It’s expected to sell 700,000 to 800,000 additional copies this week.Īn anticipated 10-day total of 1.4 million to 1.5 million is “a little bit slower” than what “The Eminem Show” did over roughly the same period in 2002, says Billboard’s director of charts, Geoff Mayfield. “Encore” went on sale ahead of schedule to combat piracy and Internet downloading and sold 711,000 copies in barely half a week in stores, easily debuting at No. Sales of his 1999 debut album, “The Slim Shady LP,” stands at 4.9 million, while the soundtrack to the quasi-autobiographical 2002 film “8 Mile” is slightly behind that at 4.7 million. A question further down the road is whether it will make him the first artist to place three albums among the Top 20 bestsellers of the Nielsen SoundScan era, an achievement requiring sales above 9 million copies in the United States.Įminem made it with his 2002 album, “The Eminem Show,” (9.3 million) and 2000’s “The Marshall Mathers LP” (9.7 million). Not only is the music industry watching to see if he can post another first-week sales figure in excess of 1 million copies, but many are also eager to see whether “Encore” can give Eminem his fifth album in a row to reach the 5 million sales mark. It was eventually certified 4X Platinum in the US alone and earned Eminem a Grammy for best rap album. During that time, he sold over 50 million albums and performed 88 solo performances as part of the Anger Management Tour.Eminem’s latest album is serving as a barometer on several fronts for the Detroit rapper, and for rap in general. The album was an instant commercial and critical success. Eminem’s Earnings by Year: Earnings by YearĪs you can see, the above chart excludes Eminem’s peak record-selling years, from 2000 to 2003, since data was not available at the time. 50 Cent has sold 30 million records over his career. Shady Records published the soundtrack of 8 Mile the following year, and it went on to sell over 11 million copies worldwide.ĥ0 Cent’s first album, released in February 2003, went on to sell 14 million copies throughout the globe. Shady Records quickly signed 50 Cent as their first solo artist. 50’s mixtapes had already caught Eminem’s attention, and he was anxious to add him to the company.
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D12, a group of Detroit rappers that Eminem recognised, was the first artist to sign with the label.Įminem was introduced to underground New York rapper 50 Cent while shooting the movie “8 Mile” in 2002. ‘Find him now,’ I exclaimed when Jimmy played this.”Įminem launched his own record label, Shady Records, under Aftermath Records in 1999. I’ve never discovered anything from a demo tape or CD in my entire time in the music business. “What the fuck!? and who the fuck is that, I thought. Later, Dre would explain his immediate response to Eminem’s demo as follows: Dre had just formed his own company, Aftermath Records, and was seeking for fresh talent to sign. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the album features production from Dr. Recorded in Ferndale, Michigan following Eminem's recruitment by Dr.
It was released on February 23, 1999, by Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. He came in second, but an Interscope Records employee was so taken with what he heard that he sent The Slim Shady EP to business CEO Jimmy Iovine.ĭr. The Slim Shady LP is the second studio album by American rapper Eminem. He got evicted from his house not long after and chose to partake in the Rap Olympics in Los Angeles. DreĮminem was included in The Source magazine’s unsigned hype piece in March 1998. He recorded “the Slim Shady EP” in the spring of 1997, which was published by Web Entertainment the following winter. Around this period, he took on the rougher, more aggressive character of “Slim Shady.” He rapped about drugs, sex, violence, rape, and murder as his alter ego Slim Shady.
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