BuzzAngle Music’s annual year-end music report has revealed Eminem sold more albums than any other artist in 2018.
According to the data, Slim Shady is at the top of the list with a pure album sales total of 755,027 units. Roughly half of those numbers are attributed to Kamikaze, Em’s 10th studio album.
South Korean boy band BTS landed in the No. 2 spot with 603,307 total units, while country star Chris Stapleton settled in at No. 3 with 577,287.
Em also ranked at No. 4 in the Total Consumption category, trailing behind Drake (No. 1), Post Malone (No. 2) and XXXTENTACION (No. 4).
The Detroit-bred rap behemoth succeeded in the streaming category as well. With more than 2.5 billion streams, he reached the No. 4 spot.
Kamikaze was streamed over 760 million times and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart following last August’s release.
It also kicked off the highly publicized beef between Em and Machine Gun Kelly. As a result, MGK fired off the “Rap Devil” diss track and Em retaliated with “Killshot.” The latter marked YouTube’s biggest Hip Hop video debut in the platform’s history.
Kamikaze was ranked at No. 19 on HipHopDX’s Best Albums of 2018 list.
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The music industry has completely tanked if Eminem of all people can not even hit a million in sales anymore. Even MMLP2 did a million first week and sales were already way down at that point. Granted that Kamikaze was a surprise release with very little promotion, but still.
Streams buddy. The game has changed. No one buys CDs anymore. I still take the old school approach and a physical copy is a must have. But these kids are getting close to not even knowing what a CD is
True man, I got my girl to buy me a copy of Ice Cube’s recent release for Christmas and would still buy CD’s from time to time but I have an Apple Music account now too and it’s just too easy to stream, easier than having Limewire back in the days lol. Sad that some people won’t have a clue what a CD is anymore, just following the trends of records and cassettes but people still love them.
still over 40% of sales & redbox is used 2000 times per minute still big business for people who like to OWN what they buy
You gotta remember he told his fans if they like Trump then to fuckk out of his fan base. He lost a lot of his fans.
Lol fuckk Trump and his inbred fanboys
Em was the highest selling artist last decade. It would be crazy if he pulled that off again, but probably a long shot.
It’s gonna be Drake, bet.
What about gucci stain though?
Thats pretty cool and impressive. Considering he told half his fans to fuckk off when he dissed Trump lol
The world is bigger than the US though. I honestly think one of the reasons he has so many fans is because many of them live in Europe, and they don’t really care about US politics
US figures not worldwide
and yet is still boring
white people stan so hard for their own. he could release a blank CD and they’ll rush to buy it
Kinda like how black people were the only ones defending R Kelly and Bill Cosby? Put the goalposts down, you’re gonna hurt your back…
me and my old lady still aint sliding to no eminem
wop
Tired of Eminem blaming his Trump stance for his shrinking fanbase. These kids don’t care about lyrics, they just wanna bob their heads. Also the world is more PC. It’s ok if he doesn’t sell the same amount, time has passed and his style doesn’t mesh with the main consumers. I still buy his albums, I love Eminem, but the narrative in his lyrics and in the comments section about the dividing audience is a cop out. He had no issues selling albums when he said Fuck Bush and that he’d “rather see the president dead” instead of dead presidents. Kids don’t like you, kids stream, kids determine who is popular. Migos, 21 savage, kodak black, fuckface joe schmo, none of these guys should be as popular as they are but the kids decide now. It’s ok Em, you’re a legend. It’s ok stans, real hip hop fans know he’s a legend. Sorry for the novel, I just hate the excuses being made.
What are you talking about it clearly said he did more units than every other artist, yea he’s old but deindling numbers aren’t attributed to a trump stance or generation gaps, people don’t buy and consume music the same way, his numbers weren’t that impressive but yet it out sold everyone else, the industry has changed and the way people consume music has changed so we’ll never see an artist selling 20 million ever again regardless of how much the kids love them, that era is over in music.
Kids are fuckin with those artists more but they don’t support em. Numbers don’t lie. This is not Eminem by the way.
I’m curious, who has kamikaze in their top 10 of best albums of 2018?
Me and a shitload of other people
Most of us who like real hip hop and not lil everydamrapper
Lol at people still saying “real hip hop” in 2019.
It’s in my top 10 of 2018 but hip hop is so trash these days I have trouble coming up with even 10 albums I liked enough to remember.
So Em needed 2 albums to barely outperform people with 1 album out gotcha.
didnt you hear ,,,revival was dec,2017,,,,stooopid
Dam boi, you dumb as fuk.
The best selling artist of 2018 didn’t even go platinum in pure album sales. The industry is compensating for that by including streams. However if you look at how a label is compensated for streams vs for album sales you can clearly see that these labels (and therefore artists as well) aren’t making the kind of money off music that they used to. Most of their flossing at this point I just posturing.
Last year, the music business showed faster growth than it has since Boyz II Men era. Physical sales only account for like 17%. The revenue streams have diversified. Trust, these companies are making money. Travis Scott just no showed a $400000 show. You’re right though, most flossing is, and has always been, posturing.
wait for the Ho Budden spin. salty ba$tard
its,,,number 1 !! to 10 for me..
Be careful. One of those talentless bone hacks is going to take offense and make a loser ass vice threatening em with a spear…
Your spear’s weird
WINNER
Not true. My man crush Drake was the highest selling hip hop artist of 2018. I’m not seeing Kamikaze as #2 and #1 on Billboard Year End 200 and Year End Hip Hop/R&B Album lists. But I think we should all be glad that fake drug dealer Pusha T didn’t make any year end lists. All praise the 6ix God. OVOXO
Trash
I wonder why? Man, those white boys buy 100 of those shits and throw them away so no black artist can outside them. Nobody listens to no damn Eminem man! Seriously. Stuff is trash but he has that support! They want him to dominate our culture.
No we bought 100,000 units each one and paid BuzzAngle to increase his streams because nobody is listening Eminem, but shhh, it’s a secret.
Sucker for trash!
Yeah nobody listens to Eminem man, nobody clicks on his links and reads his articles man nobody posts comments about him hating On him while keeping tabs on his latest news man..
“they want him to dominate our culture” who’s they?. … And what culture do you own? what did u ever do? Couch quarterback all u did was be born.. Here’s a medal for popping out ur mama puss.. Congratulations my guy..there’s no US or THEM.. it’s WE as we r all human
You guys missed the point, half of the albums were from Kamikaze, rest from his previous albums. But in all, that’s how many pure sales.(Not streams). He ranked number 4 as far as streams go.
when em dropped back in late 90s they same people that liked him back then and like him still now buy albums still.. I for one prefer a physical copy somthing in my hand rather than a file or a PC or just pure streaming for my money.
the dumb fucks that didnt understand and think drakes number 1…
it states highest selling physical albums sold..
yano the plastic case with a album cover and a disc, not who was most popular stream tards