RE: THE EMINEM SHOW -
06-06-2002, 10:34 AM
give this dude props.
The Eminem Show was so well received it will take an encore bow atop next week's Billboard 200 albums chart.
The rapper's third major-label LP moved more than 1.3 million copies during its second week in stores, according to
SoundScan figures released Wednesday (June 5), giving it the distinction of having the largest single-week sales of any album this year.
Its tally places the album in the company of other single-week sales successes such as Britney Spears' Oops! ... I Did It Again (1.3 million), Backstreet Boys' Millennium (1.1 million), and 'NSYNC's No Strings Attached (2.4 million) and Celebrity (1.8 million), as well as Eminem's last album, The Marshall Mathers LP, (1.7 million).
Eminem's weekly total is even more impressive given that, unlike its high-ranking companions, it comes during the LP's second week of release. It trumps the previous week's numbers by more than a million copies, though its debut week consisted of a truncated sales cycle that began, for some retailers, on Friday instead of the customary Tuesday (see "Eminem Does What Diddy Does ... And In A Lot Less Time").
The Eminem Show bested the week's #2 album, P. Diddy and Bad Boy Records' We Invented the Remix, by more then 1.2 million, as the hip-hop collective's collection finished the week with more than 117,000 in sales, holding onto the runner-up slot for a second week.
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