Lil Wayne's 'Tha Carter III' crushes competition

June 18, 2008 Sales for "Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne's first No. 1 on the Billboard 200, were helped along by several of the rapper's new singles, including the Hot 100-topping "Lollipop" featuring Static Major. No album in 2006 sold as many as 800,000 copies in a single frame, and the largest sales week since "The Massacre" belonged to Kanye West's "Graduation," which netted an opener of 957,000 copies last year when it hit stores on Sept. 11. Plies' "Definition of Real" (Big Gates/Slip-N-Slide) sold 215,000 to debut at No. 2, the same position his 2007 album "The Real Testament" achieved.

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