Even Eminem has moments of apparent disbelief, when he looks back on his career and marvels at how far he’s come. On Monday (January 10), Slim Shady announced he’d just hit over 50 million YouTube subscribers and commemorated the occasion with a tweet.
Alongside a montage of some of Eminem’s most popular videos, he revisited some of his lyrics from the 2002 Eminem Show single “Sing For The Moment” and wrote in the caption, “‘Now how the fuck did this metamorphosis happen? From standin’ on corners and porches just rappin.’ 50 million subscribers and counting.” The text across the 46-second clip reads, “Over 50 million YouTube subscribers. Thanks for watching!”
Of course, Eminem has smashed YouTube records before. In 2018, at the height of Slim Shady’s highly publicized beef with Machine Gun Kelly, Eminem earned the streaming giant’s biggest Hip Hop video debut and its third biggest overall debut in YouTube history with “Killshot,” his second scathing diss track in the MGK battle.
Last November, the 2002 single “Without Me” crossed the one billion views mark and Shady’s team celebrated by releasing a new HD version of the video. Just nine months prior, “Rap God” also hit over one billion views, his third video to do so.
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Eminem is one of the most successful musical acts of all time. As of 2018, he’s sold over 47.4 million albums and 107.5 million singles in the U.S. alone and another 220 million records globally. Judging by multiple interviews he’s done in the past, Eminem never imagined this type of success, and he’s had to adjust to being a celebrity.
“When I first got in the game, I didn’t understand a lot of shit,” Eminem told LL COOL J in December 2021.” If you were walking outside the venue outside the show and took some pictures, there’s always going to be someone you’re not going to get to. It was my first experience with it. I didn’t understand it. I think it was a combination of what I was going through at that time and experiencing fame for the first time.”
Inb4 click farms! No one listens to Eminem! But but but Grizzly Tee is better. I’m sure all those views are fake huh? Lemme guess Chinese people? White people?
Did I miss any excuse?
How else would you explain why the man has 50 million YouTube subscribers but can’t sell 2 million albums in one whack? He hasn’t had a double platinum album since 2013.
PewDiePie lapped him in subscribers, so yes, something really weird is going on. YouTube is a time-waster. It’s easy to click “subscribe” out of courtesy and then never go back and listen again. And yes, there are an outrageous number of bots and paid followers (purchased from the record company).
So sure, a lot of people are watching Eminem for free. But ain’t nobody paying to hear him anymore.
50m youtube sub
51m spotify followers
Kamikaze when platinum
MTBMB also platinum and sold 4m worldwide
Dude outsold every young rapper in first week sales.
You can hate eminem but you can’t deny his relevancy in the game. Even young kid still listen to him
Dude you’re fuckin retarded ??
Someone is angry lol
Only a teenager brags about their YouTube followers. lol Most of them are people doing reviews clicking subscribe hoping he’ll subscribe back. 50 million people aren’t listening to this man.
About 1 million are left listening, and his last effort, not even that many.
Congrats, credit where its due tho hes aight
He is a force to be recon with.So talented .even if I wasn’t biased I would still have same thoughts .GOat
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This is the problem with past rap artists misunderstanding the “power” of the YouTube platform and putting more stock in 50 million YouTube subscribers than in 2 million in album sales (something Eminem hasn’t had in 9 years). (1) A lot of those subscribers aren’t people. They’re bots. (2) Another 20 million are people who click subscribe out of courtesy and never go back.
And (3) PewDiePie has more than twice as many subscribers. Which should tell you everything to know about how significant YouTube is at gauging cultural relevance. If it’s not a bot or paid follower, it’s someone half asleep trying to find a video that wastes 3 minutes of their life.
Get off social media everyone. It’s trickery.
First of all u r a dumbass and second u r an idiot
50m youtube sub 51m spotify followers Kamikaze when platinum MTBMB also platinum and sold 4m worldwide Dude outsold every young rapper in first week sales. You can hate eminem but you can’t deny his relevancy in the game. Even young kid still listen to him
He has 50 million cause more people listen to EM worldwide than other rappers. And stop hating you trolls, you love to hate cause hes white. At own up to it.
Eminem’s last album has already sold over 4 million lol. Unreal