Eminem has continued to shatter records over two decades into the rap game. On Friday (December 31), Slim Shady broke his own record of having the highest streamed discography on Spotify, with 11 of his solo records each accumulating over one billion streams on the streaming platform.
While Eminem’s 1996 debut Infinite wasn’t included in this list because it’s not available to stream, the albums included stretched back to 1999 with The Slim Shady LP. The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show, Encore, Relapse, Recovery, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Revival, Kamikaze and his most recent album, Music To Be Murdered By, also all raked in one billion streams.
The groundbreaking Spotify record, which was originally reported by Chart Data, was retweeted by Em’s manager Paul Rosenberg, who simply wrote “Congrats @Eminem!” The diamond-selling rapper accounted for over 21 billion streams on Spotify in total.
Curtain Call, which was merely a greatest hits compilation, was also listened to one billion times. Sixteen years after its release, it was deemed one of the best-selling albums of 2021. As reported by HITS Daily Double, the project sold over 673,000 units in the last 12 months, making it the 49th highest-selling album of this year.
Curtain Call debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 after selling roughly 441,000 copies in just two days as part of a short opening sales week. The album reached platinum status in a mere three weeks and has since been certified 7x-platinum. The compilation included many of Eminem’s biggest hits such as “Lose Yourself,” “My Name Is” and “The Real Slim Shady.”
Shout out to Eminem for breaking another record. The irony is nobody over 40 uses spotify. Eminem is like 48 and he beat out all the mumble/autotune rappers on their own generations favorite platform.
Two words: click farms.
Do you have proof for that, or is this just a “I don’t like these numbers so I’ll invent a conspiracy theory to invalidate them” kind of thing?
I highly doubt the highest selling rapper of all time by a lot needs click farms you dork
It’s middle class and a rich white fan base such as yourself who gives him those numbers. Majority of America is white and so are his consumers. Who da fuck in the hood streets or underground checking for em in 2021? He got famous for his antics, attacks on the homosexual community and notably rap beefs with pop stars like Moby, Brittany Spears and Christina Agueilera. Imagine if another rapper had a beef with a pop star ? They would get roasted for being corny! He ain’t never came like that on a serious level to nobody respected in the rap game. He is what Elvis was to rock and roll for white people. Look at Dababy with the cancel culture shit when Em said it it was all good because he represents white America.
Are you for real ? In that case why did goats like Jay, Nas, Rakim, Reggie and many others praised his ability as a rapper/lyrisict ? You don’t want the rap to go beyond the hood ? Like it or not, Em made rap a global phenomenon (scale wise). Stop being salty eventhough its a hard pill for u to swallow !
No he didn’t. Rappers were making money overseas before anyone knew who Eminem was. Nobody outside of the US and Europe mess with Eminem.
Maybe Google some of the murals fans have made of him in China, in the rest of Asia. Eminem is worldwide, bro, regardless if you wanna admit it or not.
That has nothing to do with him being a rapper
Good point RSA
You anti-stans are worse than Stan’s. You Embarassing.
You degenerate pea brain, he was being boycotted after his first main stream album and got sued tf out of for all his lyrics. They tried to cancel him but he was already too big and too unique. And he was involved in real beef with murder inc where shit got real serious for years so wtf are you talking about? Also, ppl in the hood don’t necessarily play Eminem but all them hood rappers respect and state publicly that he is a goat so nobody is tryna say ppl in the hood play Eminem. You dumb asf too because the white kids in America are only a fraction of his fan base retard. Em is worldwide global phenomenon, ppl play his shit in Europe, India, Asia, etc….
Facts
Your a hater. Sure ignorant bullshit get play in the hood because you idiots are like crabs in a bucket with a parallel narrow view. But what legacy do they leave? That bullshit comes and goes a couple hundred times a year with countless names being the next big thing today and forgotten tomorrow. Quit hating dude, em is the best. He’s influenced the greatest rappers in this new era, he’s the top 2 for fastest raps of all time as well as best selling, and respected by all, except for racist people like you and sad ass lord jamars
“But you haters are butthurt (Ow), bunch of sore hind-ends (Ow)”
fker hip hop is not all hood , if it was get a patent on that fkin donut. Em himslef said he has no problems being called a guest in hiphop.the guy is still relevant he doesnt gives a shitt bout nos, fame ,juss check the longevity son ,ur fav rapper is not relevant now ,and pardon me are they even rappers or businesmen, thiis is the love for the art that em constantly tries to improve in this hope ur pea head gets it
It’s not just white people; he is a global artist, Latinos, Asians, Africans, you name it. Pretty much every continent you can find someone who approximates his art. Sadly, you think hip is just about the streets, let me remind you that today’s hip hop is much more complex and diverse.
Being hood proud on the internet is retarded. You say the hood isn’t bumping Em but no one cares about the hood anymore. Hip hop/rap grew up. It’s bigger than the hood now, leaving the “hood” behind. No hood rappers getting bumped anywhere meaningful.
NOBODY has put more money on other hip hop artists pockets than Eminem. Hip hop has been beyond the hood since the 90s, LL Cool J and Run DMC took it to white audiences long before Eminem. As fr going at none, one of his first beefs was with benzino. the owner of the biggest and most influential media platform in hip hop (The Source). As for beefs, I’d say, Cannibus, Everlast and Ja Rule were pretty big and real. The reason cos there aint more on the lost is because of what he did to them. In the words of The Game “nobody in hip hopwa ts beef with the white boy – he shreds EVERYBODY”
numbers to be murdered by. OUCH!
Imagine his worth when dead.
@ Em Stans Swear….the irony here is that you wouldn’t be referring to anyone as a “Stan” if not for Eminem. While trying to discredit him you’ve adapted a word he invented and gave meaning to into your vernacular. Congratulations…you look extremely salty/stupid