Lil Wayne Has Top Album of 2008

Soundscan reports that Lil Wayne sold the most records in 2008. His album Tha Carter III sold 2.8 million copies. However, this is the first time that the top selling album of the year has sold under 3 million. Wayne even beat out Coldplay, Kid Rock, Taylor Swift, and AC/DC in 2008.

Beyonce has sold about 1.5 copies of her album I Am...Sasha Fierce, even beating out Mariah Carey, Usher, Ne-Yo, who released their albums earlier during the year. I really wonder if Beyonce would've released her album earlier, if she would've taken that top spot? It's hard to say if she would've been able to pull it off or not, but she definitely wouldn't have fallen too far behind Lil Wayne. If you really think about it, her album was just released in November and is already over that platinum mark so she's doing pretty good. On the hand, Wayne did sell a million records during his debut week and Beyonce sold about 500,000 copies. I think that's a good indicator of what would've happened in that instance. T.I. even had a good year with his album Paper Trail and a top single at that with "Live Your Life" ft. Rihanna.

Some of you may ask what's up with Lil Wayne in 2009? It seems that he has plans to release Tha Carter III: The Rebirth this year. In an interview last year with MTV, Lil Wayne stated:

"We want Carter IV to be what everybody wants it to be. This is something brand-new, so we don't want it to be some experimental thing, 'cause some people are not gonna like this. I don't want them to not like Tha Carter IV. But I do have an album coming soon, very soon, and it's gonna be called ... Tha Carter III: The Rebirth. The birth of a new beginning."

There are talks that Pharrell, DJ Nasty, Play-N-SKillz, Cool and Dre, and Street Runner are lined up for the project. In addition, Ludacris is rumored to be appearing on the album. There were talks that Lil Wayne was also going to release an album with T-Pain this year, but I am not sure if that's still going happen or not. The duo was supposed to call themselves T-Wayne and record the album, but talks about that album has died down so I am not sure if that project will become a reality. Either way it goes, Lil Wayne definitely did damage in 2008 and I am wondering if he can pull it off again with his next album. I guess we will have to see.

What do you think?