The Detroit rapper’s third studio album is now his seventh to hit 1.9 billion streams on Spotify.
21 years ago, on May 23, 2000, Eminem made a sensational debut in the new millennium with his second studio album The Marshall Mathers LP, an opus made up of hits but above all built as a very personal response to all its detractors. With his previous project The Slim Shady LP, who saw the birth of his evil alter-ego Slim Shady, Eminem has gone from a respected underground rapper to a major hopeful of global hip-hop. He even won the Grammy Awards for best rap album in 2000, his natural talent for discipline and his obvious charisma having won over fans of the genre.
The Marshall Mathers LP
With The Marshall Mathers LP, Slim Shady quickly established himself as a phenomenon that went beyond the framework of rap and touched multiple backgrounds. In the first week, the record sold 1.7 million copies in the United States and remains to this day the best-selling rap album in history in the first week. Only three musical albums managed to do better: 25 from Adele with 3,378,000 copies in 2015, and No Strings Attached and Celebrity from NSYNC with 2,416,000 copies respectively in 2000 and 1,880,000 copies in 2001.
Whoever can be considered the Detroit rapper’s best album has had a hard time on streaming platforms. It is noticed by the fact that his last album to date Music to Be Murdered By surpassed 2 billion streams a few months ago, just a year after its release. All the same, The Marshall Mathers LP is about to go beyond this level and reminds the whole world that Eminem is unbeatable.
Slim Shady knows huge numbers on most of his projects. In addition, he is the artist before the year 2000 with the most listeners per month on Spotify. Then, you should know that Curtain Call : The Hits by Eminem spent a decade on the Hot Billboard 200, a first in hip-hop.
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