How long you think it will be before Recovery goes Diamond?

[Coast2Coast]

It has currently sold 5 million in America in just over 2 years so in how many more years until you think it will sell another 5 million and be certified diamond? i think by 2014 it will be diamond selling this would be then Eminem's 3rd diamond album

[Mathers]

It's at 4.3 million not 5 million and it'll probably take nearly 10 years.

[Coast2Coast]

It's 1 of his most popular and loved album by his fans cos it sold the amount it has in only 2 years

[EminemBase]

I think a very long time, as... as time goes on the sales slow more by more, so unless it has random resurrections with 'Em crazy' periods (like The Eminem Show has recently) or when he dies, I think it'll take a very long time.

[Amaranthine]

Didn't TES just go Diamond not too long ago?

[Mathers]

It's 1 of his most popular and loved album by his fans cos it sold the amount it has in only 2 years

It's not loved by a lot of his fans though.

[Coast2Coast]

It's 1 of his most popular and loved album by his fans cos it sold the amount it has in only 2 years

It's not loved by a lot of his fans though.

But majority it is around the world it has also sold 8 million worldwide so far. It's an album that i love playing alot

[EminemBase]

It's 1 of his most popular and loved album by his fans cos it sold the amount it has in only 2 years

Not really... Encore sold the same amount within months.

Recovery is loved by a new generation of fans, kids, a lot of who started with Recovery. Now if you START with Recovery, and know nothing else of Eminem... it would actually sound pretty amazing. But from a fan's perspective... I mean it's still a great album but, the flaws are more obvious.

It's like, my Dad's friend first heard Em by "Lose Yourself" and then bought Encore; so he hadn't actually heard any of his prior albums, and yet he thinks Em and Encore are genius. It's strange when you change the perspective like that, and he's like a really picky, critical music fan. And Encore may be half-baked garbage to many fans, who have a standard, but to somebody who's first introduced to him, it's still wildly different, and unique and musical.

But I wouldn't say Recovery is one of his most loved by fans when you consider most Em fans (fans who are actually in to his music and know all his work) like nearly all of his other albums more.

[Coast2Coast]

It's 1 of his most popular and loved album by his fans cos it sold the amount it has in only 2 years

Not really... Encore sold the same amount within months.

Recovery is loved by a new generation of fans, kids, a lot of who started with Recovery. Now if you START with Recovery, and know nothing else of Eminem... it would actually sound pretty amazing. But from a fan's perspective... I mean it's still a great album but, the flaws are more obvious.

It's like, my Dad's friend first heard Em by "Lose Yourself" and then bought Encore; so he hadn't actually heard any of his prior albums, and yet he thinks Em and Encore are genius. It's strange when you change the perspective like that, and he's like a really picky, critical music fan. And Encore may be half-baked garbage to many fans, who have a standard, but to somebody who's first introduced to him, it's still wildly different, and unique and musical.

But I wouldn't say Recovery is one of his most loved by fans when you consider most Em fans (fans who are actually in to his music and know all his work) like nearly all of his other albums more.

I been listening to him since 1999 but Recovery 1 of my fave albums from him is funny cos everyone else that i know who thinks Recovery is of his best albums ever they also have been fans since 1999 or 2000 so what you describing not 1 person i know like that and believe me i know alot of people who fans

[Coast2Coast]

Well, then you must know a lot of stupid people.

It's all opinion like from what i seen the same people most Eminem fans i know who think The Eminem Show his best album they like Recovery alot cosof the similarities in it being emotionally driven, relating, similar style singing alot just relate and like it cos they feel the message like the message so that's why those i know love Recovery so much they find it enjoyable cos of what he saying in the lyrics and expression and quality of hooks. They not new fans they been listening to him from when he first came out too

[Coast2Coast]

If the MMLP and TES took 10+ years to go diamond...I'd say 20 years.

Well Recovery has sold 4.3 million in America and 8 million worldwide pretty fast only taken 2 years to sell so highly so it's a really popular and loved album. Remember it also had 2 number 1 singles

[King Lance]

worldwide = less than 2 years imo

in the us, 7 years

[Block]

Recovery will go diamond when Marshall Mathers decides to buy the remaining copies needed for it. It's widely known that the only reason he has allegedly sold more than 500k copies of any record is because of false claims and the record label tampering with paperwork. Eminem's popularity is only backed by how much evidence the record companies can hide from the public. Like the fact he hasn't written anything of his own since 1998, for instance.

[cooper121]

Recovery will go diamond when Marshall Mathers decides to buy the remaining copies needed for it. It's widely known that the only reason he has allegedly sold more than 500k copies of any record is because of false claims and the record label tampering with paperwork. Eminem's popularity is only backed by how much evidence the record companies can hide from the public. Like the fact he hasn't written anything of his own since 1998, for instance.

[Notalius]

man, i think you're even more obsessed with recovery than TES ... wow