By The Numbers

June 11th, 2008 // 2 Comments

AP07090903011.jpgLil Wayne’s Tha Carter III will, barring any unforeseen disasters, be next week’s No. 1 album, but it won’t debut in the top spot: Enough record stores broke street date on the album to result in it scanning 3,900 copies and entering this week’s SoundScan charts at No. 167, where it’s tied with the Santogold album and just ahead of Soulja Boy. There is something so sweetly old-school about both the street-date violations and the maybe-seven-figure first-week tallies that it’s making me choke up a bit!


  1. Rob Murphy

    Soulja Boy moved over 3K units last week?

    I am afraid for the future of humanity.

  2. Maura Johnston

    @Rob Murphy: YAHH TRICK YAHH

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