- Eminem is the biggest selling digital artist in 2010 with more than 15.5 million track sales during the year. This marks the biggest one year digital download track total by an artist for one year.
Best-Selling Album Factoids:
* Eminem’s Recovery finishes the year as the biggest selling album with more than 3.4 million in sales.
- Note that Eminem is the first artist to have the best selling album of the year twice since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan. (Eminem Show in 2002 with 7.6 million sales).
- Recovery also finishes the year as the biggest digital album of the year with 852,000 sales. The biggest one year total for a digital album and is the 2nd most downloaded album of all time; just 30,000 downloads behind Lady Gaga’s Fame.
- Due to the success of Recovery, Eminem jumps 3 positions to the 7th best selling artist in the history of Nielsen SoundScan.
- Eminem is the only Rap artist in the top 20 best-selling artists in the Nielsen SoundScan era.
- With nearly 16 million track downloads in 2010, Eminem jumps up five positions to #4 on the most downloaded artists of all time.







