Eminem Is The Best-Selling Artist Of The Decade
by Jumbo | December 9th, 2009
Back in 1999, Eminem was best known as the slightly screwy, bottle-blond protégé of Dr. Dre. Ten years — and millions of albums — later, he’s about to be known as the best-selling artist of the decade.
On Tuesday (December 8), Nielsen SoundScan — which tabulates the Billboard charts — released their lists of the best-selling artists, albums and songs of the 2000s. And let’s just say the past 10 years have been very good for Mr. Mathers.
The Detroit rapper sold more than 32.2 million albums in the 2000s, edging out the Beatles to claim the title of top-selling artist. The Beatles ended up with the decade’s best-selling album (they sold nearly 11.5 million copies of 2000′s greatest-hits comp 1,) besting the likes of ‘NSYNC’s No Strings Attached (11.1 million copies sold) and Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me, (10.5 million). Eminem was the only artist to place two albums on the list; his “The Marshall Mathers LP” and “Eminem Show” records landed at #4 and 5, selling 10.2 million and 9.8 million copies, respectively.
Also, the rapper’s 2009 comeback LP “Relapse” added over 1.5 million in sales.
Those numbers would have increase further if Eminem had released his sequel “Relapse 2” as originally planned in November. At press time, Eminem’s “Relapse 2” is set to be released on March 2010.
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It’s good that Em is the best selling cat of the decade !!!!! Who the fuck is N stink ?!?! those assholes actually sold so many recs ??? shuv a dildo up they ass!!!!!!! Who the fuck is Norah Jones ?!?
Hey what does ” At press time ” mean ?
Em the best forever,He is the king
u rock man…..:)….
Marshal mather Lp…n Eminem Show are awsum…
fuck yea Marshall Mathers lp !!!!!.. All the way im going 2 the store today to buy another copy
….em 4 life baby …
cheeers
the king of rap!
Palestine Not Israel!!!!!
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as a famous friend from another site would say to me
dat gud
Palestine not israel
Opps I mean day lol
do you guys know the date in march in 2010 , for relapse 2 ?
Congrats Shady!!! Still can’t wait for R2…
well..he is the best!!! at everything he does…rapping,writing,acting,producing..and even comedy
EMINEM come to ISRAELLLLLLL AMEN