Lil Wayne's 'Carter IV' sells just under a million copies
Only Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' had a bigger debut this year
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"Tha Carter V," anyone?
Lil Wayne's latest set, "Tha Carter IV," easily topped this week's Billboard 200 chart, managing to sell 964,000 in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan.
It's the New Orleans rapper's third No. 1 album following 2008's "Tha Carter III" and last year's "I Am Not a Human Being."
Digitally, "Carter IV" sold 362,000 MP3 copies, making it the second-largest digital sales week ever for an album (first place goes to "Born This Way" again).
Lil Wayne recently performed on the MTV Movie Awards.
Read our review of "Tha Carter IV" here.
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