Okay so this post should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me. If there is one performer that i am passionate about its Lil Wayne. He is of course the "bets rapper alive", and has been my favorite since the 500 degrees days when he was just a wee lad. This is going to my attempt to prove that Lil Wayne and his album Tha Carter III were robber of the best album award at the Grammy's this year.
Lets start with the obvious place the beginning. In their respective first weeks in release Raising Sand managed a very respectable 112,000 copies sold. However it was crushed be The giant Cater III's 1,005,545 albums sold in just a week, in fact Wayne managed over 400,000 on day one alone.
Next lets look at the Billboard charts which most music connoisseurs would agree is probably the most thorough and possibly informed source for information on the music industry.
Tha Carter II peaked on the chart at of course #1, somehow the "top album of the year" Raising Sand never even managed to be the top album of the week, peaking at #2.
On the Billboard year end chart for 2008 Tha Carter III was #2 and Raising Sand was absent from the top 20. For digital downloads, a staple of todays music industry Tha Carter III was #4 and yet again Raising Sand was absent from the top 20. As far as singles go, That Carter III had 4 charting singles in 2008 with Lollipop coming in at #4 for the year, whereas yet again Raising Sand dissapointed with guess how many.... zero songs on the chart.
My final argument, which may be the best one that I have, my ace in the hole if you will is this. Raising Sand should not have even been eligible to win this album. It was released in 2007 and even had a single that won best pop collaboration at the 2007 Grammys. How could it be that an album that charted no singles and never made the top 20 for album sales the entire year managed to steal the Grammy from the album that sold the most and charted the most singles for the year. This is a travesty and and outrage and I am very dissapointed in the Grammy's for allowing such a disgrace to occur. If I had gotten robbed like that smoke would be rolling from my mouth as well Weezy! CaptainSycamore
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ReplyDelete"How could it be that an album that charted no singles and never made the top 20 for album sales the entire year managed to steal the Grammy from the album that sold the most and charted the most singles for the year?"
Answer: Because the fat bastards that run the Grammys are only interested in one thing... squeezing money from middle American households.
A better poll question would have been: Which of these albums is a white, middle-aged, American woman more likely to buy for her son's birthday? Raising Sand or Tha Carter III?
Answer: Neither, because nobody buys music anymore and the kid probably already downloaded Tha Carter III. Instead, she will buy toilet paper and Diet Coke from Wal-Mart because our economy is so bad and her husband was just laid off.