I heard him described as such in a Sasha Feres Jones review. That's crazy. Hard for me to believe since I personally haven't enjoyed anything he has done after his first two LPs.

I wouldn't have guessed it.

I guess I wonder who the competition is though. Adele?



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then he took five years off and came back with an album lacking any true blue radio single material (I guess "Crack a Bottle" got way bigger than it deserved to) and sold five million worldwide.


Believe it or not, Eminem is one of those artists that some folks grew up on and will listen to no matter what. Sometimes in favor of listening to almost anything else.


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Grammys, oscars, all industry awards he got big sales, d12 even sold a few records and he made cake off of 50 and them.

he got fans deep over the past 15 years where you been?

i can't stand that White boy too tough musically because aside from a few things i find him vastly overrated,though he can spit.

but yeah man he got embraced on trl,bet and every other place in between.

LOL

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/eminem-and-the-beatles-the-top-selling-artists-of-the-2000s-20091209

that is thrown down your throat on the daily.

Isn't it kinda early to start crowning artists of the millenniums?
I mean, there are still more than 900 years left for someone to outsell him.

distinction foreva!!!

Agreed it's a bit of a silly stat but yeah.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

1 / The Beatles ~ 11,564,000
No Strings Attached / 'N Sync ~ 11,113,000
Come Away With Me / Norah Jones ~ 10,579,000
The Marshall Mathers LP / Eminem ~ 10,216,000
The Eminem Show / Eminem ~ 9,818,000
Confessions / Usher ~ 9,730,000
Hybrid Theory / Linkin Park ~ 9,697,000
Human Clay / Creed ~ 9,495,000
Oops!... I Did It Again / Britney Spears ~ 9,184,000
Country Grammar / Nelly ~ 8,464,000

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

He is the most successful artist working in a subversive way that I have ever seen. When you really try to put a handle on the vast subject matter of his writing....the lane he carved out in a 'cult of personality' type of way that he ran with from Tupac....

and then remember that he was the biggest pop star of the 00's....

It hasn't happened before. His lyrics are far superior to the only other subversive pop act that he could possibly compared to....The Beatles. But his artistry is entirely encapsulated in ONLY his lyrics, his writing. There's really nothing to him other than that.

And he's the biggest selling pop act (or anyone else) of the 00's.

It's an anomaly. He's an anomaly. The whole thing is just strange. People say it's because he's white. Hahaha. People wanna know what he is gonna say. It's a cult of personality with real heart and soul in the writing.

his lowest selling album sold 5 mil worldwide. we'll see how strong this latest one sells.