“Even when he has nothing new to promote, and after months of quiet, Eminem seems to have no trouble ranking as one of the bestselling rap musicians in America”. - Forbes
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That Jack White halftime performance was awesome! Can’t believe Eminem actually did a surprise appearance as well!! 🔥 Happy Thanksgiving to all Stans 😁
Dr. Dre and Eminem at the 27th American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in LA on January 17, 2000. They hit the stage that night to perform “Forgot About Dre,” just vibing off each other like nobody’s business, one of their first big award show moments together.
Happy 52nd birthday to the massively successful history-making Rapper, Songwriter, Composer, Producer, Actor, Global Icon, Hip hop Legend and Best-selling Rap Artist of All Time, the One & Only Eminem! 👏🎂🎉🌟🐐👑🖤
#Eminem is one of the best-selling Artists of All Time with over 220 Million records sold! He has sold 47.4 million albums and 107.5 million singles in the US alone, and was the best-selling Music Artist of the 2000s in the US, and the 3rd best-selling of the 2010s. He was also the 1st Artist with 10 albums consecutively debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and has scored a total of 13 #1 Albums on the US chart! He has had 5 No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100! 'The Marshall Mathers' LP, 'The Eminem Show', 'Curtain Call: The Hits' (2005), "Lose Yourself", "Love the Way You Lie", and "Not Afraid" were all certified Diamond or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)! Eminem is one of the most prolific pure lyricists in Hip Hop history, and pioneered diversity in rap culture! He was the 1st white Rapper to become a Global Superstar, and changed Rap forever, bringing with him a dark side Hip Hop had not seen before. His lyrics were more about internal conflicts from life experience rather than the external struggle of gang culture. His most successful songs on the U.S. Hot 100 are "The Real Slim Shady", "Without Me", "Lose Yourself", "Not Afraid", "Love the Way You Lie", "The Monster", "Godzilla" & "Houdini"!
After signing with #DrDre's Aftermath Entertainment in 1999, Eminem exploded on the international music scene with 'The Slim Shady LP'! 'The Marshall Mathers LP' (2000) and 'The Eminem Show'(2002) followed and were massive successes worldwide, nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, with the latter becoming the best-selling album worldwide of 2002! After agoing on hiatus, Em made a huge comeback with 'Relapse' (2009) and 'Recovery' (2010) which was the best-selling album worldwide of 2010! 'Marshall Mathers LP 2' (2013), 'Revival' (2017), 'Kamikaze' (2018) & 'Music to Be Murdered By' (2020), followed, and were all huge Global successes! Eminem made a victorious comeback this year with his Billboard 200 chart-topping 'The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)' (2024) which reached #1 in 16 countries, spawning the global smash hit "Houdini" which debuted atop the Billboard 200 & the UK Official chart, peaking at #1 in 16 countries!
Eminem also co-founded Shady Records, which launched the careers of D12, 50 Cent, and Obie Trice, and established his own Sirius XM Radiochannel, Shade 45!
Eminem is also a great actor, and starred in the 2002 musical drama film, '8 Mile', playing a dramatized version of himself. "Lose Yourself" from the Original Soundtrack, topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks, the most for a solo rap song, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, with EM becoming the 1st hip hop artist ever to win an Oscar! He also won the MTV Movie & TV Awards for Best Actor in a Movie and Best Breakthrough Performance and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song for "Lose Yourself"! He has won numerous other awards, including 15 Grammy Awards, 8 American Music Awards, 17 Billboard Music Awards, 9 World Music Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and an MTV Europe Music Global Icon Award! Billboard named Eminem "Artist of the Decade (2000–2009)"and 3rd Best Rapper of All Time in 2015! Rolling Stone named him one of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", one of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time" and the "King of Hip-Hop" in 2011! He was ranked 9th on MTV's Greatest MCs of All Time list and 13th on MTV's 22 Greatest Voices in Music rank! In 2012, The Source ranked Eminem 6th on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time, and https://t.co/L0adL2tbom ranked him 7th on their list of the 50 Greatest MCs of Our Time (1987–2007). In 2008, Vibe readers named him the Best Rapper Alive! In 2022, Eminem was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
Happy Birthday @Eminem 🥳🐐
▪️ The Best Selling Hip Hop artist of all-time
▪️ The Best Selling Artist of the century
▪️ The Best Selling male artist for 2 Decades (2000s & 2010s)
▪️ Most awarded male rapper of all-time
▪️ Top-2 Best Selling Rap Albums (The Eminem Show & MMLP)