Lil Wayne‘s comeback has been crowned with chart success.
The Hip-Hop titan uncaged long-awaited album ‘Tha Carter V’ last week – seven years after his last studio effort.
A legal wrangle with Birdman blocked the release of the project, but with the drama behind them the pathway was cleared for the set’s unleashing.
Still, a win was far from a given.
Indeed, beyond the ever-risky reality attached to elongated stints out of the spotlight, during Weezy’s time away the industry shape-shifted towards streaming-led consumption. A fact that’s proven fatal for some acts whose strongest metric was physical sales.
Fortunately for the rapper, he has nothing to worry about. Quite the contrary.
The final numbers are in and they await after the jump…