As part of the heavy promotion surrounding Relapse, the rapper hosted an album release party in Detroit on May 19th, and two songs from the performance will air on Jimmy Kimmel Live! tomorrow night. According to, EmРІР‚в„ўs last five albums alone have combined for roughly 33.3 million in sales just in the United States, making the rapper the bestselling artist in hip-hop. Relapse also isnРІР‚в„ўt within the same ballpark of the 1.76 million copies The Marshall Mathers LP sold in the pre-leak/pre-recession days of May 2000. Additionally, EminemРІР‚в„ўs Curtain Call: The Hits and the 8 Mile soundtrack also reached Number One.Р”В®ven though RelapseРІР‚Вs expected sales numbers are impressive, they donРІР‚в„ўt come close to the 711,000 copies 2004РІР‚в„ўs Encore sold in a truncated sales week after the release date was pushed up four days to combat that albumРІР‚в„ўs leak. But his five consequent albums all reached Number One, a feat that Marshall Mathers will likely accomplish for a sixth consecutive time when his Relapse 2 is released later this year.

Of EmРІР‚в„ўs six officially released albums (weРІР‚в„ўre not counting the unearthed Infinite) only his debut album The Slim Shady LP failed to reach the top spot, settling for Number Two in 1999. Even if Relapse merely surpasses 600K, the album will easily be the bestselling for a debuting album this year, and the highest sales week since AC/DC moved 784,000 copies of Black Ice in October 2008, reports. Throughout our list of his 50 essential songs (originally published in 2017 and updated on the eve of his 2022 Super Bowl appearance), Eminem fearlessly displays that devotion to task and proves why heРІР‚в„ўs been one of pop musicРІР‚в„ўs most fascinating, complex characters.Early sales estimates predict EminemРІР‚в„ўs Relapse will capture his fifth consecutive Number One on the charts next week with an astounding - for this economy, anyway - 650,000 copies sold. But for a poor, white, emotionally unstable MC to excel in hip-hop and not be viewed as a villainous buffoon, he must possess prodigious artistic gifts and a real commitment to personal transparency. HeРІР‚в„ўs also, on occasion, regurgitating grotesque sexist, homophobic stereotypes. When Eminem raps about violent, tragicomic death, he is furthering a grand murder-ballad tradition in folk and blues music. But spend serious time with EminemРІР‚в„ўs entire catalogue and you quickly realize that those two sides of his music are inextricable, one always informing the other. They eschew the more viciously somber, rock-leaning character studies helmed by Em and his longtime Detroit collaborators Jeff and Mark Bass. Some fans celebrate only the funny РІР‚СљSlim Shady,РІР‚Сњ when the musical comedy is quality controlled by executive producer Dr.

ItРІР‚в„ўs just now heРІР‚в„ўs finding it harder to joke about the darkness that has always fueled his best work.

Just listen to the vulnerability and self-doubt on his recent single РІР‚Сљ Walk on Water.РІР‚Сњ The Detroit rapper continues to make art about how people are driven crazy by weakness and lack. He had chart topping singles covering a span of 17 years. His last appearance in the charts was 2015. On the Clock Report: Jay-Z in No Rush to Complete The Blueprint 3, Lil Wayne Next Studio LP to be Rock Album Entitled Rebirth, 50 Cent States that EminemРІР‚в„ўs Relapse is Just About Done. Though heРІР‚в„ўs been a multiplatinum, Grammy-winning star for over 20 years, Eminem is not an unequivocally triumphant figure, either within pop music or within his own mind. Eminem was around 27 years old when his first singled charted.

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