Eminem Sales Thread

[imhavingarelapse]

Taylor Swift, you can suck a penis. Preferably mine. Can't believe that many people bought her cd.

I still hope C4 tops this.

[Lebron>Kobe]

didn't amazon sell the digital download of "Speak Now" for $3.99? Does that effect the sales at all?

[jarman007]

1 million hats off to taylor

if she has a less than 50% drop next week....eminem's chances of having best selling album will diminish big time

if you ask me she will sell more than em and have the best selling album....she will benifit from the hype of 1 mill sales and have small drops

[14Shots]

how are her singles doing? do you guys think she will have a bigger hit than love the way you lie?

i dont really care about sales but i want to see Em win the best album at the grammys to make up for when mmlp lost.

[slicknickshady]

Soundscan top 16 - one week sales

1 4/8/2000 No Strings Attached 'N Sync 2,415,859
2 8/11/2001 Celebrity 'N Sync 1,879,955
3 6/10/2000 The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem 1,760,049
4 12/9/2000 Black & Blue Backstreet Boys 1,591,191
5 6/15/2002 The Eminem Show Eminem 1,321,799
6 6/3/2000 Oops...I Did It Again Britney Spears 1,319,193
7 1/6/2001 1 The Beatles 1,258,667
8 3/19/2005 The Massacre 50 Cent 1,140,638
9 6/5/1999 Millennium Backstreet Boys 1,133,505
10 4/10/2004 Confessions Usher 1,096,213
11 12/5/1998 Double Live Garth Brooks 1,085,373
12 1/2/1993 The Bodyguard Soundtrack 1,061,000
13 11/4/2000 Chocolate Starfish Limp Bizkit 1,054,511
14 11/13/2010 Speak Now Taylor Swift 1,047,000
15 2/28/2004 Feels Like Home Norah Jones 1,022,149
16 6/28/2008 Tha Carter III Lil' Wayne 1,005,545

[Alaine]

none of her single this era was big at all, like I already "predicted", her million is the result of a genius marketing plan + dedicated country fanbase + dedicated tween girl fanbase + the album only leaked like 3 days before release. She was coming off a 6 millions-selling and highly-praised album, Em was coming off the highly bashed Relapse, there wasn't even that much buzz when Recovery got released cuz both NA & LTWYL started to take off AFTER first week

[slicknickshady]

Recovery will still be the highest selling album of the year. You all do realize how many weeks are left in the year correct?

Eminem will finish with between 3.2-3.3 Million. Swift will finish between 3.0-3.1 Million.

Edit:

Also, for the people making the argument if Speak Now was released in 2000 it would have topped MMLP or whatever. Save your breath. The music climate changes a lot. What sells a lot now would not necessarily sell a lot in 2000 and what sold a lot in 2000 (N'Sync) wouldnt sell what it did then today in 2010, cause boy bands are out.

So just keep that in mind. Basically 1,000,000 is tough to do in one week regardless what year it is, so props to Taylor.

[GenePeer]

Last year Em was close to having Best Selling Album/Best First Week of the year till that lady came from no where and took the post. Now Taylor Swift does (ok, is on the way of doing) it again. If Em really cared about sales, he'd relapse lol

[jarman007]

Last year Em was close to having Best Selling Album/Best First Week of the year till that lady came from no where and took the post. Now Taylor Swift does (ok, is on the way of doing) it again. If Em really cared about sales, he'd relapse lol

Best selling album of 2009 was taylor's fearless

[Alaine]

^ yeah, last year was close too, Taylor still #1 with 3.2 millions at the end of the year though.

And Relapse was not even close to best selling last year

[22muse]

i highly doubt Taylor will have longevity, she doesn't have a smashing hit like Recovery did to keep consistent. All of her songs are dropping on itunes not rising. in another week or 2 the buzz around Taylor will die out.

[Alaine]

if she dropped in january or june she won't probably have longevity due to lack of hits, BUT it's closing to holiday time and the rise of sales in 4th quarter will automatically help her sale's longevity. Damn she can't choose a better time to drop the album. Taylor's team =

[AJS2050]

Billboard 200

5
Eminem
Recovery
38,000
2,899,000

[nathan123]

recovery needs another single in the UK like asap, its heading into the top 30 this week

[AJS2050]

Soundscan Era - Best Selling Sales Weeks In Hip-Hop (Top 16)

Eminem makes up half of this list with 8 of the 16 highest sales weeks.

(rank overall, year, sales, weeks on chart, name, title, chartpos. if not #1)

03 2000 1,760,049 1 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
05 2002 1,321,799 2 Eminem - The Eminem Show
08 2005 1,140,638 1 50 Cent - The Massacre
16 2008 1,005,545 1 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
17 2007 956,936 1 Kanye West - Graduation
24 2003 872,082 1 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
25 2004 870,730 2 Eminem - Encore
32 2003 822,275 2 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
36 2002 808,708 3 Eminem - The Eminem Show
37 1993 802,858 1 Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
38 2000 793,713 2 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
41 2005 770,887 2 50 Cent - The Massacre
48 2010 741,413 1 Eminem - Recovery
57 2002 714,114 1 Nelly - Nellyville
59 2004 710,880 1 Eminem - Encore
60 2002 702,226 1 Eminem - 8 Mile Soundtrack