

Let's see if the album really sells that well.

Suck on it!

[Image via WENN.]



170 comments to “This Will Buy Him Lots Of Lollipops!”

More comments: [1] 2 »

  1. Jssss says – reply to this
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    first

  2. tacon says – reply to this
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    This album is FIRE!!!!!

  3. Claud says – reply to this
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    This man is hideous. "Lollipop" is infectious, kind of like gonorrhea.

  4. mimi says – reply to this
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    of course he's on top, all the little ho's love his music, and they're the one buying the crap!

  5. tacon says – reply to this
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    WEEZY F BABY PLEASE SAY THE BABY

  6. ho says – reply to this
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    ho

  7. TACON says – reply to this
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    YOU LOSERS NEED TO GET YOUR HEADS OUT OF BETH DITTO'S FAT ASS AND MADONNA'S MUSCULAR ASS, AND LISTEN TO SOMEONE WHO REALLY HAS TALENT

  8. Steph says – reply to this
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    Wow

  9. Olall says – reply to this
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    I love his song =D

  10. 10

    okay okay .

  11. Daryl says – reply to this
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    Can't believe that piece of shit considered "music" will sell that much! People have no taste anymore…sucks!

  12. hloys says – reply to this
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    SHITT!! i can see his meat from that nose!

  13. Daryl says – reply to this
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    and for the record..that is one UGLY MOTHERFUCKER!

  14. TACON says – reply to this
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    yOU REALLY DON'T KNOW MUCH

  15. dana says – reply to this
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    what does his shirt say??

  16. Holly says – reply to this
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    LiL WAYNE iS FUCKiNG SEXY!!!

    AND HiS MUSiC iS HOTT!!!

    Go weezy…..top the charts!

  17. TACON says – reply to this
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    WELL ALMOST 100,000 PEOPLE CAN'T BE WRONG…WELL UNLESS THEY ARE VOTING FOR GEORGE BUSH OR JOHN MCCAIN…HA

  18. loni says – reply to this
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    he is FUCKING UGLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  19. Ameli says – reply to this
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    love the shirt!!! hahaha

  20. Loo says – reply to this
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    that should buy him a lot of drugs.

  21. marya says – reply to this
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    Hell yeah, because Wayne is a BEAST! Love this line: "Okay you're a goon, but what's a goon to a GOBLIN?!"

  22. britt says – reply to this
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    i knew it. 8 yr olds and 38 yr olds are on this shit.

  23. 3l$@ says – reply to this
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    i knew it good for him guess us lambs have to go buy more MC cd's :|

  24. ks says – reply to this
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    Sexy? Pretty Boy? Talented? OMG. The music industry is seriously in the crapper if this is what's selling. Anyone (woman or man) who thinks this guy is good looking ought to have their heads examined! People are so dumb these days.

  25. Leann says – reply to this
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    I thought all of the album leaks on limewire would habe HURT his sales? but if he does sell that much that would be pretty amazing beating out the queens of pop!

  26. jj says – reply to this
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    I can't believe we live in a country where a song like "Lollipop" is #1. I 'll admit that sometimes I find the hooks in silly songs catchy, but it's so unoriginal and embarrassing to me. Especially with all the young kids who sing along with it. No class.

  27. katie says – reply to this
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    the face tattoos? wtf? hahahah

  28. Erin says – reply to this
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    Funny Perez thinks he knows all but he doesn't even know the greatest rapper alive. Maybe that's why it was so anticipated? Or maybe because the "Carter 3" got leaked onto the internet last year, he made it into a mixtape and then came out with another Carter 3 within a year. If there's a remix Lil Wayne's on it. Do your research Perez. Suck on that.

  29. Sauza says – reply to this
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    fuck this dude.
    seriously.
    i'm tired of hearing his shit. ugh.
    its all about NAS. post about some
    real hip hop please.

  30. P says – reply to this
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    JA JESTEM POLAK!!!

  31. Sauza says – reply to this
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    andddd NAS' new album is epic.
    yes, i've heard it already ;)

  32. 32

    i knew it. 8 yr olds and 38 yr olds are on his shit

  33. word says – reply to this
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    Haha… I bet the insider *hater* that leaked the songs is leaking himself right now!!!! Haters never prosper!!!!

  34. Nelso says – reply to this
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    Well I purchased both Mariah and Madonna's album. You couldn't pay me to go purchase this Li'l crap album.
    Are you just stirring up drama Perez?

  35. Daish says – reply to this
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    the album is really good. fuckin love lil wayne.

  36. fumer says – reply to this
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    Um, who expected Madonna to have the top-selling album this year? 'Cause I don't recall that EVER being brought up…maybe in Perez's little kingdom of make believe. Madonna's selling exactly what we thought she would…BADLY.

  37. Erin says – reply to this
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    Re: mimi – And Mimi must be the ho buying Mariah, Madonna, and Kanye's music. Get off the mainstream train. Perez I have been giving you too much credit. You can get almost any album before it's released off the internet. You could download Maria's and Kanye's weeks before they were released. His album will do so well because it IS the most anticipated album of the year. Sorry Daryl and Mimi consider people who "cowrite" their music "talent". He doesn't even write his verses down he just memorizes them. He is so creative and clever. Do yourself a FAVOR buy this album so you can support artists with REAL talent.

  38. Princ says – reply to this
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    Weezy is a crazy ass mofo. ;)

  39. KRISH says – reply to this
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    HE LOOKS LIKE A BOOTY RASH…IN THE CRACK OF THE BOOTY

  40. khayy says – reply to this
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    W33ZY F BAYBii3

  41. john says – reply to this
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    this album is really nice, a change from the usual 50 cent-style trash.

    awesome songs, really different. go wayne!

  42. Vigho says – reply to this
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    Nobody thought Madonna would have the year's top-selling album, at least not in the US; Mariah or Usher was more likely. Even I didn't, and I'm a Madonna fan. If you thought so, you were out of your mind!

  43. alexi says – reply to this
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    Good for WEEZY F BABY!! Good job!! I guess yall dont have to question if he's the BEST RAPPER ALIVE anymore! Also, where can I get that shirt? And to the people talking about he is a disgrace and all that bullshit why are you vocalizing you concerns on perezhilton.com seriously if you wanna protest the great rappers that the south produces do it in a more relvant setting

  44. Jay says – reply to this
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    This is why nicknames can't be given to yourself…that boy ain't "pretty", except 'pretty hideous'! He needs a jaw-bone implant or a face transplant!

  45. alexi says – reply to this
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    Good for WEEZY F BABY!! Good job!! I guess yall dont have to question if he's the BEST RAPPER ALIVE anymore! Also, where can I get that shirt? And to the people talking about he is a disgrace and all that bullshit why are you vocalizing you concerns on perezhilton.com seriously if you wanna protest the great rappers that the south produces do it in a more relevant setting

  46. susan says – reply to this
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    Ahh, sorry perez but most everyone including Usher thought Usher would have the biggest release not mariah or madonna. Usher himself even said Jive had had some good success with the likes of Chris Brown but it was time for them to bring out the Giant, meaning himself. Nothing gives me greater pleasure to have him been proved wrong. Really wrong.

  47. alexi says – reply to this
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    Oh and Im sorry Weezy (and my roommate is going to kill me for this) but we all need to accept certain truths in life and you just aint pretty guy!!

  48. liv says – reply to this
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    its sold out everywhere! so bummed

  49. mjpst says – reply to this
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    WTF does his shirt say?

  50. fooli says – reply to this
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    Hope this nig saves some dat money,,but you know he won't, they never do.

  51. mzzzz says – reply to this
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    I love this CD already, and it sold out almost everywhere here! I had to drive an extra couple of miles to get it!!! "Weeeeezy phone home~" YES SUR

  52. Two W says – reply to this
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    Go buy that CD Fuck Madonna And Mariah. I bet her sorry ass is going to ask him to be on her next song. I cant stand white woman, but they can suck some mean dick.

    Lil Wayne Go buy the cd.

  53. Twowh says – reply to this
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    Funny how this happened to white woman against a Black man. Sounds kinda like the presidential race

  54. mzzzz says – reply to this
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    And his shirt says…."Everything you like now, I liked in Public School"….

  55. Cass says – reply to this
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    This mad is UGLY…and untalented… :(

  56. mjpst says – reply to this
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    Re: mzzzz
    Thank You.

  57. FUKNO says – reply to this
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    GOTS TO LOVE WEEZY F. BABY…..HE KILLED SUMMERJAM 08………GO WEEZY……….F THE HATERS

  58. Hyde says – reply to this
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    Some of his new crap was Amazon's Album of the Day for $1.99 a few days ago. I guess that's how you move unites, sell it cheap. Was too much for me to pay for that garbage!!

  59. OMG says – reply to this
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    What the hell are we as a nation doing to our youth???? This guy openly admits to MURDERING FOUR PEOPLE! And we say, oh, yeah but he can wear his pants below is ass crack and do drugs and make an album so lets buy it and make this freak of a human rich and worshipped. And the youth of our nation think that he is to be looked up to. The children of our nation, think that because we allow this, we believe in him. He is to be admired??? Everyone knows those stupid tear drops mean he's commited murder, yet we'll see him on the red carpet. We have the most screwed up values, if you can call them that.

    Here are some foolish quotes from this foolish, mindless, lawbreaking, ass.

    Here are a few other quotes from the interview

    "I have four teardrops on my face and I have to look my mamma in her eye everyday. I can't lie to her..Fuck what they think…"

    "I'm not gonna rap about you, man I will murder you, your family, your child, a newborn…I don't give a fuck"

    Yeah, He just sounds wonderful doesnt he? OMG. we are in trouble people if this is acceptable to us.

  60. whori says – reply to this
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    WHORIAH SUCKS!!! A NO-TALENT LIKE LIL WAYNE SOLD MORE THAN DOUBLE WHAT THAT COW SOLD. SHE IS SOOOOO OVER.

    WHORIAH SUCKS!

  61. Hmmmm says – reply to this
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    Let me make a prediction, this man will be in the papers for one or both of these sentences.

    He is either going to o.d. on drugs or be involved in some murder, either committing yet another one and actually getting busted for it, or he'll be the victim.

    Just watch. He's a winner, thats for sure.

  62. B'Mo says – reply to this
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    everyone knew madonna's album wasn't gonna do shit. and mariah, yeah right, i'm not even gonna go there. weezy was the one everybody had their eye on. them 2 hoes are too old to have anybody paying them any attention.

  63. ILLeS says – reply to this
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    Weezy F Baby!

  64. FUKNO says – reply to this
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    Re: OMG – IF U HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HIM SELLING HIS MUSIC MAYBE U CAM MIGRATE TO MARS………..ACCORDING TO HIS PROJECTED ALBUM SALES ALMOST 1 MILLION PPL DO NOT SHARE THE SAME SENTIMENTS………..WEEZY F. BABY

    IN ADDITION, UR PREZ BUSH IS KILLIN INNOCENT PPL OVER A USELESS WAR…….WORD!

  65. allen says – reply to this
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    well damn, lambs, weezy already sold more than your pig goddess. i guess she's gonna get a divorce now. her publicity stunt didn't work.

  66. TJ says – reply to this
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    mariah and madonna are officially FLOPS.

  67. bulug says – reply to this
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    i work at a record store and this cd is selling like crazy! I don't understand it.

  68. vex says – reply to this
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    an intelligent society wouldn't turn a worthless, talentless, admitted he's a murdering asshole like this into a celebrity, they'd stone him to death and get him out of the gene pool. Title this and any picture of perez as "the decline of western civilization finds rock bottom"

  69. 69

    the album sold so well because he's been working on it for the past 5 years.. shit kept getting leaked onto mixtapes and shit so he was tryin to keep this album completely exclusive.. i've been waiting for the carter 3 to come out for a minute and i'm glad it finally did.. weezy is gonna go down as the best rapper alive and fuck the haters that say his shit is lame — best album ever

  70. mrs.t says – reply to this
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    OOGLY MOOGLY

  71. bill says – reply to this
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    Metallica is coming out with an album this year that will kill all of these album's record sales.

  72. tacon says – reply to this
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    Metallica, you're smokin that Winehouse shit!!!

  73. nnnnn says – reply to this
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    lets get FACTS straight. the leaks were different songs than the ones on the album. good publicity, but its different material so everything on the album is fresh.

    duuuuuh perez

  74. Denis says – reply to this
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    Of course, he's going to sell a lot. He has Kanye and major producer's work on this record. His mixtapes were a lot better but this is his first major record and people have been waiting for his since LAST YEAR. But N.E.R.D's record is soooo much better.

  75. manda says – reply to this
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    you guys are all crazy. all his work is savage. check him out other then the carter 3.. try carter 2. like father like son.. I real