

The album received a platinum certification from the RIAA in 2007 and sold slightly over a million copies in the United States. The following year, Shady Records released Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, a compilation album performed by Eminem along various artists from the record label. Įminem released a greatest hits album titled Curtain Call: The Hits in 2005, which sold almost three million copies in the US. Sales, however, were significantly less than the two previous studio albums, with over five million sold copies in the United States and eleven million worldwide. In 2004, Eminem's fifth studio album Encore became the rapper's third consecutive studio album to reach number one in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The album peaked at number one in the United States, where it sold more than four million of the nine million copies distributed internationally. In the same year, Eminem released the 8 Mile soundtrack, also including songs by various artists. The album was certified diamond in the United States, Canada and Australia. In the United States, The Eminem Show was the highest-selling album of the year, with sales of almost ten million copies.

In 2002, Eminem's fourth album, The Eminem Show, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and reached the top spot on various charts internationally, as it went on to sell over nineteen million copies worldwide. With more than ten million copies sold, the album was the third best-selling record of the year in the United States. In the subsequent year, Eminem released his third studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP, which sold 1.76 million copies in its first week of distribution, breaking records for the fastest-selling hip hop album of all-time and the fastest-selling solo album in the United States. In the same year, the rapper, along with manager Paul Rosenberg, founded the record label Shady Records. After signing a contract with Interscope Records and Aftermath Entertainment, the rapper released The Slim Shady LP in 1999, which reached the number two spot on the Billboard 200, and received four platinum certifications from the RIAA. It sold about a thousand copies and failed to rank on the national charts. Įminem's debut album, Infinite, was released by Web Entertainment in 1996. In his home country, he has earned 50 platinum album certifications and 10 number one albums. According to RIAA, Eminem has sold 154 million certified albums and singles in the United States. With record sales of over 220 million sold worldwide, he is listed as one of the best-selling music artists worldwide. Eminem is the best-selling hip hop artist of all-time and the best-selling artist of the 2000s with US album sales at over 32.2 million during the decade. His music has been released on record labels Web Entertainment and Interscope Records, along with subsidiaries Aftermath Entertainment and his own Shady Records. Here are the 50 Best Songs of 2013.American rapper Eminem has released eleven studio albums, one compilation album, and one EP. Okay, so let's start our annual look back at the year that just was. Like every year, new artists showed and proved, big stars shined even brighter than they had before, and wily veterans found yet another way to impress us. There were the massive Billboard hits we couldn’t escape like Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” the street anthems that blasted out of passing cars like French Montana’s “Ain’t Worried About Nothing,” the indie gems we couldn’t stop telling our friends about like Autre Ne Veut’s "Counting," and those album cuts that we kept on repeat (even if it sometimes felt like we were the only ones) like Eminem’s “So Far.” There are bound to be some events to fill it up.) So much has happened over the past eleven month, it’s hard to even remember every song we fell in love with. (It's kind of hard to imagine an uneventful year, isn't it? A year's a pretty long time. That’s right, there’s nothing that says “holiday season” like the smell of chestnuts roasting on an open fire "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" piped in through the speakers at Rite-Aid your in-laws sleeping on your couch year-end lists. All there is left to do is some holiday shopping and read a bunch of year-end lists. That means Thanksgiving is over, Christmas is right around the corner, and then that's it for 2013.
