According to industry estimates, Lil’ Wayne’s Tha Carter IV is on pace to sell 700,000 – 850,000 units its first week in stores. Tha Carter IV will trounce 1st week sales of Jay Z and Kanye’s The Throne and Beyonce’s 4, and will place 2nd only to Lady Gaga for the most albums sold in a week this year.
This figure will likely stand despite the fact that Wayne has no official top 10 hits off this truly awful album. This brings to mind a form of expression frequently used by the moneyed set to describe mass consumption of worthless consumer products: “there is no accounting for good taste.”
Source: TLF