Eminem Sales Thread

[nathan123]

eminem now ranks 4th in all time artists list in canada
4th. Eminem - 3,606,000

ahead of the likes of the beatles and andrea bocelli
so huge in canada

[nathan123]

^ Totaly, its already half way towards getting 6x Platinum in Canada!

Be amazing if Spacebound is the next single. It really does have strong potential that song.

If he had a re - release i could only dream of diamond

[313]

Where is official sales for this week?

[MayIAskAQuestion?]

Where are the news about Eminem being best selling album of the year seriously ?

[slimfan94]

Space Bound would be his most successful single yet.

[AJS2050]

Chart Watch

Recovery continues its chart recovery. The album, which had fallen as low as #25 in November and December, jumps from #7 to #2 this week. Recovery is a Grammy finalist for Album of the Year. In fact, it's the front-runner to win the award on Feb. 13.

Recovery sold 3,415,000 copies in 2010, which is more than any album sold in 2008 or 2009. In this nervous economy and in this down market for album sales, that's remarkable.

2. Eminem, Recovery, 63,000. The former #1 album jumps from #7 to #2 in its 28th week. This is its 22nd week in the top 10. Four songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Love The Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna), which dips from #32 to #36.

[Emshady2]

Chart Watch

Recovery continues its chart recovery. The album, which had fallen as low as #25 in November and December, jumps from #7 to #2 this week. Recovery is a Grammy finalist for Album of the Year. In fact, it's the front-runner to win the award on Feb. 13.

Recovery sold 3,415,000 copies in 2010, which is more than any album sold in 2008 or 2009. In this nervous economy and in this down market for album sales, that's remarkable.

2. Eminem, Recovery, 63,000. The former #1 album jumps from #7 to #2 in its 28th week. This is its 22nd week in the top 10. Four songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Love The Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna), which dips from #32 to #36.

Thanks !

Do you think it will win the Album Of the Year?

[Emshady2]

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/u-s-alb ... 7859.story

U.S. Album Sales Fall 12.8% in 2010, Digital Tracks Eke Out 1% Gain

As expected, the year-end Nielsen SoundScan numbers once again tell a tale of an industry in turmoil.

There were a few bright spots, but 2010 was mostly about diminishing returns. During the 52 weeks ended Jan. 2, album sales in the United States fell 12.8% to 326.2 million units from 373.9 million units in the prior year, as the sales of CDs fell by nearly 20% for the fourth year in a row.

In the digital realm, growth in individual track sales continued to slow, barely managing to eke out a 1% increase, as sales reached 1.17 billion units, versus 1.16 billion in 2009.

Digital album downloads fared better, posting 13% growth to 86.3 million from the 76.4 million scanned during 2009, accounting for nearly 26.5% of all U.S. album sales last year, according to SoundScan.

Combined U.S. sales of albums and track-equivalent albums (or TEA, where 10 tracks equals one album) fell 9.5% for the year to 443.4 million units from 2009's 489.8 million units, according to SoundScan.

For the first time in the digital era, overall music unit sales -- which count each sale of an album, digital track and music video as one unit -- fell 2.4% to 1.51 billion units from the 1.55 billion units in 2009.

On a positive note, five tracks topped 4 million units in 2010 (versus four songs in 2009), while another seven songs scanned more than 3 million each, versus three in the previous year. However, 2010 only produced 86 songs overall that each scanned 1 million units or better, three less than the 89 that accomplished that feat in the prior year.

The top-selling song, Katy Perry's "California Gurls," scanned nearly 4.4 million units last year, which in 2009 would have ranked third behind the Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow," which tallied 4.8 million tracks, and the group's "I Gotta Feeling," which garnered nearly 4.43 million units.

In another telling sign about the nearly static track-download market, the single highest-scanning week since the advent of downloads remains the 47.7 million units scanned in the week ending Dec. 28, 2008. In fact, 2010's single-week track scan peak of nearly 44 million units didn't even beat out the best track week in 2009, which was nearly 44.8 million units in the week ending Dec. 27 of that year.

Album sales continued to decline, hurt by downloading at unauthorized peer-to-peer networks and shrinking shelf space at fewer brick-and-mortar retail outlets. For the year, only 13 albums managed to scan more than 1 million units, with the best-selling title being the 3.4 million units scanned by Eminem's "Recovery." That represents a new low in the SoundScan era -- even worse than 2009, when only 22 albums scanned a million units apiece.



In a reversal of a trend, catalog albums (titles more than 18 months old that don't meet any of the other current-title qualifications) were the drag on album sales, falling 15.3% to 138.9 million units from 163.9 million scans in 2009. Current albums (those recorded in the first 18 months that stay in the top half of the Billboard 200 or are active at radio) declined 10.8% to 187.3 million units, from 209.9 million units in the prior year. In the five prior years, catalog albums had outperformed current album sales. But in examing the catalog-sales decline between 2010 and 2009, two factors should be noted: the big sales boosts resulting from Michael Jackson's death in June of 2009, and the reissue of the Beatles catalog in the second half of the year.



Finally, Universal Music Group remains the perennial market-share leader. For the year, it garnered 31.4% market share in albums (including track-equivalent ones), beating out Sony Music Entertainment's 27.4% slice and Warner Music Group's 19.8% performance. EMI finished fourth with 9.6%, while the indie sector collectively garnered 11.6%. However that total doesn't take into account independent labels that are distributed by major-label-owned indie distributors.

[AJS2050]

Do you think it will win the Album Of the Year?

Yeah i think finally he is going to get an album of the year win. It will be one hell of a night for him and he is going to get alot of praise and respect not just from the grammys but by the music industry in general. It will basically be Eminem Night.

[Emshady2]

Do you think it will win the Album Of the Year?

Yeah i think finally he is going to get an album of the year win. It will be one hell of a night for him and he is going to get alot of praise and respect not just from the grammys but by the music industry in general. It will basically be Eminem Night.

Yeah , The media loves Comebacks so that's why he should get it. And i hope he gets like 7 grammys .

I know he got 11 grammys. But how many does he need to get to Top 10?

And can he get to Top 5 or even No 1? Is it possible?

[TheGentlePlayer]

#1 is hard, but he can be in top three for the next weeks

[AJS2050]

I know he got 11 grammys. But how many does he need to get to Top 10?

And can he get to Top 5 or even No 1? Is it possible?

5 Grammy wins will place him joint 10th on the all-time winners list. All 10 would place him 6th.

[AJS2050]

#1 is hard, but he can be in top three for the next weeks

Yeah im kinda hoping Recovery doesn't return to #1 because next week and the week after its likely that we could see the lowest sales for a #1 album ever and i wouldn't want Recovery to hold that record.

[mecuryball]

i hope recovery stays around the top 3 next week,cuz it's been falling on itunes.

[mecuryball]

Yeah, The media loves Comebacks so that's why he should get it. And i hope he gets like 7 grammys .

I know he got 11 grammys. But how many does he need to get to Top 10?

And can he get to Top 5 or even No 1? Is it possible?

Here are the top 3 grammy award winners

Georg Solti- 31
Quincy Jones- 27
Alison Krauss- 27

Eminem #1? Hell no,not in this lifetime atleast.