After Rebirth and IANAHB, he can go nowhere but up.

Rap albums tend to sell big first week and well its Wayne...

Im more interested to see how Brit will do

I'm very interested to see that too. You can never really predict Britney's sales early because it all depends on how the promo is. If the promo for this album is terrible (ie, Blackout), she will fail. If the promo is decent (ie, Circus), she will do well. If the promo is really good, she could very well be the bitch to look out for this year.

This is also a possibility however. TC3 had gigantic singles (especially for Hip-Hop), and at the end of the day is Lil Wayne's only big selling album. It is also possible that he doesn't live up to expectations but I hope that isn't true

I wouldn't doubt these projections. Lil Wayne's last two albums sold decently after TC3 and he has hype.

However, I really wish these sites would stop predicting months ahead of the release. It'd be better to wait until the week of the release to avoid looking stupid in the end.

Nope. 176,000 (Rebirth-2009)
And his last one sold around the same in the first week too. But that was digital only.

I predict 450-550k. And He doesn't even deserve 1/12 of that because well---I just don't like his music to put it nicely

Well put
Except Blackout underperformed, not so much fail

Wayne is doing minimum 600K

Mark my words

IA. With a good video for HIAM and one good televised performance she can go gold first week

On the other hand I dont know what to expect from Gagas first week

I'm buying everyone's album to save the industry. lol

Wayne will defintely do over 500K with Carter IV !!!!!

It's lead single is smashing on radios and charts ! It hasn't even peaked yet and no music video yet !

Considering Cake or Cage The Elephant are going to be #1 this week with barely 40k - imagine how low sales will be until then? Scary.

Good point. Eminem's Recovery has outsold TC3 within like six months. TC3 opened up with those #s due to hype.

If this is true then they couldn't have been more wrong smh

Recovery has yet to outsell Carter III

Recovery- 3.3 M
Carter III- 3.55 M