Other than his last three efforts, every album listed here has done no less than 9 million EAS. This is particularly impressive as the global superstar has released a total of 11 studio albums. However, we can see that Kamikaze has overtaken its predecessor, and Music to Be Murdered By is catching them both, which is a good sign for future releases.
These albums are also both fairly new, which means something when comparing them to albums that have been enjoying from 10 to 20 years of strong catalog sales. Eminem has always been very active with side projects which is perfectly revealed into the monstruous Orphan Album figure. The material he dropped outside of his solo albums sold the equivalent of over The career total of million equivalent album sales of Eminem in 22 years is simply outstanding.
The list is compiled in album equivalent sales generated by each song. Therefore, these figures are not merged units of singles formats. Eminem — Smack That [Orphan] — 2,, Coupled with his total sales, it translates into an ASR score of The ranking of all artists studied so far is available too at this link. To improve your navigation we created several amazing cross-artists lists posted inside the CSPC: Data Collector article. Click on it to see the full listing of all CSPC results compiled so far!
To put figures from this article into perspective, click on the images below to reach career breakdowns of similar artists:. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Wonder how much gap Drake will cover by But Eminem is great in streaming. So it will be tough to catch him.
I guess in end these 2 will be biggest selling rappers of all time. Eminem with new releases will be like at million plus. And Drake around to million plus and one day he will slow down too. Damn outsold every female artist expect Madonna. Even she … Read more ». I knew he was big but not this big. Kinda makes me really proud tbh. What lmao? As for Robbie Williams, Robbie has quite a healthy lead over Marshall, even more so if you were to include his work with Take That.
In fact, he must be one of the most successful artists ever in the UK, all things considered, with probably only members of The Beatles or Queen matching or beating his total sales.
That was clearly a typo. Not even sure why you brought it up. What is your problem? You should do some research, rather than just posting what you think is true. Yes, Eminem is more popular nowadays but he is not more … Read more ». No problem here lol. I know it was meant to be a joke, it was just really lame. English is hard. I am aware that there is a solid gap in raw albums sold between the two, but I assumed that the streaming difference would have closed it up.
Where is the angry and crazy part of … Read more ». I remind you that in the native land you were talking about Robbie Williams got a Brit icon awards, a uk music hall of fame, a Brit for outstanding contribution to music and the Brit awards for the best song of the last 25 years, he entered with four albums in the top 60 best-selling UK albums in history, her single Angels is ranked 80 in the top best-selling songs in history in the UK, her ,person knebworth gig sets the concert record largest outdoor in the UK, with 12 albums RW has placed 12 times number one in … Read more ».
I was just trying to help you out, with your English. Do you rely on global success by watching digital sales and streaming? Neither of them are dead, they both released albums in the 10s. The point of this website is to watch global success by evaluating the different formats that music is consumed on and weighing their value appropriately. That includes digitals and streams, so yes. I really am not trying to discredit his success. This is fundamentally wrong. This statement is quite ridiculous considering they have solid sales pretty much everywhere including multiple UK million sellers.
In my opinion a very global artist is simply someone which sells well all over the world regardless of their US or overall total. In … Read more ». Well spoken! The whole thing is pathetic. I am not here to support my favourite artists or castigate artists I am not so keen on or turn the whole thing into some kind of competition.
The … Read more ». Part of the analysis is to check how the sales are spread worldwide. But I agree you want to stay away from fan claims. My problem is, these discussions are not strictly based on whether or not acts are globally or locally popular but based on trying to put artists down or to assume some kind of superiority.
All of the analysis is to check worldwide sales, unless it is specific to a certain territory, its not for ammunition in these petty arguments and why does it even matter, what matters is total sales, not really … Read more ».
I already agreed with you about fan claims and I think the data on this website can stand the test of those claims. But this website probably also benefits from fans of any artist visiting here.
Not that one is per se better than the other, but to understand, compare and contrast? Have you ever seen an unsuccessful singer in the United States making great sales around the world? Robbie Williams has achieved unmatched records in the world, such as the highest sales in Europe in history for a singer at the age of 45, 2 … Read more ».
In theory it should be very possible to do well in most places without doing well in the US. Hitting it big there is very good publicity for an artist globally, especially now in with the internet and all.
Thing is, a lot of your points were pretty random, and actually the whole comparison is random. Yes that person replied to you with the incorrect point about the UK, which we all agree was incorrect, but YOU were the one who raised the nonsensical comparison between 2 vastly different artists of different genres who have literally NOTHING to do with each other in the first place, so lets not pretend otherwise now… You were ALSO the one who tried to … Read more ».
In conclusion, I … Read more ». Eminem is way more global than and remembered than rw. Who might have got good numbers outside usa. But eminem beat him with streams and downloads outside usa too and eminem sold well over 50 million albums outside north america too. And has better distribution in every continent. WHEN eminem destroys that guy there. Eminem is way more global bcoz his success is in every inhabitable continent.
Whereas Rw has advantage of being european but failed in america. Eminem succeeded in … Read more ». Eminem outsold rw in 3 of the continents tracked here.
North america, australia, asia. Hence Eminem stays way more global. Wow, seriously? Eminem is pretty even in sales in the UK to Robbie Williams and is the most successful act in the last 40 years. Notify of. Inline Feedbacks. Last edited 1 month ago by Eminemfan.
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The song criticized President George W. Bush as "This weapon of mass destruction that we call our president", with lyrics including "Fuck Bush".
When they break in, it is learned that they are there to register to vote; the video ends with "VOTE Tuesday November 2". After Bush's reelection, the video's ending was changed to Eminem and the protesters invading the White House during a speech by the president. In , industry insiders speculated that Eminem was considering ending his rapping career after six years and several Multi-Platinum albums.
Rumors began early in the year about a double album to be released late that year, entitled The Funeral;[72] the greatest hits album, entitled Curtain Call: The Hits, was released in December. In July the Detroit Free Press reported a possible final bow for Eminem as a solo performer, quoting members of his inner circle as saying that he would embrace the roles of producer and label executive. Denying that he was retiring, he suggested he would take a break as an artist: "I'm at a point in my life right now where I feel like I don't know where my career is going This is the reason that we called it 'Curtain Call' because this could be the final thing.
We don't know. Eminem and Proof performing in Proof's death in was one of the factors that caused Eminem to fall into to depression during his five-year hiatus. In August he canceled the European leg of the tour, later announcing that he had entered drug rehabilitation for treatment of a "dependency on sleep medication". In September , Eminem called New York radio station WQHT during an interview with 50 Cent, saying that he was "in limbo" and "debating" about when or if he would release another album: "I'm always working — I'm always in the studio.
It feels good right now, the energy of the label. For a while, I didn't want to go back to the studio I went through some personal things. I'm coming out of those personal things [and] it feels good. You know, the more I keep producing the better it seems like I get 'cause I just start knowing stuff. Dre will end up producing the majority of the tracks on 'Relapse'. We are up to our old mischievous ways Eminem onstage in a white shirt, gray jacket and baseball cap Eminem performing with D12 in May According to a March 5, press release, Eminem would release two new albums that year.
Relapse, the first, was released on May 19; its first single and music video, "We Made You", had been released on April 7. It sold more than five million copies worldwide[89]. He landed buttocks-first on Eminem, who stormed out of the ceremony; three days later, Eminem said that the stunt had been staged. On November 19, he announced on his website that Relapse: Refill would be released on December The album was a re-release of Relapse with seven bonus tracks, including "Forever" and "Taking My Ball".
Eminem described the CD:. I want to deliver more material for the fans this year like I originally planned Hopefully, these tracks on The Refill will tide the fans over until we put out Relapse 2 next year I got back in with Dre and then a few more producers, including Just Blaze, and went in a completely different direction which made me start from scratch.
The new tracks started to sound very different than the tracks I originally intended to be on Relapse 2, but I still want the other stuff to be heard. Although his followers thought he was not releasing an album, he had changed its title to Recovery and confirmed this by tweeting "RECOVERY" with a link to his website.
He said:. I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year. But as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album. The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title. His seventh album was released on June Recovery remained atop the Billboard chart for five consecutive weeks of a seven-week total. Billboard reported that it was the bestselling album of , making Eminem the first artist in Nielsen SoundScan history with two year-end bestselling albums.
As of November 21, , the album had US sales of three million copies. B and Keyshia Cole. Later that year, he performed at the Activison E3 concert. The first two concerts quickly sold out, prompting an additional show in each city. Unlike the original, Rihanna is the lead vocalist and it is sung from the female perspective. Dre and Skylar Grey. According to a press release, the first single from Eminem's eighth album would be released soon.
Its standard version had 16 tracks, and the deluxe version included a second disc with five additional tracks. The Marshall Mathers LP 2 was Eminem's seventh album to debut atop the Billboard , and had the year's second-largest first-week sales. The first American artist with seven consecutive UK number-one albums, he is tied with The Beatles for second place for the most consecutive chart-topping UK albums.
Eminem performs at the Concert for Valor in Washington, D. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard chart, with first-week sales of , copies in the United States. The Official Eminem Box Set, a career-spanning, disc vinyl box set, was released on March 12, Eminem is the executive producer of the soundtrack on the sports drama Southpaw, with Shady Records.
The first single from the soundtrack called 'Phenomenal' was released on June 2, The interview streamed online on the Beats 1 radio on [] July 1, Eminem appeared on the public access show Only in Monroe, produced in Monroe, Michigan, and was interviewed by guest host Stephen Colbert for an episode that aired July 1, In the episode Eminem sang snippets of Bob Seger songs at Colbert's prompting and briefly discussed Southpaw.
In the song, Eminem calls the newly elected President Donald Trump a "bitch", and also raps about raping conservative social and political commentator Ann Coulter, who is a Trump supporter, with a variety of foreign objects. Coulter responded to the lyrics, stating, "I think it's unfortunate that the left, from Berkeley to Eminem with his rap songs, has normalized violence against women, as Eminem has done.
Eminem performing in Oslo, Norway in Starting in late October, Eminem and Paul Rosenberg began teasing what fans speculated was the title of a new album titled Revival, in the form of advertisements for a fake medication of the same name. Dre posted a video confirming the album's release date as December 15, On January 5, , the second single "River" was released, which featured Ed Sheeran. As a result, he became the first musical act to have eight entries in a row debut atop the chart.
In , an extended edition of "Nowhere Fast" with Kehlani and a remix of "Chloraseptic" featuring 2 Chainz and Phresher were released from Revival. Alter egos Eminem uses alter egos in his songs for different rapping styles and subject matter.
In this persona, his songs are violent and dark, with a comic twist. Eminem is considered unusual in structuring his songs around the lyrics, rather than writing to beats. He said about producing his own music, "Sometimes, I may get something in my head, like an idea or the mood of something that I would want, and I'm not always gonna get that by going through different tracks that other people have made.
They don't know what's in my head. I think maybe it helps, a little bit, with diversity, the sound of it, but also, I would get something in my head and want to be able to lay down that idea from scratch. Comparisons with other artists As a white performer prominent in a genre influenced by black artists, Eminem has been compared, much to his chagrin,[] to Elvis Presley,[] and as a lyricist and as aforementioned to Bob Dylan. Eminem and Christian hip hop artist KJ have been compared to each other, with KJ called his "Christian counterpart".
Personal life Family Eminem has been scrutinized, as a rapper and personally. Their daughter Hailie was born on December 25, The two were married in and divorced in Although Eminem told Rolling Stone in , "I would rather have a baby through my penis than get married again", he and Kim briefly remarried in January He filed for divorce in early April,[] agreeing to joint custody of Hailie.
He pleaded guilty to possession of a concealed weapon and assault, and received two years' probation; however, Guerra's assault charge was dropped as part of the plea agreement. Although Bailey admitted picking on Eminem in school, he said he merely "bumped" him and gave him a "little shove". The lawsuit was dismissed on October 20, ; Judge Deborah Servitto, who wrote a portion of her opinion in rap-like rhyming verse, ruled that it was clear to the public that the lyrics were exaggerated.
Dre, claiming that the beat for "Kill You" was taken from his instrumental "Pulsion". Loussier demanded that sales of The Marshall Mathers LP be halted, and any remaining copies destroyed.
President George W. Bush[] in "We As Americans" an unreleased bootleg at the time , with the lyrics: "Fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents. I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said but I set precedents. In , Eminem was accused of assaulting Miad Jarbou, a resident of Royal Oak, Michigan, in the bathroom of a Detroit strip club, but was never charged. Productions, LLC v. Aftermath Records that F. Productions and Eminem were owed a royalty of 50 percent of Aftermath's net revenue from licensing his recordings to companies such as Apple, Sprint Corporation, Nextel Communications, Cingular and T-Mobile.
The group claims that Eminem did not receive permission to use the sample, nor did he credit or compensate them. Health issues Eminem has spoken publicly about his addiction to prescription drugs, including Vicodin, Ambien and Valium. An associate gave him an Ambien tablet which "knocked [him] out", encouraging him to obtain a prescription. This was Eminem's first experience of drug addiction, which would affect him for several years. Near the end of production on Encore, he would "just go into the studio and goof off [with] a pocketful of pills".
Eminem began taking the drugs to "feel normal", taking a "ridiculous amount [ Vicodin, maybe 30". The drugs would put him to sleep for no more than two hours, after which he would take more. Eminem's weight increased to pounds kg , and he was regularly eating fast food: "The kids behind the counter knew me — it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself.
It was sad". Eminem became less recognizable due to his weight gain, and once overheard two teenagers arguing about whether or not it was him: "Eminem ain't fat. In December , Eminem was hospitalized after a methadone overdose. He had first bought from a dealer who had told him it was "just like Vicodin, and easier on [your] liver".
He continued to buy more until he collapsed in his bathroom one night and was rushed to the hospital. Doctors there told him he had ingested the equivalent of four bags of heroin and was "about two hours from dying".
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