Detroit rapper Eminem’s eighth studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, was released yesterday (November 5) and already sales predictions for Em’s latest project are beginning to surface.
According to Billboard.com, the album could possibly sell between 700,000 and 750,000 units in its first week and in the process will likely secure the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart.
Additionally, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 could possibly find itself in a similar position as Eminem’s last album, Recovery. Released in June 2010, Recovery sold 741,000 copies in its first week.
If sales projections are correct, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 will not surpass record-breaking first week sales set by crooner Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience. Released in March of this year, The 20/20 Experience sold over 900,000 copies in its first week, a total well above the predicted 800,000 units.
Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2 will instead secure the spot for the album with the second best first week sales this year.
Another artist making noise this week as far as album sales are concerned is Canadian singer/rapper Drake. The Young Money emcee’s latest album, Nothing Was The Same, was certified platinum this week after selling over one million units.
Serving as a sequel to The Marshall Mathers LP, which was released in 2000, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 includes guest appearances from Kendrick Lamar and Rihanna as well as production from Rick Rubin. Em spoke briefly on the process of creating the newly-released album during an interview with Rolling Stone this month.
“I feel like right now I’m probably working harder than I’ve ever worked in my life,” said the Detroit wordsmith. “And I’ve probably worked harder on this record than any other record aside from maybe the time period during The Eminem Show, which is a little hazy ’cause just so much shit was going on at that time. Just being so busy with The Eminem Show and doing the 8 Mile movie, and the soundtrack and the score to the movie. This is probably the equivalent of that but all focused on the record mostly.”
RELATED: Eminem Says Recording With Rick Rubin Was Intimidating
If he was black he would have been dropped after his 3rd album and back in the hood.
his first 3 albums sold incredibly well, he wouldnt be in the hood
Talk about being racist! I sure he is black himself
Em is legend, he’s the first rapper to wear lipstick and high heels in a video, it was his destiny to sell big, he does what we all want to do but are to afraid to do in rap.
BruthaDee gettin his hate on! LOL
I’d be mad too if Em sold more first week than my boy Rick Ross did in over a year LMAO
If he was black you’d be jumping off Nas dick onto his.
Sorry Drake Em’s about to out do your first week sales!
So? Eminem is pop while drake is hiphop.
Somehow Drake will survive.
No, dentalbitch. Drake is pop while Eminem is hip-hop.
Feeling the hate flowing through you? Drake is hiphop and eminem is pop. DOn’t be so biased towards ymcmb just because wayne kissed birdman (which isn’t gay BTW)
wrong. drake is pop and eminems been pop last 2 albums.. answer = both r pop now
Nope. You’re being a dickirder. Eminem is hip-hop while Drake is pop.
Kids, lets get this album Platinum week 1
My mum fixed porridge and it made me poop, please respond.
LMAO…Not the highest selling album of the year..Sorry Stanley and barely more then Drake Smh..But still a good look though
Eminem is the only dude that gets bagged on for not having the highest sales of the year because thats the only thing people can really pick apart
2nd place is better than 3rd or 4th
“barely more then Drake?”
700-750K is more than 650K.
yeah but barely bro. just barely. LOL
What’s so “barely” about selling 100K more than someone else?
It’s 50k difference stop adding on using the high end #’s. Why you mad? Did you think one pop star (Eminem) had way more fans then another pop star (Drake)
No people complained the same way about Kanye cuz his platinum streak ended even though he didn’t have none of the traditional promo like Eminem had Stanley Jenkins
Still, Eminem will have the highest 1st week sales for a hip-hop artist in 2013.
he still had promo. just cause it wasnt tradition dont mean he didnt have it. nigga had his face projected on the side of buildings in major cities all over the world. having no promo was his promo
KING will always be the KING.
yep, that’s drake. king of hip hop right now.
Good, I mean I dont like the album but I’m always happy to see Em sell well, simply because it drives racists and underground elitest douchebags insane lol
like BruthaDee
LOL, nobody cares if Em sells well, he’s supposed to move units like Vanilla Ice, his lyrics speak to who people really are, just listen closely.
Feminem the pale demon flopped. Only 700k. He is doing drake numbers. His white devil stans alone should get him a milly in a week.
BruthaDee hating hard-core.
700k fist week is still more than Officer Ricky sold in over a year
eminem brings out the racists hard. esp when he sells
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cool story bro
Thanks for the response, what’s your name? If you tell me your name I promise I will type it in my posts everyday to show you that we are good friends. I have a disfigured face so I blog here where people talk to me and don’t make fun of me.
They call em Maxx
I’m like 40!
Fuckboy the world has banished you to Hiphopdx because no one in the real world likes you
Was that a subliminal to someone in particular? I’m not responding out if hurt but rather anger.
obviously he was referring to BruthaDee being banned from numerous hip-hop website for being a racist troll
Never heard of dude, don’t care enough to research dude, what about some Hot girls do you have some data on them?
yeah but hot girls dont post on here looking to meet kids half their age
Since when did kids start posting about 41 year old rappers on HipHopDX at 11:00 in the morning? My kid better be in his Math class at 11:00 on a Wednesday or he’s grounded for a month. I feel sorry for your parents, you must be a huge dissapointment to them. Get your life together man.
Sold less than expected. A little surprising, but at this point it’s less about numbers and more the fact Eminem can release an album anytime he wants to and it’ll go to #1.
it’s gonna sell on par with Recovery… if that’s less than what you expected, you must’ve listened too much to these fuckniggas who keep saying “he’s gonna sell a milli first week” like brainless groupies
That doesn’t mean much. Kanye has debut #1 on almost all his almost albums it doesn’t reflect quality…Yeezus just rose again!!!!!
yeezus was trash
2nd anonymous what the fuck are you talking about j cole sold more than kanye first week this year
I ignore attention trolls and it pisses them off, I’m a cruel fuck.
Its only like two clowns like that on here, I just scroll past them just like in school when you walk by the Tards in the retarted class, haha!
They set the projections high because he outdid the projections for his last album by a mile
Hey you dickrider asswipes give me some tips on how to get Hot guys to respond to my posts on Hiphopdx, I’m looking for a Hunk.
just keep posting your twitter name over and over like that BruthaDee guy does and eventually the hotties will reach out to you i assume or he would have stopped doing it
Really wanted to like this album but only a couple of songs have any replay value
Moron
…….sounds about right…..should peak at 2 million …..
My advice is don’t be too obvious, some try way to hard and act all icky.
ok its here
Alum sales go up thanks to guilty fans.
What are alum sales?
Alums? from what school?
Sorry Im late, I have been away in MIAMI with Birdman with a much needed holiday break. But now im back in my office, I can confirm that this album is going to bomb. the sales predictions are false, the people who predicted these got raped by eminem and he forced them to project these sales. The real numbers show the album is going to sell 100k first week
All of this is a lie.
No it isn’t. The one who predicted sales result is Gerald, the leader of soundscan. He’s wrong and the album will bomb.
hes late cause he had to go to the doctor to get his anus checked out after all the anal poundage Birdman and DJ Khaled put him through
No, dentalbitch. Real industry experts made the predictions and they’re correct. MMLP2 will be another successful album for Eminem.
No its that fag gerald trying to change sales predictions. MMLP2 will only be successful because of eminem’s friends.
Nope. Your boyfriend had nothing to do with the sales projections. MMLP2 will be successful because of Eminem’s fans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sZtPRGIKZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TByq_vr_ckw
HA HA So Jay-Z will end up having the most sales of his album first week this year…. #MCHG and by a landslide when you include his the 1 million he sold to Samsung #Winning. Way to outsmart the white people
No justin Timberlake will end up having the most first week sales of his album. That Samsung shit dont count as actual sales.
Jay’s album shipped gold the first week. Em’s album is going to surpass Jay’s the first week.
LOL racist idiot.
Hee’s basically a white guy now breh get real
racist ignorant idiot. you made my day. fucking faggot
What about the extra sales from CoD Ghosts? Em outdid Jay’s Samsung deal with that IMO.
Eminem don’t need that samsung shit to fool the sales. Every single album Eminem sold is actually a fan that goes out and buys it.. He doesn’t need his record label to buy 300k albums to reach platinum to get the top selling album of the year. People actually go buy his album cause he better than all you monkeys.
“White America, I could be one of your kids, white America, little Eric looks just like this,
White America, Erica loves my shit, I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get, white America, I Could be one of your kids, white America, little Eric looks just like this, white America, Erica Loves my shit, I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get…Look at these eyes, baby blue, baby just like yourself, if they were brown, Shady lose, Shady Sits on the shelf, but Shady’s cute, Shady knew, Shady’s dimple’s would help, make ladies swoon Baby, {ooh baby}, look at my sales! Let’s do the math, if I was black, I would’ve sold half, I ain’t have to graduate from Lincoln high school to know that!” – Eminem “White America,” 2002 – “The Eminem Show”
why are you bring that up?
Shut up you racist moron. Eminem also said that he’d slap a fag, drown his wife and God knows what. If you’re taking Eminem word for word, you also view him as better than Nas, Andre 3K, Gza, Rza, Immortal Technique, Tech N9ne etc., because he says he’s top 4 (2 spaces took up by Eminem and Shady).
Sit down KID.
FACT: HIP HOP DX IS MOSTLY IMMATURE WHITE KIDS WHO ARE INTO HIP HOP.
FACT: LOOK AT THE ATTENTION EMINEM GETS IN EVER COMMENT SECTION NO MATTER THE ARTIST.
FACT: WHITE PEOPLE CONSIDER EM THE BEST BECAUSE HE IS WHITE AND A FUCKING BEAST ARTISTICALY, LYRICALY, AND SALE WISE.
FACT: BLACK PEOPLE DONT CONSIDER EM THE BEST BECAUSE NONE OF THAT SHIT MATTERS TO BLACK CULTURE, HIP HOP CULTURE. HIP HOP STARTED IN THE STREETS NOT THE FUCKING BURBS. THATS WHY BLACKS CLING TO JAY-Z. EVERYTHING HE EMBODIES IS HIP HOP CULTURE, BLACK CULTURE. THATS WHY EM CANT RAP TIL HE TURNS BLUE HE WILL NEVER HAVE THAT TITLE. NO MATTER HOW GREAT HE IS. THAT WHY WHITE FOLKS GET ON HERE DISSING MOST BLACK RAPPER, BUT THEY DONT UNDERSTAND THIS SHIT WASNT MADE FOR THEM TO UNDERSTAND LOL. IT MIGHT REACH THEM AND ENTERTAIN THEM BUT THEY WILL NEVER GET IT.!!!!!!
Everything said by BruthaDee here is a lie.
fuckin’ racist faggot. america would be better place without you
lol a white rapper shits on all these black rappers
Cause sales mean everything.
Fuck outta here, dick rider. Go stick a growth chart up your ass.
This is not jay z like 750000! Not any comany give away Em’s album, pay attention nuggah!
I think CoD: Ghost gave Eminem’s new album to who ever bought the game
@Anonymous NOPE!!!!
They didnt give it away, they offered at 10 percent discount and bonus track noob
FACT: HIP HOP DX IS MOSTLY IMMATURE WHITE KIDS WHO ARE INTO HIP HOP.
FACT: LOOK AT THE ATTENTION EMINEM GETS IN EVER COMMENT SECTION NO MATTER THE ARTIST.
FACT: WHITE PEOPLE CONSIDER EM THE BEST BECAUSE HE IS WHITE AND A FUCKING BEAST ARTISTICALY, LYRICALY, AND SALE WISE.
FACT: BLACK PEOPLE DONT CONSIDER EM THE BEST BECAUSE NONE OF THAT SHIT MATTERS TO BLACK CULTURE, HIP HOP CULTURE. HIP HOP STARTED IN THE STREETS NOT THE FUCKING BURBS. THATS WHY BLACKS CLING TO JAY-Z. EVERYTHING HE EMBODIES IS HIP HOP CULTURE, BLACK CULTURE. THATS WHY EM CANT RAP TIL HE TURNS BLUE HE WILL NEVER HAVE THAT TITLE. NO MATTER HOW GREAT HE IS. THAT WHY WHITE FOLKS GET ON HERE DISSING MOST BLACK RAPPER, BUT THEY DONT UNDERSTAND THIS SHIT WASNT MADE FOR THEM TO UNDERSTAND LOL. IT MIGHT REACH THEM AND ENTERTAIN THEM BUT THEY WILL NEVER GET IT.
Everything said here by BruthaDee is a lie.
i dont think he types in all caps
Next time add a random name to your post and every time you make a post that hurts their feelings they will respond to you or any post that’s similiar. LMBAO, fuck they heads all up Bruh.
oh okay I get it so its payback for all the laws whites made that blacks cant understand and they wont get it
who the fuck are you breh? lmaooo nobody read that shit
So true…..Em is a beast, but black people relate more to Jay and nas….. While white people relate more to Em…All of them are great artist but appeal to different people…..
Your right, white people don’t relate to the black man rapping about big fukin chains and grills they stole from the store, or the old grandma they robbed on the corner of the street.
White people relate to real every day life issues, not issues that black people create themselves because they are too stupid.
just before I saw the receipt which had said $5815, I have faith that my cousin was like actualey taking home money parttime from there computar.. there neighbour has been doing this for under 17 months and resantly cleard the mortgage on there house and purchased a great GMC. Continued>>. WWW WIKI34 COM
Gerald is a fucking faggot who makes up BS about me. He knows I fuck chicks and he’s butthurt about it.
BruthaDee told me all about the gangbang he had had with you and Birdman in Miami
Same sales as Recovery despite an over 3 year break from his last solo album and an album sound far less poppy with no hits anywhere near as big as Not Afraid or Love the Way You Lie. I’m quite surprised, and glad to see good hip hop selling. And to all the people saying this is barely more than Drake, YM members, specifically Drake and Wayne, usually only end up selling 2-2.5x more than their first week before sales pretty much end, whereas Em usually sells at least 4x his first week sales, if not more.
Came straight All The way from the caucus mountains to get this shity album us white Edomites love eminem. Cuacus power! Lmao
So minorities are mad that they’re to broke and cheap to support their culture and white people are buying Eminems album like hot cakes? LMAO What ya don’t support the white man will gladly snatch up and make millions from it! Don’t cry now! It’s too late! Sit back and enjoy the outcome of your bum ass ways! On another note that Eminem album is garbage. All pop track with sack beats and hooks. Verses are all over the place too!
Hmm balcks are 13% of the population, i’d expect whites at 70% to be able to buy way more ablums. Talk about an uneducated post.
Whites support their own, they have more disposable income than Black people. The whites only have a handful of rappers to support while us Blacks have about a million. I purchased Ace Hood, Yeezy, Ghostface, Pusha T , Dom Kennedy and J. Cole and I bought a shitload of singles off ITunes but I buy R&B and Neo Soul albums too so I can’t support all my favorite rap artists but I try if I have the extra money.
You’re a dumb ass! Black people are not the only minorities d*ck head! You ever heard of latinos, asians, arabs, etc SMFH!
Maybe if they stopped having so many kids with different women and expensive sneakers they don’t need they would have money to support their favorite artists
And maybe if whites got the fuck off of their asses and did some shit our country wouldn’t be trillions of dollars in debt.
Black people apparently cause crime and sit on our asses makin kids according to whites, but that ain’t shit compared to the shit whites do, damn.
an expensive sneaker is better than an album what I can download free. – WHITE BOY
LOL
glad many of you see it now
whiteboys be bringing up lame racism and be looking hella stupid doing so
The irony of this comment coming from BruthaDee, the 40 year old racist.
First album I have bought in a long time. Marshall earned my $16.
Damn how did you pay that much? This was on sale everywhere.
the normal price for a cd in New Zealand is $30.
^Actually bro the deluxe version of MMLP 2 on itunes in New Zealand was $24. Albums are usually 17 on itunes
Was Target to far a drive for you?
1 mil plus; from my trusted sources. many stores are sold out of mmlp2 worldwide.
MMLP2 will continue to sell through out the year and it will also perform very well over seas in Europe and Asia.
Eminem has already sold well over 100 million’s worldwide and his fanbase isn’t going anywhere.
Why didn’t his fanbase make the album platinum in a week then?
They don’t need to.
lol…what else is new??….Em’s albums always sell..no surprise here….congrats..
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Why you so bitter? They always post an article about the projected sales for each big hiphop artists, not just EM.
Pop Music should sell big, just ask justin timberlake and justin bieber this isn’t news.
Alright well im not going to hop on here and talk about racial shit because every black rapper in the game acknowledges that hes at the very least top 10. I was a major critic of relapse and encore I thought they were like every typical album rappers put out, 3-4 songs hit others are fillers. Then again music is all about how YOU feel and what your going through at that point in your life. I was doing well and I was young I didn’t want to listen to no accents and dude talking about relapsing and drug addiction so I wasn’t feeling it. Now its 2013 and he comes out with this album im older doing well kinda thinking about past moments which is the same shit hes doing with this album so im feeling this. I like all music so the rock in it doesn’t bother me I kind of think its refreshing. I give this album an 8/10 reason being I think survival and bezerk were commercial songs for call of duty and Sports programming. I also feel that “Baby” and “so much better” were fillers wasn’t feeling those. I think every other song was legit with good lyrics, catchy beat and I don’t care what anybody says about monster that song is a smash hit and My favorites were “stronger than I was” and “wiked ways”
Lol at “So Much Better” and “Baby” being fillers. They are one of the best on this album and both of them songs and “Brainless” was produced by EM.
I see you like pretty much the only songs which aren’t hiphop on this album, like the wack ass Rick Rubin produced songs, or the Pop single The Monster. If you were too young to connect at the time Relapse dropped, you’re most likely one of those New Eminem fans that started to listen to EM because of Recovery and don’t know shit about hiphop.
I give the album the same rating, but not for the same reasons and definitely not because of the same songs.
lol looks like Eminem toped Drakes first week sales of 650k, Drake won’t be able to sell 700k 13 years into his career, so you Drake fans need to stop making comparisons because there is none.
in 13 year Drake will probably be back to his first job, acting
Co-sign. And also it has been nearly 15 years, not 13. He also has been in the rap game for almost 20 years though part of which was underground.
Eminem took years off in between where he basically hid because he was too strung out to do his day job. Drake doesn’t have to be around in 13 years. At this rate, he’ll make his money and go do something else. Then again maybe he’ll have a ten year career. Nobody knows.
A Drake fan making shit up to defend their hero. LOL how honorable.
Either way, Eminem accomplished more in 5 years than most rappers have done in their entire careers.
Having the second highest first week sales of the year is a flop
^^^^ HHDX logic
HHDX is the anti-thesis of logic. Only think more fucked up are the comments.
Let’s make this album hit 1 milli in it’s first week.
Go out and BUY the album !!
Let’s show them the white boy rules them all!!
White boys rule shitty ass music.
I don’t even look at Em like that. He a dope rapper, don’t even think about the fact that his ass white. Keep livin in yo race-tinted world, bitch ass fucker.
Stop making us white people look bad. I like Em cause he’s sick, not white, and I could really give a f*ck how many albums he sells.
i am back to say Tha Carter IV sold 900k+ first week.
Eminem is white and just 700k? C4 outsold both Recovery and MMPL2. swag
#blackpower
total sales of C4 vs recovery though???
Do you post this on every article?
You forgot to mention when Carter IV leaked online, it went double-platinum in less than 30 minutes in illegal digital downloads.
Damn, Eminem’s dickriders still alive ?
He can’t do better than Jay-Z.
em killed jay on renegade remember. out sell jay? your kidding right? is jay-z artist of the decade? nope. do sales really reflect anything? nope. did eminem get slaughtered by Nas? nope, that was jay-z. also, every galaxy owner received a free digital copy of “hovs” album. jay-z is the only guy that has to give it away to get high numbers. i have a galaxy but didn’t take the free download. free aint good enough that turd is gonna have to pay me to listen to his shit. also jay is the biggest dick rider in history. r-kelly,eminem,kanye,and now justin timberlake. hov hops on the dick of whoever is hot at the moment to get sales and attempt to stay relevant with his pointless shit raps.
NAS>JAYZ>LUPE>EMINEM
Dick riders
nas>em>mos>talib>gza if jay-z is on your list then you need to listen to more music.
“700k fist week is still more than Officer Ricky sold in over a year”
Does Ricky looked concerned? I think not.
He is.
“What’s so barely about selling 100K more than someone else?”
Industry analysts and people on here were predicting a million first week. Also factor in Drake’s already platinum. Eminem’s the one whose going to have to survive that second week drop, and continue putting up steady numbers.
Wrong.
They also said Drake was gonna do a million 1st week and he sold a million in over a month. Also, because of his name, Eminem will survive the second week drop and continue selling well.
Eminem is the most overrated being in the history of music.
Marshmallow’s autistic-ass just dissed me, Drizzy, Yeezy, and HOV on that wack-ass “Evil Twin”… LOL I guess he doesn’t care about having Black fans anymore… Somebody telll that man i’m officially off probation and i’m in the studio right now double-cupped up working on my response! – Best Rapper Alive
he didn’t diss them dumb ass he implied other people bite their sound, steal their style. he has given lil wayne more credit than he will ever deserve. and your not lil gayne and if you were you should know your music is trash. gayne could never stand up and flow with mos def and black thought. he would never be invited to and he wouldnt show up if he was. get off gaynes dick you little cock-boy. also drake is garbage too so is the rest of youngmoney. the only talented artist on cash money is busta and the fact that he took that deal is an insult to his legacy.
They also said Drake was gonna do a million 1st week and he sold a million in over a month. Also, because of his name, Eminem will survive the second week drop and continue selling well”
Who said that? Drake has never come close to selling a mill in a week. Eminem will go platinum, but he’s not as well liked by hip hop as a whole anymore. Of course he’ll survive, but his buzz will die out faster than usual.
A bunch of Drake stans said that he was gonna sell a million 1st week. And Eminem is still liked by hip-hop and his buzz won’t die out. Again, this is Eminem, a Top 10 best rapper ever.
Rick Ross is so concerned that he just treated himself to Red Lobster.
Nah, he went to McDonalds.
“an expensive sneaker is better than an album what I can download free”
Sneakers get dirty and wear out. Albums can last as long as you want them to.
“And Eminem is still liked by hip-hop and his buzz won’t die out”
Then why didn’t he do a million? Recovery sold well, but alot of people didn’t like it. This isn’t the same Eminem who used to drop classic songs. He’s even admitted how awful his more recent work has been. The success will always be there, but it’s more because of his name than for anything he’s contributing.
Why didn’t he do a million? Times have changed. Like you’ve said, more people download music instead of going to the store and buying it. His chances of selling a million 1st week are low. Actually, a lot of people still liked Recovery. And Eminem is still capable of making classic songs as MMLP2 is one of the best albums of recent memory.
“Why didn’t he do a million? Times have changed. Like you’ve said, more people download music instead of going to the store and buying it”
JT did it. Granted, he has a huge pop fanbase advantage, but so does Em, and he still fell short. Go back and listen to some of his old collabo’s like Forget About Dre, What’s The Difference, You Don’t Know… Dude was a beast. He’s half of what he once was, and at least IMO, that accounts for lower sales, even though 700,000 + isn’t bad at all.
Fell short? Em never fell short. 750K is great for Eminem. He’s still a beast. Listen to Bad Guy, Brainless, Legacy, Evil Twin, Groundhog Day, etc. He still has it.