The achievement of Carter is particularly impressive as it is available at all digital retailers and physical, not just iTunes. In comparison, the throne was sold exclusively through iTunes for the first four days of publication.

Lil Wayne ‘Tha Carter IV’ outperform ‘Watch the Throne’ in the first week of sales

Less than three weeks after the U.S. iTunes Store is one week album sales record was broken by Jay-Z and Kanye West View the throne, was broken again - by Lil Wayne Tha Carter IV again.

In addition, Carter IV is on track to a set of starting the first week more than 850,000 copies - digital and physical sales combined - according to industry predictions.

Carter III is one of the 17 albums have sold one million or more in a week since SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. Carter IV, follows a pair of powered two groups of Wayne in 2010: the rebirth (No 2) and I’m not a human being (1). They started with 176,000 and 110,000 copies respectively.

The highly anticipated album broke Jay-Z and Kanye West numbers, after only four days on the market.

If Carter IV moves 850,000 or more, will be immediately marked the largest sales week for an album of hip-hop (or by a male artist), his Carter III bowed with 1.01 million June 28, 2008 Chart second Nielsen SoundScan.