Even though Lil Wayne‘s Tha Carter IV album sold just under one million copies in the first week, the album did still go platinum worldwide by selling over 1.03 million! The 964,000 copies Billboard counted are just sales from the US. We already know C4 debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart, but it has also topped the United World Chart too, which is another great accomplishment for Weezy. This album marks Wayne‘s second highest first week sales behind Tha Carter III that sold 1.05 million in 2008.

Tunechi just keeps on winning though, because now Billboard have reported that Tune has 12 songs simultaneously charting on the Billboard Hot 100! Only The Beatles have topped this achievement, having placed 14 songs on the Hot 100 in 1964.

14 – How To Love | 16 – Mirror featuring Bruno Mars | 24 – I’m On One with DJ Khaled featuring Drake and Rick Ross | 26 – Motivation with Kelly Rowland | 33 – Blunt Blowin’ | 40 – She Will featuring Drake | 52 – Megaman | 79 – It’s Good featuring Jadakiss and Drake | 84 – How To Hate featuring T-Pain | 90 – Nightmares Of The Bottom | 94 – President Carter | 95 – So Special featuring John Legend

According to Billboard, music industry forecasters have suggested that Lil Wayne‘s Tha Carter IV album will sell between 850,000 – 900,000 copies in the first week. Even though these numbers are more than great, I still think Wayne will get them 1 million sales this week! Also, has anyone else noticed that the haters are getting worried and are already looking for excuses, such as: “Oh, Birdman must be buying 500,000 copies”

After the jump, you can read Mack Maine‘s thoughts on the first week sales of C4:

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Drake: “But I could never love her cause to her I’m just a rapper, and soon she’ll have met another”
Lil Wayne: “I fucked that bitch!”  

Remember back during Memorial Day Weekend in May when Drake brought out Lil Wayne at the Rehab Pool Party in Las Vegas Well some dope footage of the two performing “Miss Me” has just surfaced on the net. You can check out the footage above, and view some pics here and here!

After the jump, you can check out a photo of Tunechi on a billboard in Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard (most popular street in Hollywood) that Detail spotted. Detail sent the photo to Weezy who was really happy about it and told Detail: “Dats real!!! My nigga thank you a billion for ‘How To Love’”.

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Lil Wayne is getting ready to start his own clothing line, which will be called Rebirth, the same title of his experimental 2010 album. Weezy told XXL Magazine in their July/August 2011 issue that is available on newsstands now, he wants to jump into the fashion business:

“I just figure that I… I’m funky,” he explained. “I got that from my stylist, Marisa. I’m funky, like she say. I wear a whole buncha items at one time, you know what I mean? I be figuring you at least want one of them items. Like, ‘Damn, I’d love to have that safety pin he got on,’ you know what I mean? Anything. I got on these types of shoes, these shorts, this sweater… A year from now, I want all these items to be mine. Rebirth. I want—I just figure people want to be funky like me, so I got my clothing line.”

Hit the jump to hear what Cortez Bryant recently told Billboard about Tunechi‘s Tha Carter IV album, hitting stores on August 29th!

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Billboard caught up with Lil Wayne backstage at their 2011 Music Awards show for a 2 minute interview. They speak on his performance at the show, being in Fergie’s dressing room, the Billboard Music Awards being back on air, and Mary J. Blige.

Spotted at MissInfo.