Marshall Mathers has nothing to prove anymore and I hope he'll win the grammy of the "best album of the year" this time since he already lose it 2 times before. (The Eminem Show and Marshall Mathers LP)
Space Bound has gone a small bit of radio play in Australia n NZ
so maybe thats an indication it Recovery's next single..
but alot of Em's album don't get that many singles so No Love could be the last
its #55 n NZ iTunes & #102 on Australia
Eminem's comeback reached another landmark today, as his "Recovery" LP was officially confirmed as the United States' best-selling album of 2010, with 3.42 million copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The MC had previously nabbed the top-selling album of the year in 2002, when "The Eminem Show" moved 7.61 million.
It's the first time since SoundScan began tracking music sales in 1991 that an act has copped the top-selling album in more than one year.
"Recovery" is the biggest-selling album of a year since 2007, when Josh Groban's "Noel" sold 3.70 million. In 2009, Taylor Swift's "Fearless" was tops with 3.22 million, and in 2008, Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" reigned with 2.87 million.
"Recovery" made big news when it arrived on the Billboard 200 chart at No. 1 back on July 10, 2010. It was Em's sixth chart-topper (and sixth No. 1 in a row) and launched with 741,000 copies in its first week. At that point, it was biggest single-sales week of the year for an album, although that feat that would later be broken by the arrival of Taylor Swift's "Speak Now," which shifted 1.05 million when it exploded at No. 1 on the Nov. 13, 2010, chart.
Space Bound should be the 4th single, released next month.
Cinderella Man should be the 5th & last single released in June.
Then he can re-release in November with the first single released in September/October.
- 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.
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
digital songs
36 eminem feat. Rihanna love the way you lie 91,015 -23 117,999 4,245,354
37 eminem not afraid 89,919 -34 136,303 3,413,584
40 eminem no love 84,669 -32 125,370 939,214
87 t.i. Feat. Eminem that's all she wrote 41,004 -27 56,542 281,535
91 eminem lose yourself 39,569 -16 47,115 3,233,299
94 drake feat. Kanye west, lil wayne & eminem forever 37,747 -14 43,928 2,363,265
98 lil wayne feat. Eminem drop the world 35,588 -24 46,757 1,488,765
104 minaj*nicki feat. Eminem roman's revenge 33,685 -20 42,208 231,977
188 eminem till i collapse 20,127 -25 26,686 1,209,660