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Eminem Breaks Multiple Records Simultaneously by mcbhydemi: 12:11pm On Jul 02, 2010 |
Eminem's Recovery enters The Billboard 200 at #1 with first-week sales of 741,000.That's the biggest one-week sales tally since AC/DC's Black Ice stormed on to the chart with sales of 784,000 in October 2008. Recovery is Eminem's fourth album to achieve weekly sales north of 700K. It follows The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show and Encore. Eminem is the first artist in Nielsen/SoundScan history (which dates to 1991) to top the 700K plateau in weekly sales with four albums. Runner-up Garth Brooks topped that mark with three albums: The Hits, Sevens and Double Live. Recovery sold substantially more copies in its first week than Eminem's last album, Relapse, which opened with sales of 608K in June 2009. In just one week, Recovery is already #8 for the year-to-date. Recovery is Eminem's sixth #1 album. Among rappers, only Jay-Z has had as many or more #1 albums (11). What's more, Recovery is Eminem's sixth consecutive album to reach #1. That's the longest string of consecutive #1 albums (in which every charted album made #1) since the Beatles had eight in a row from Beatles VI in 1965 to the so-called White Album in 1968. (Eminem had seven of the 22 tracks on Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, which peaked at #2 in 2006, but that was marketed as a Various Artists album.) This week's hefty total for Recovery pushes Eminem from #10 to #9 on Nielsen/SoundScan's running list of the best-selling album artists in its history. (He pushes ahead of Pink Floyd on this list, which reflects sales from 1991 to 2010.) Eminem has sold 36,519,000 albums, which makes him the top rapper on the list. He is way ahead of Jay-Z, who is #27 overall with sales of 27,888,000 albums. Recovery sold 255,000 digital copies. Only one album has ever sold more digital copies in one week. That's Coldplay's Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends , which sold 288,000 digital copies in its first week in June 2008. Eminem is also breaking records on the digital song front. "Love The Way You Lie," Eminem's collabo with Rihanna, sold 338,000 copies this week. It's Eminem's third song to achieve one-week sales of 300K. "Crack A Bottle," his all-star collaboration with Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, opened with sales of 418,000 in February 2009. "Not Afraid" opened with sales of 379,000 in May. Eminem is the only artist who has topped 300K in weekly sales with three songs. Flo Rida, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift have each topped 300K with two songs. "Love The Way You Lie" enters Hot Digital Songs at #1. It enters the Hot 100 at #2, behind "California Gurls" by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg, which logs its fourth week on top. "Love The Way You Lie" may yet reach the top spot. It would be Eminem's third #1 on the Hot 100 in 18 months, following "Crack A Bottle" and "Not Afraid." This is noteworthy because in his first 10 years of recording, Eminem notched just one #1, 2002's monster hit "Lose Yourself." This would be the second time that Rihanna is featured on a #1 hit by a rap star. She was featured on T.I.'s 2008 smash "Live Your Life." Eminem's 741K debut comes on the heels of Drake's 447K bow last week. This marks the first time that albums have debuted with sales north of 400,000 in back-to-back weeks since November and December 2008, when Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Kanye West and Britney Spears all opened with sales of 400K or more in successive weeks. T-Pain recently told MTV.com, "Ain't nobody selling records unless you Susan Boyle." His one-liner was so provocative it was even picked up in TIME Magazine. While T-Pain was moaning about soft sales, Drake and Eminem were busy making themselves exceptions to the overall trend. Good for them. Recovery also debuts at #1 in the U.K. this week. It sold nearly 140K in that market, which constitutes the best-one tally in the U.K. so far this year. It's Eminem's sixth straight album to hit #1 in the U.K. Eminem has sold more than 7.5 million albums in the U.K. Pop Quiz: Eminem's only album to fall short of #1 was his 1999 debut, The Slim Shady LP, which logged three weeks at #2. Name the two albums that blocked it from the top spot. Answer below. The back-to-back albums Relapse and Recovery mark the second time that Eminem has told a story in the titles of successive albums. He did the same thing with The Eminem Show, Encore and Curtain Call: The Hits. Kanye West picked up on this trick with the titles of his successive albums The College Dropout, Late Registration and Graduation. If Recovery winds up in Nielsen/ SoundScan's top 10 for 2010 (which it almost certainly will), this will be the fifth year that Eminem has had an album in research firm's year-end top 10. The Marshall Mathers LP was the #2 seller of 2000, The Eminem Show was the #1 seller of 2002, Encore was the #3 seller of 2004, and Relapse was the #8 seller of 2009. Eminem has won the Grammy for Best Rap Album four times, more than any other artist. He'll probably be in the running again this year when the nominations are announced at the end of the year. But the competition this year is fierce. Jay- Z's The Blueprint 3 and Drake's Thank Me Later are also front- runners. Ludacris' Battle Of The Sexes and B.o.B's B.o.B Presents The Adventures Of Bobby Ray are also in the mix. Who will take home the trophy? Discuss amongst yourselves. The Fine Print: Because acts sometimes release oddities that have no chance of hitting #1, let me add a few names to the discussion in the third paragraph. Elton John had seven consecutive #1 albums from 1972 to 1975 if you discount a reissue of his debut album. Jay-Z has hit #1 with his last seven albums if you discount the three-CD The Blueprint: Collector's Edition and reboots of two albums. And Michael Jackson had six straight #1 albums if you discount a few Motown repackages and a couple of HIStory knock-offs and give him credit for Number Ones being a #1 album. |
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