Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter IV” Certified Double Platinum

    Lil Wayne’s latest album Tha Carter IV has been certified double platinum after three months in stores (via HHNM).

    The RIAA certified the album, which neared a million copies sold in its first week, on November 16th. Though the LP has shipped more than two-million units, TC4 has only actually sold 1,700,000 copies.

    Tha Carter IV, released on August 29, 2011, features guest appearances from Drake, Tech N9ne, Cory Gunz, Rick Ross, Busta Rhymes and more, and has also spawned the singles “6 Foot 7 Foot,” “She Will” and “How to Love.”

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    182 thoughts on “Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter IV” Certified Double Platinum

    1. SHOUT OUT TO WAYNE YMCMB YOU KNOW I RIDE WITH DRAKE ALL DAMN DAY AND WAYNE IS HIS BOSS. SO YEAH THE FAM EATING. YMCMB TAKE OVER IS CRAZY. APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT. GO GET THAT TAKE CARE DRAKE NEED THAT PLAT ALBUM. GET TYGA ALBUM WHEN IT DROP IN A FEW WEEKS

    2. This is what I don’t understand. Why are they giving it the double platinum certification if the sales have not yet crossed the 2 million mark? So practically any artist can have a million copies of their album shipped to stores in the first week and the RIAA can still certify it platinum even though it may have sold only 150k the first week. Just give it the certification when the sales actually cross that amount, otherwise it’s not a true double platinum album.

      1. its actually 2 milli, if you include they include the numbers outside US get your facts straight, and I don’t think they’re that stupid to give away plaques like that.

      2. not many artist even have 500k copies shipped let alone 1 million, so even having 2 million ship is an accomplishment, duh.

      3. That’s just how platinum certifications work. They track how many albums are shipped, not how many albums are purchased. For example, that’s how 50 went Gold with his last CD even though in reality he only sold about 430K.

    3. we all know he only really sold around 100k, the rest was brought by his ‘daddy’.
      I used to be a wayne fan, and somewhat still am, but this album is trash and its a straight up fabrication that this album was brought by real people.

      1. You never was a Wayne fan and you didn’t even hear his album, stfu. That album was solid and I played it for 2 weeks straight before I put in another cd.

      2. Wow, 2 weeks straight? Hey dumbass if it was any good you would still listen to it, don’t be a dickrider and admitt that it was a garbage album. But no you got your head so far up waynes ass you eat his shit.

      3. too bad haters refuse to admit wayne had a good album and attack people for liking it. just because you don’t like wayne, it doesn’t mean his album isn’t good. 95% of people who like gangsta rap, aren’t even willing to have a fist fight. being a buster ass customer (drug addict) and owning a legal gun, doesn’t make you hard. try selling drugs and owning a stolen gun, while being a 2 time felon, if you want to e a g.

      1. It means 2 million was shipped, dummy. It has sold 1.7 million and yes people did buy it. That shit was sold out in 4 Targets that I went to in the first. Stop the hate.

      2. ^ there are no words for how sad that is. you made your mom drive you to 4 different locations looking for a wayne cd? grow up.

        inb4 “no faggot, my moms didn’t drive me, i took the bus after school lol hater stop hatin on wayne hurr durr.”

    4. Music companies buyin’ their own cd’s exist, but just a few thousand’s in order to get a certification that will produce news in the media, which is cheaper than an actual add campaign.

      But to think YMCMB bought the majority, or 90% like I read in the comments, of CIV is complete bull shit and does not make anysense. CIV is trash IMO but you got to be relevant in your hatin’

    5. Congrats wayne. 1,700,000 people bought this shit. Half females the other half are morons. I don’ hate Wayne its not his fault his fans are a bunch of dumb uncle ruckus looking muthafuckas. Their don’t give a shit about the music just the bankroll. They don’t about quality. They only listen to rich niggas and whoever bitches listen to. And its not just these youngsters. Some of these niggas 25 and over are going through a mid life pussy crisis. Or as I call em no game having ass niggas. Hip hop is dead. When niggas tell u lyrics don’t matter, quality don’t matter, money and hoes matter. It’s dead. Wayne opened the door for wackness. That’s why niggas hate him. If it wasn’t for him niggas like Drake, Ross and Lil b wouldn’t have been comfortable jumping in the game knowing they suck. Lil Wayne co-signs all these fags does songs with them and these idiots love em. So I don’t hate Wayne just his fans for supporting garbage. Same goes for fans of mmg, Taylor gang, brick sqaud, white girl Mobb and so on

      1. Lyrics don’t matter. Lyrics have never fucking mattered. The only thing that really matters is that you move the crowd. Run DMC basically pioneered the hip-hop game as we know it today, and their lyrics were elementary. What got them over was the way they rocked the mic.
        Since ’08, Wayne has really dropped off. But there are times still- like with 6 ft 7 ft- that you realize dude really is a dope MC, He gets the people moving.
        All that shit about wordplay… that’s for rap nerd fags who sit there deconstructing songs bar by bar. People don’t listen to music for that. They listen to be entrertained.

    6. And 400 Degreez is still Cash Money’s best-selling album (4x Platinum)…so at least we’re safe in that regard.

      REJUVENATION JANUARY 17…that’s the REAL Cash Money sound!

      1. CO-SIGN!!! I been screaming that for years, how you gonna be the best rapper alive and you dont even have the highest selling album on ya label, whether its 4mil or 6mil. and co-sign to dude up top. a platinum record is like a diamond record these days and a gold record is like multi-platinum. Not hatin on wayne, congrats on 2x plat, i dont believe the buying records bs. he’s a good ass rapper, just not the best.

    7. I didn’t know that soundscan can count bootlegs and downloads now. Thats an amazing breakthrough in technology because I guess they figured out that music is in a recession and nobodys buying music like they use too. Its inpossible to go double plat, those numbers are fake.

    8. real talk:

      a gold selling artist is a boss in todays era of music a sub gold artist is a rising star in the late 90 and early 2000’s wale would have been dropped from the label and rick ross would just be some local rapper from miami

    9. New York rapper 50 Cent continues to make the history books, as his first studio album Get Rich Or Die Tryinhas hit the 8 times platinum mark this week, 8 years after its debut on store shelves in February of 2003.

      The G-Unit generals most recent feat makes GRODT the fourth best-selling rap album off all time, only behind his mentor Eminems The Marshall Mathers LP which has moved 10,341,000 copies, and The Eminem Show, that has sold 9,928,000 CDs. 50 also comes in slightly behind St Louis rapper Nellys Country Grammar which currently stands 8,489,000 copies sold since its release in 2000.

      In 2003, Get Rich Or Die Tryin debuted at number one on charts selling 872,000 units in its first week on store shelves, and was certified 6 times platinum by the RIAA by the end of the release year.

      ALL OF YOU HAVE THIS ALBUM YOUR FAV RAPPER WHO HATES 50 HAS THIS ALBUM….BAWSE

    10. Who cares what this guy sold is he giving you the money??Let me say that hes not nice on the mic he sounds horrible and him selling this much is all hype not because hes good at his craft.

    11. THATS MY NIGGA!! YMCMB FOREVER. I CELEBRATED BY GIVING WAYNE THE BIGGEST BLOW JOB OF HIS LIFE!! HE PULLED OUT AND BUSSED ALL OVER MY FACE AND I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT!

      1. wait until they come home from school??????? what about all these sad ass grown men who have nothing better 2 do than hate on a nigga who wouldn’t wipe his ass with thier opinion. damn i cant believe some of you are so pissed off about this, sad part is the rappers ya’ll look up 2 fuck wit dis nigga. so does that say about U.

    12. rap has always been for adults thats why wane keeps it simple for the kids vroom vroom/motor bike.oh that shit was fire they love simole shit like that theyt dont care about flows or real word play because most of them dropped out of school early haah they dont know what the fuck a double entendre is or proper speech .

      1. you a dumb ass nigga, because wayne has rown folk music. by the way, he just 29 years old, so don’t hate because you old as hell. i bet you over 30 years old, but still try to date people under 30 lol.

      2. Let us know when you find that fountain of youth young, dumb nikka. You’ll be shitting in diapers sooner or later too

    13. If U GO PLATINUM ITS GOT NOTHIN 2 DO WITH LUCK. JUST MEANS A MILLION PEOPLE ARE AS STUPID AS FUCK! BTW, im a 90’s kid (pac,nas,wu,big… ect) and the only mainstream rapper im feeling right now is Jcole. Everyone thats commercial right now is wack.

      1. cole ain’t shit and just because people don’t like what you like, it doesn’t make them stupid. you need to stop being bitter.

      1. who do you look up to? i bet your father and mother never made a million dollars in a year lol. too bad you can’t even look up to your own parents.

      2. I would rather he look up to anyone other than a cross dressing, syrup sipping, sponge bob hat wearing, man kissing homo. The only person who would look up to Wayne is a fatherless prepubescent teen with homo tendencies and fantasies about kissing grown men in the crotch.

    14. cough cough/asthma flat screen/plasma hahah stupid flow/retard.Young Minds Clouded with Mediocre Bullshit. YMCMB

    15. There’s some immature ass people that come on this site and hide behind some computer and just talk mad shit. Yeah this is a site where you come and give your opinion and I respect what people have to say but yall take it to far.

      I’m not a die–hard slit my wrist stan of wayne but I will say he is one of my favorite artists. Him and birdman are not dumb as fuck in my opinion if they’re makin more money than each person that commented on this site today’s income doubled/tripled if not more.

      This is hip-hop, just a more commercial driven type of persona. Wayne is making music to make sells so he has to market the people that will BUY the album. High schoolers and middler schoolers love this shit because they can piece it together quicker, when they get older they’ll open their mind up to more hip-hop.

      Kanye and Jay doin they shit to, makin some real relevent topic/conversational/political shit that mature ass people can understand and wanna listen too.

      YMCMB- Younger crowd, mainstream, fun/talk-shit music

      WTT/Jay/Ye/G.O.O.D music- mature/flashy/class/hype/humor

      Give your opinion without all the “IMMA FUCK WAYNE EAR”, “FUCK DEM STUPID ASS NIGGAS, THEY SUCK THIS NOT HIP-HOP” shit and move on.

      Signed
      -One Annoyed Ass Hip-Hop Fan that listens to it all to fill my diverse love of the music.

      I was also blazed outta my fuckin mind when I wrote this, thats why its so long.

      Now go ahead and bash me like I know yall are bout to, just know IDGAF

    16. LIL WAYNE BLEW UP AFTER HE KISSED HIS DADDY MY COUSIN WENT TO HIS CONCERT AND IT WAS FLAME ON TO SNAPS AND A CIRCLE YADIG

    17. Let’s look at the facts people:
      Wayne has a huge tattoo on his bicep of a bird, reading “Baby” over it.
      Wayne thinks that no one else should kiss baby but him.
      Wayne was adopted by Baby when he was over the age of ten, but refers to him as Daddy and kisses him on the lips…
      Wayne has some bizarre behavior and is inseparable from bird man…
      Baby molested that boy… and to be honest, I feel sorry for Wayne. He needs to get away from that man.

      1. You put together the Blues clues.

        Don’t care for Wayne as an artist nor person. He just brings out music for “Listeners” not “Hearers.” and thats fine Lupe J.Cole, Phonte,Kendrick Lamar, Common and NAS got the “HEARERS” of music.

    18. it goes to show hows waynes hardwork over the last 5 yrs has paid off,officer ricky as u call him makes way better albums at this point but can barley go gold or better! but waynes star power and appeal is what sells his records its not his music anymore cus ross singles and albums are ever bit as good if not much better, its crazy how fans jump at everything wayne does but ignore all the other talent out there

    19. its the fact that he CLAIMS birdmans lips as his, and only his.. “I’m the ONLY one that kisses his lips” lmfao

      1. Yep. He was sitting in class thinking of Waynes cock all day. He is now out of school and gets to come on here and suck him off.

      2. It’s true the little homo just got out of school. Lol. He was nowhere to be found this morning. Hahaha, little fag.

      3. WATCH UR FUCKIN MOUTH STRINGER U FAKE ASS GANGTSTA BEFORE U GET LIT UP WIT HOT SHELL PUNK ASS NIGGA. GET OFF MY NUTS FUCK BOI U FEEL TO THE NEED TO RESPOND TO EVERY COMMENT I PUT UP.. UR STILL A PUSSY

      4. @ JJ yeah I know this faggot is telling me to get off his nuts when this fag sucks Wayne & drake off in every tread. Eat my dick YADIG, nevermind you probably would.

      1. He’s gone 3x Platinum u fucking retarded piece of shit. Ur just another wack person who thinks YMCMB dominates the Game. Ok T.I has sold more than all of YMCMB artists combined ok so stfu.

    20. YMCMB STRAIGHT KILLIN THE GAME AND ALL THESE WACK ASS NIGGAS!! C4 IS DOUBLE PLAT.. TAKE CARE IS DOING IT’S THING RIGHT NOW ANOTHER MASTERPIECE!! TYGA & STUNNA COMING SOON!!! YOUNG MOOOOOOOOOOLAHHHHH BABY!!! FUCK COCK NATION AND GAY-Z….

    21. AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH WAYNE IS SOOOOOOOO AMAZING AND GREAT!!! HIS MUSIC CHANGED MY LIFE!! WHEN I WAS CLOSE TO THE EDGE WAYNE’S MUSIC PULLED ME BACK AND MADE ME APPRECIATE LIFE!! THANK YOU DWAYNE MICHAEL CARTER THANK YOU SO MUCH.. 😀

      1. I’m not a huge Wayne fan nor do I believe that he sold that many records, I truly believe that YMCMB and Birdman bought at least 500,000 copies the first week, and I know people are going to say why would they do that and that would be hustling backwards because Birdman said it, but birdman also said that they make $10 per album,when a cd comes out the first week it sales for $10 so actually they would lose no money in the process and they would gain recognition for sales, so it”s a win win….YADIG I feel you tho if Wayne changed your life when you were on the edge then you very well should feel the way you do about him, niggas act like they don’t remember when they were on the edge and their favorite rapper made a song that possibly saved their lives…you gotta respect that

      2. @Realhiphop Listen I’m no Wayne fan either, but first off CDs sell at like $17 (IDK where you are buying yours from) and secondly Wayne has a huge fanbase. I think Birdman might’ve bought 200k of them but over half of what it sold? Wayne had 2 hits along with all the fans from all his other releases. Does he deserve his sales? No. Did Birdman buy 500k? Probably not…

    22. Niggas say the dumbest shit lol. So let me get this straight niggas who don’t like this clown niggas bullshit are bitter, no female gettin,broke ass niggas. Nigga please. Alright I live in Denver met a couple nuggets players, bronco players, and even a couple rappers coming through town for concerts. And ya know what some of them niggas don’t fuck with wayneThey got money and hoes.and still know garbage is garbage

    23. So yadig why don’t niggas who got money and hoes dig this clown. nba and NFL niggas get more money most likely more pussy explain why the niggas I met still don’t like this nigga they have no reason to hate. Because no matter how much u make it look nice garbage. Fuck ymcmb and its followers fag

      1. SHUT UP HOMO… THE ART SPEAKS FOR ITSELF WAYNE PUT OUT AN INCREDIBLE ALBUM THAT ALSO SOLD VERY WELL UR JUST A BITTER ASS NIGGA WHO LISTENS TO GAY-Z

    24. AND YALL YOU FAGGOTS HATING, GUESS WHAT? i GOT A DOUBLE PLATINUM DICK IN MY MOUTH AND ASS. HAHA. THATS BETTER THAN YALL.

      1. Real Hip Hop does not exist.

        AT LEAST these people support their favorite artist, what are you bitter fucks doing who scream ”real Hip Hop” on every occasion? You guys don’t go out to support your favorite rappers.

      2. Real hip hop is hip hop that is either lyrical, substantial, creative (IN A GOOD WAY), or any of those combined. And its not that people don’t support the underground artists and thats why they aren’t selling, its because they are UNDERGROUND artists. Not many people know of them. I buy some underground albums..

    25. Art what art. When loyal fans. Not dickriders loyal fans say c4 sucked that means it sucks. Dick riders support it if its shitty anyway. I wonder how many of those 1,700,000 people bought c4 and asked themselves after listening to it wtf did I waste my mon@ey on? 1,200,000.

      1. Dont’ really matter does it. Money in the bank soon as they buy it. Stick with Watching the Throne not sell bitch.

    26. Wayne real hip hop lmao. Pac, and big are probably rolling in their graves now. Lil weezy Damn there destroyed hip hop. Yadig you don’t know shit about hip hop. I bet you were on no limits Dick before Wayne. Rocking a fake ass tank chain and shit. Than been on cash money since the fall of no limit. And been on baby’s and Wayne’s nuts since then. Typical 90s kid.

    27. we all know C4 lacks the substance of a great albulm and based off of music alone,1miillion plus ppl shud never buy this albulm but nonetheless, Wayne deserves it..He works (or atleast used to) harder than most rappers and gave his fans mixtapes upon mixtapes and albulms when artists barely can drop one albulm every two years. YMCMB is the hottest label in the game right now and much success goes to Wayne

      1. Yo summed it up nice. Personally I played the album once. I thought it was OK. A little poppy.

        But clearly Lil Wayne’s swag and work rate is undeniable.

        He puts in work for his fans and his artist. The label is definitely running the game at this point.

      2. Who cares if he used to work hard and who cares if he puts out releases regularly if they suck… Now i’m not flat out saying C4, Not a human being, Sorry 4 the wait, and Rebirth are trash, considering i’ve never listened to them, but why does it matter?

    28. We appreciate the work ethic but not the music. But i got to give it to wayne. This nigga brain washes more people than the government.

    29. Why don’t you niggas stop hating for a minute and give credit when credit is do. How many niggas you know thats been in the game since 97 that actually got better over time. Check Lil Wayne history, this nigga been doing this shit since the age of 15 and niggas that come in the game that early fall off by the time there 20. Bow Wow Lil Romeo and Soulja Boy for example.

    30. Why is he certified double platinum if he’s 300k away from 2 million sold? I don’t care if he shipped 2 million copies..

    31. DA REAL IS ON DA RISE IM FUCKIN ALL YOU GUYS IM EVEN GIVIN THEY ASS A MASSUAGE NOW THAT’S SOMETHIN DEY KKOW THEY KNOW THEY KNOW THEY KNOOOWWW..

      Ps.. I love you Aubrey “Drake”‘Graham

    32. Anonymous:

      Who cares if he used to work hard and who cares if he puts out releases regularly if they suck… Now i’m not flat out saying C4, Not a human being, Sorry 4 the wait, and Rebirth are trash, considering i’ve never listened to them, but why does it matter?
      +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
      LMMFAO! A “WHY DO I COME HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE WHEN I DON’T LISTEN TO THE MUSIC” COMMENT. WHY ARE YOU HERE, TO READ ABOUT WAYNE AND LOOK AT PICTURES OF HIM? SMHLMAO

    33. to be honest guys, im not trolling, i really just like lil wayne. and find him attractive. dont like not music though, some call me gay, but i call myself a hardcore fan

      1. You fake!!!!!!! I’m the realest stfu stop fakin ma name bitch YMCMB yMCbMyMvKvNyKcMbY?’!!!!!!!!!!!!! little Wayne rulzzzzzzzzzzzah!!! PLATINUM BITCH

    34. Guys Why are those YMCMB dickriders happy for 2 million sales. Look in the Mirror I can name 5 rap artists dat have sold more than all ur artists in your fucking piece of shit label.

    35. as immortal technique (real hiphop) lyrics goes, cause if you go platinum, its got nothing to do with luck, it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck

      1. people aren’t stupid because they don’t have your same taste in music. get a life, you big ass spoiled kid.

    36. Sales do not equal talent and Baby purchases a majority of those so called albums to create the illusion that he has done a good job. The reason why Thriller sold so much because MJ actually had talent. Seems like the industry as well as the fans are backwards as fuck nowadays…

      1. Bitch Please! What the fuck does MJ got to do with Lil Wayne. You fuck boys try hard as shit to discredit somebody wit gay ass nonsense. With that dumb ass pic you got there i’m hating on your ass homo.

    37. No where close to being as good as Lowkeys Soundtrack to the Struggle but hey im like everyone else to and just follow whats popular…. not! Fuck this whack shit!

    38. They are getting money by disgrace to hip hop!!

      Fuck you Lil Wayne, birdman, nicki, YMCMB, rick Ross, gay-Z!!!!Eat my dick

      1. You want dudes to eat your dick? Damn son. You know there is help for child molestation victims like you. You should seek it.

    39. He can’t write, compose, produce, or even respect women. Hell, the motherfucker can’t even skate. I can honestly see no reason why this man remains to be so popular. Anyone mind giving me a hint?

      1. What does age have to do with anything? He may be getting up there, but he’s churning out better work than half of the clowns coming out today.

      1. Jay Z hot, Kanye West hot, Lil Wayne hot, Beyonce hot, Nicki Minaj hot, Drake hot and so is J Cole. On top of that, they all do business with each other, so your hate doesn’t matter. All of them are doing better than you, sucker.

    40. I just wish you people and other people would stop judging talent and good music by how much each artist is making. Before our time songs sold because they were beautiful and wonderful songs. Now a days for whatever reason people only want songs to dance to and jokes and punchlines in each song, the beautiful and wonderful songs of today are masked by the oversale of half assed music. They aren’y given a chance as much as others because of how much more complex they are and the amount of hard work that goes into them. Open your eyes people, yea Tha Carter IV went double platinum, sure I think Lil Wayne is a good artist, but also a bad and lazy artists because he gives in to doing a lot of half assed songs that people are willing to listen to because their friends do. So i challenge you people to start doing this. Go out and search around in the underground for a while. Find some people you’ve never heard of and listen to their shit, I Mean growing up I used to be one of those people that thought Tech N9ne was a scary dude. but then all of a sudden I come across some songs from his album K.O.D and immediately began to fall in love with his music. But thats just my example. Money doesn’t mean shit in the industry man, recognized hard work and talent. Not who has the nicest clothes.

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