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Later that year, Eminem starred in a film centered around his life titled 8 Mile.

The lead single, Without Me, remains one of the most streamed songs of the 2000s. The rapper wasn’t showing any signs of slowing down, as his 2002 effort The Eminem Show became another Diamond record in the US. In the US, the record became the fastest-selling album by a solo artist until Adele surpassed it in 2015. The set was an immediate success, debuting at #2 in his native US and spawning his first Top 40 hit, My Name Is.Ī year later in 2000, the new superstar sold a massive 1.78 million copies in a week with The Marshall Mathers LP. In early 1999 though, the rapper issued his first album with Dr Dre‘s Aftermath Entertainment, The Slim Shady LP. The album, released only in cassette and LP formats, remained unnoticed with sales close to zero. The iconic rapper shaped an entire generation with songs that are still massively popular today, such as The Real Slim Shady, Lose Yourself, Without Me, and Love The Way You Lie.īefore signing to a major record label at the end of the 1990s, Eminem dropped his debut studio album in 1996. Singles include “The Real Slim Shady,” “The Way I Am,” “Stan,” and “I’m Back.If you wonder how big Eminem is, just think that among the artists who debuted in the last 30 years, he is the obvious #1. The album sold more than 1.76 million copies in its first week, becoming the fastest-selling studio album any solo artist in American music history at that time and won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. Dre and Eminem and features more introspective lyrical content in relation to the rapper’s fame and criticism. Eminem’s third studio album and the follow-up to The Slim Shady LP, the album was produced by Dr. Released in May 2000, The Marshall Mathers LP is the best-selling Eminem album of all-time. Singles include “Without Me,” “Cleanin’ Out My Closet,” “Superman,” and “Sing for the Moment.”ġ. A more reflective, serious, and personal album, The Eminem Show received generally positive reviews and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The album became Eminem’s third album in four years to win the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and achieved diamond certification in 2011.

The Eminem Show, Eminem’s fourth studio album, was the best-selling album of 2002 in the United States. The album was a critical and commercial smash and spawned hit singles including “My Name Is,” “Role Model,” and “Guilty Conscience.” Dre and the Bass Brothers, The Slim Shady LP‘s unique and over-the-top lyrical content is written from the perspective of Eminem’s alter ego, Slim Shady. Singles included “Just Lose It,” “Like Toy Soldiers,” and “Mockingbird.”Įminem’s second studio album and first major release, The Slim Shady LP, was released in 1999 and turned the unknown Detroit rapper into a major mainstream star. Encore received generally positive reviews, sold more than 700,000 copies in its first three days of release, and was certified quadruple-platinum only one month later. Released in November 2004, Encore–Eminem’s fifth album–contains a number of lyrical themes including Eminem’s relationships with his ex-wife, their daughter Hailie, and his own parents, his childhood, and opposition to George W. Singles included “Not Afraid,” “Love the Way You Lie,” and “No Love.” With more introspective and emotional content, Recovery received generally positive critical reviews at debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Dre, while artists such as Pink, Lil Wayne, and Rihanna were featured on select tracks.

Producers included Just Blaze, DJ Khalil, Mr.

Read on for a list of the best-selling Eminem albums of all-time in the United States, according to Recording Industry Association of America.Įminem’s seventh studio album, Recovery, was released in June 2010 as the follow up to the previous year’s Relapse. Along with being a member of the group D12 and one half of the hip-hop duo Bad Meets Evil, Eminem also has his own record label, his own radio channel, and starred in the 2002 film 8 Mile–“Lose Yourself” won Eminem an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Eminem released his debut album Infinite in 1996 and rose to mainstream popularity in 1999 with his second album, The Slim Shady LP–a commercial success that earned him his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The Detroit rapper, record producer, songwriter, and actor has achieved 10 number-one albums on the Billboard 200, holds the record as the best-selling artist of the 2000s in the United States, recently became the second best-selling male solo artist of the Nielsen Soundscan era, and has won 13 Grammy Awards over the course of his 24-year career. Marshall Mathers III–better known by his stage name Eminem and his alter ego Slim Shady–is the best-selling hip-hop artist in the history of popular music.