Years of delays apparently didn’t affect the demand for Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V. Weezy’s long-awaited album, which dropped last Friday (September 28), is poised to achieve the third largest streaming week in history.
According to Billboard, industry forecasters are expecting Tha Carter V to rack up more than 400 million on-demand audio streams in the U.S. in its opening week. If correct, Wayne would only trail Drake’s Scorpion (749.5 million streams) and Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys (431.3 million) for the most first-week streams.
Regardless of what the final number is, Weezy’s Tha Carter V is expected to be No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Forecasters are anticipating over 450,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending on October 4.
If Wayne hits the top of the chart again, it will be his first time since 2011 when he accomplished the feat with Tha Carter IV. He has also reached No. 1 with 2010’s I Am Not A Human Being and 2008’s Tha Carter III.
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Good shit weezy! I think this album was overhyped to alot of people, but I would say wayne showed the most growth on this project. Throwing his mom on the intro, giving a platform to his daughter, and Ex BM Niveah is a win for the culture. I would of liked some 808s, a Jay Z, Dr. Dre, Kanye Feature / beats but it is what it is. He definitely put out a solid body of work for the old heads and new school hip hop junkies to enjoy.
nah bruh #MAGA
Yeah, Wayne matured from 8 years old mentally to 12 years old on this album. This degenerate has been doing heavy drugs daily since he was at least 14. I feel bad for anyone that listens to this dude and is impressed, you probably didn’t do well in school.
Came through drip drip …. ice!! Let’s go Wayne . Putting cardi to shame and all the other hot rappers out right now, let’s gooooo
Wayne put out yet another hot pile of garbage. This guy contributed to the dumbing down of hip hop more than anybody else. You can thank Lil Wayne for all of the mumble rappers. Most overrated rapper alive.
Man. I am do proud of Wayne for delivering this album. After all the health scares and chatter of him falling off. Whatever I thought this album was gonna be, is nothing to what he delivered. Made me a fan again, got talkin top 5 dead or alive again.
Wayne has done nothing but held hip hop back for more than a decade. He literally inspired the mumble rap movement and has had absolutely no substance worth mentioning on any album for over half of his career at this point. But hey I guess that’s what sells these days. As long as theres dumb people in this world, Drake and Wayne will continue to sell albums.
Burn. Some people prefer music with no substance and if they look for substance they would rather look at a book or listen to a podcast.
People don’t care about subtance until it’s Eminem releasing an album. Then all of a sudden people become music experts and it’s all about subtance lmfao.
What people? Girls going to the club? Lol outta here with that.
You would be surprised. A lot of people don’t like awareness or consciousness in their music because they want to have a certain vibe. Not just girls. Every one doesn’t think like you unless you are a narcissist. I was speaking to a co worker and he was telling me that-he didn’t like conscious rap or music with awareness because he wanted to have a certain vibe when listening to music. He would rather get information like that from podcast and book plus he called a lot of these so-called new conscious rappers fake woke because they always tell the obvious In their music instead of telling their audience something new or educational. I disagreed because he tried to call Lupe a fake woke rapper. He even said Kendrick was one. I could see him saying J.Cole is one but atleast he’s saying something in his music. In my opinion, I like music with awareness and consciousness. I enjoyed the new Lupe album. My co worker is just a blipster. He even admitted at-the end of the conversation that these new conscious rappers are boring and that-he like Immortal Technique because he raps about things that he has to google.
I don’t mind a rap album with little to no substance when the wordplay and lyricism is there. There are moments in this album where it’s there. I just don’t think there’s enough skill to justify all of the filler that has been in Wayne’s career. He has said a whole lot of nothing rarely in any clever way to respect him. Just my two cents.
Ya mans is fake literate, and real sleep
Emmett Till
Happy he released it, happy he’s happy, but the album is weak. 3, maybe 4 tolerable songs, that’s it. Standard Wayne release.
This album is dope. Flow, concepts, wordplay. Its all here. Glad hes doing numbers.
Album is a let down.
Daytona is better then every album your named
Album trash ?
Yo this C5 album is pretty good. I give it a solid 4/5. Wayne wordplay is still top notch
I really enjoyed it. Only thing I’d say he needs to drop the autotune all together, his status is too high to be sounding like he’s on the tpain app. Hittaz is ?????