In the UK, Eminem has sold more than 13 million records. According to Billboard, Eminem has two of his albums among the top five highest selling albums of the 2000s decade. His albums, The Eminem Show, The Marshall Mathers LP, and Encore, ranked as the 3rd, 7th, and 40th best-selling albums of the 2000–09 decade by Billboard magazine.
In December 2009, he was named the Artist of the Decade by Billboard magazine. Including his work with D12 and Bad Meets Evil, Eminem has had 13 number-one albums on the Billboard Top 200, ten solo, two with D12, and one with Bad Meets Evil. He was also named the Best Rapper Alive by Vibe magazin e in 2008. He was ranked 83th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Įminem was ranked 79th on the VH1 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Recovery was also reported by Billboard to be the best-selling album of 2010, making Eminem the first artist in Nielsen SoundScan history to have two year-end best-selling albums. It stayed at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart for five consecutive weeks and a total of seven weeks. It became his sixth consecutive number-one album in the US and achieved international commercial success, topping the chart in several other countries. In 2010, he released his seventh album, Recovery. He released his first album since 2004's Encore, titled Relapse, in May 2009. Įminem then went on hiatus after touring in 2005. "Lose Yourself" would go on to become the longest-running No.
In 2003, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for " Lose Yourself" from the film 8 Mile, in which he also played the lead role. He then won the award again in 2010 for his album Relapse, giving him a total of 15 Grammys in his career. The Marshall Mathers LP and his third studio album, The Eminem Show, won Grammy Awards, making Eminem the first artist to win Best Rap Album for three consecutive LPs. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo album in United States history. Eminem is the best-selling artist of the decade on the US Nielsen SoundScan and has sold over 220 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.Įminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major label debut album The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. He began his career in 1996 with Web Entertainment and has been one of the most popular rap acts in the world since the late 1990s. This is a comprehensive list of awards received by Eminem, an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. They recognize several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. ^ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner.based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). According to THR, “The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S.
The artist’s takes have drawn some criticism from right-leaning fans, though his polarizing lyrics have not slowed the album’s growth. On it, Eminem compares Trump to the Aryan Brotherhood, bashes Fox News for their support of the GOP and insults the president’s appearance.
Revival even features a song, “Like Home,” explicitly aimed at the president. “And any fan of mine who is a supporter of his/ I’m drawing in the sand a line, you’re either for or against/ Or if you can’t decide who you like more and you’re split/ On who you should stand beside, I’ll do it for you with this/ Fuck you” In it, Eminem challenged his fans to pick a side, rapping: In October, Eminem’s “The Storm” BET Cypher Freestyle went viral with its take down of the Commander in Chief. Over the summer, he led a “Fuck Donald Trump” chant at the Reading Festival. Always a lightning rod for controversy, the rapper has become increasingly political in recent months with frequent attacks on Donald Trump. What’s particularly interesting about Revival‘s blast off in sales is that it comes at a time when Eminem is at his most divisive.