Eminem now 2nd best-selling male artist of the SoundScan era
Didn't know if this had been posted or not, but Eminem has surpassed George Strait in album sales and is now the second best selling male solo artist of the Nielsen Soundscan era and sixth overall. His latest effort, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 has just reached 2X platinum in the US. All of his albums are now officially 2X platinum (not counting Infinite) and he's the only male solo artist to have 2 diamond albums in the Soundscan era as well.
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Eminem's latest album reaches a notable threshold, while his cumulative sales grow ever larger.
"The Marshall Mathers LP 2" sold another 13,000 copies in the week ending March 16, according to Nielsen SoundScan, upping its cumulative total past 2 million (2.004 million, to be exact). All of Eminem's albums have now each sold more than 2 million, led by the first "The Marshall Mathers LP" (released in 2000), at 10.8 million. (He's also one of only two acts with two 10-million sellers since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. The other: Backstreet Boys. 2002's "The Eminem Show" is Eminem's other title to pass 10 million, having sold 10.3 million.)
Oops is not Diamond on Soundcan, that's why. It SOLD over 10 million copies, but some of them are through BMG, and Billboard likes to pretend as if those sales don't exist. On Soundscan Oops is 9m+ only.
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#1 is Garth Brooks I assume? With like 60m+ copies too, no?
Oops is not Diamond on Soundcan, that's why. It SOLD over 10 million copies, but some of them are through BMG, and Billboard likes to pretend as if those sales don't exist. On Soundscan Oops is 9m+ only.
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#1 is Garth Brooks I assume? With like 60m+ copies too, no?
Yep.
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Among all artists in that nearly 23-year span, Eminem is in sixth place, displacing Strait to No. 7 on the best-selling album artists list. Garth Brooks boasts the most albums sold, with 69.52 million. The Beatles ranks second (65.55 million) and Metallica places third (54.26 million). Mariah Carey (54.24 million) and Celine Dion (52.21 million) round out the top five.
I think they mean soundscan sales cause Garth also has multiple diamond albums. I'm not sure if Brit has 2 albums with 10 million in soundscan sales but I don't follow her career well enough to know for sure.