What’s the big damn deal?

Lil’ Wayne sold almost a million copies of that dreadful CD, the name of which escapes me right now. So what? A local DJ remembers when CDs used to ship one million units to stores. Now we’re making a big deal because a junkie manages to sell close to a million CDs.

The record label probably bought 300,000 of those units to give away or hide in warehouses. Even label execs are at a loss to explain why people are celebrating a feat that was de rigueur for the industry just a few years ago.

“There’s no logical answer,” says Universal Motown President Sylvia Rhone on why people are tripping so hard on Wayne’s sales.

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