Lil Wayne Beat Jay Z and Kanye West for 'Most records sold in one week via iTunes'
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11. Lil Wayne Beat Jay Z and Kanye West for 'Most records sold in one week via iTunes'
'Ye and Hov's collaborative album was released on the iTunes Store five days before it was released in physical format and it quickly broke Coldplay's record for most albums sold in one week on the online retailer, selling 290,000 copies on iTunes alone. Unfortunately for them, the throne was overtaken by Lil Wayne 21 days later when he released Tha Carter IV and it sold 10,000 copies more. It held that record, until Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV was released twenty-one days later, selling only 10,