Eminem Sales Thread

[slicknickshady]

- 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.

[nathan123]

- 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.

sick man, sick

[slicknickshady]

BILLBOARD’S TOP TITLES & ARTISTS OF THE NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN ERA

TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS
(based on album sales from 1991-1/02/2011)
Artist Units Sold

1 Garth Brooks 68,513,000
2 Beatles 62,066,000
3 Mariah Carey 53,185,000
4 Metallica 52,672,000
5 Celine Dion 51,162,000
6 George Strait 42,396,000
7 Eminem 39,643,000
8 Tim McGraw 39,396,000
9 Alan Jackson 38,275,000
10. Pink Floyd 36,429,000

[Hamza1972]

BILLBOARD’S TOP TITLES & ARTISTS OF THE NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN ERA

TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS
(based on album sales from 1991-1/02/2011)
Artist Units Sold

1 Garth Brooks 68,513,000
2 Beatles 62,066,000
3 Mariah Carey 53,185,000
4 Metallica 52,672,000
5 Celine Dion 51,162,000
6 George Strait 42,396,000
7 Eminem 39,643,000
8 Tim McGraw 39,396,000
9 Alan Jackson 38,275,000
10. Pink Floyd 36,429,000

Not bad

[slicknickshady]

Billboard 200

#2 Recovery, Eminem
#111 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem
#150 Relapse, Eminem
#159 The Eminem Show, Eminem

[TheGentlePlayer]

BILLBOARD’S TOP TITLES & ARTISTS OF THE NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN ERA

TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS
(based on album sales from 1991-1/02/2011)
Artist Units Sold

1 Garth Brooks 68,513,000
2 Beatles 62,066,000
3 Mariah Carey 53,185,000
4 Metallica 52,672,000
5 Celine Dion 51,162,000
6 George Strait 42,396,000
7 Eminem 39,643,000
8 Tim McGraw 39,396,000
9 Alan Jackson 38,275,000
10. Pink Floyd 36,429,000

[313]

BILLBOARD’S TOP TITLES & ARTISTS OF THE NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN ERA

TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS
(based on album sales from 1991-1/02/2011)
Artist Units Sold

1 Garth Brooks 68,513,000
2 Beatles 62,066,000
3 Mariah Carey 53,185,000
4 Metallica 52,672,000
5 Celine Dion 51,162,000
6 George Strait 42,396,000
7 Eminem 39,643,000
8 Tim McGraw 39,396,000
9 Alan Jackson 38,275,000
10. Pink Floyd 36,429,000

Great, just great And for world wide I think Em is in top 3!!!
Btw Metallica rock on baby

So in few days we will know who is the best selling album world wide?

[nathan123]

BILLBOARD’S TOP TITLES & ARTISTS OF THE NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN ERA

TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS
(based on album sales from 1991-1/02/2011)
Artist Units Sold

1 Garth Brooks 68,513,000
2 Beatles 62,066,000
3 Mariah Carey 53,185,000
4 Metallica 52,672,000
5 Celine Dion 51,162,000
6 George Strait 42,396,000
7 Eminem 39,643,000
8 Tim McGraw 39,396,000
9 Alan Jackson 38,275,000
10. Pink Floyd 36,429,000

wow, so, if u included 8mile OST and d12 albums then he'd be neck and neck with metallica and mariah carey ?

[nathan123]

crazy, eminem was the best selling artist of the last decade , and he has started this decade as the best selling atist. Wonder if by 2020 he'll be the best selling artist lmao

[slicknickshady]

2010 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ARTISTS

(Based on Digital Track sales from 1/4/2010 - 1/2/2011)

Artist Units Sold

1 Eminem 15,673,000
2 Ke$ha 13,497,000
3 Lady Gaga 11,891,000
4 Katy Perry 11,837,000
5 Black Eyed Peas 11,337,000
6 Usher 10,717,000
7 Glee Cast 10,654,000
8 Rihanna 10,099,000
9 Taylor Swift 9,912,000
10. B.o.B. 9,118,000

[Emadyville]

- 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.

thanks for putting all that in one post

[AJS2050]

Rap music was the only Genre of music that increased in sales in 2010 over 2009:

2010 GENRE ALBUM SALES REPORT (01/04/10-01/02/11 – IN THOUSANDS)

Rap 27,328 26,441 +3%

Business Wire has loads of great information:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/2 ... try-Report

[Emshady2]

Rap music was the only Genre of music that increased in sales in 2010 over 2009:

2010 GENRE ALBUM SALES REPORT (01/04/10-01/02/11 – IN THOUSANDS)

Rap 27,328 26,441 +3%

Business Wire has loads of great information:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/2 ... try-Report

Pow ! AJ strikes again with some great Info

Thanks!
It increased thanks to Mr Marshall !

[Emshady2]

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.

* In 2009, Lady Gaga had more than 15.2 million and in 2008, Rihanna was the biggest selling digital artist with 9.9 million track sales.


Impressive!

[OMEGA]

Too early or is it safe to assume that Em has great chances of being again artist of the decade?