Topix — NEW YORK -- It wasn't quite "A Milli" but it was awful close: Lil Wayne 's "Tha Carter IV" sold 964,000 in its debut week for the second-best first-week sales of the year. more info

Mjsbigblog — No Idol sales numbers yet. Please post them when you find them. According to this press release from his label, Lil Wayne sold 964K copies of “Tha Carter IV” and broke a record for the most digital copies sold in 4 days (348K). 95% of digital al... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Lil Wayne's eagerly anticipated album Tha Carter IV is on course to smash iTunes records. According to our US Team, Weezy's fifth studio LP looks likely to sell more than 850,000 copies in its... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — The first week sales for Carter IV are officially in. According to Billboard, Lil Wayne’s brand new album has sold 964,000 units in its first week. 362,000 of those were digital copies. That marks the second-largest digital sales week of all time f... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — So Drake and Lil Wayne have been talking about doing a joint album. Now DJ Khaled and Rick Ross have thrown their names into the hat to work on the album with Drizzy and Weezy.   more info

ContactMusic — Rapper Lil Wayne is back on top of the U. S. album charts after picking up first-week sales of over 964,000 for his new release Tha Carter Iv. It marks the biggest week for a hip-hop album or any release by a male artist since Wayne hit the top spot ... more info

ContactMusic — Hip-hop star Lil Wayne's new album Tha Carter Iv has smashed Jay Z and Kanye West's iTunes sales records, after 300,000 downloads were snapped up in just four days. West and Jay Z's Watch the Throne went on sale exclusively through iTunes in its firs... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Eminem and Lil Wayne are set to perform a 6-hour concert in Melbourne, Australia. The gig is set to take place on December 1st at the Etihad Stadium. Tickets go on sale on September 13th and are priced at $150. more info

NME — "It just means people want to hear it," says rapper more info

Perez Hilton — Um, wow. You wouldn't hear this from most music artists. However, Lil Wayne has said that he wasn't too worried when his new album Tha Carter IV leaked online. In fact, he insisted that it showed how much people wanted to hear the record. Even thou... more info