Eminem Top-Selling Artist Of 2000s

Even when Eminem achieved multi-platinum success as Dr. Dre's protege in 1999, no one could imagine the success the rapper from Detroit would have in the following decade.

Neilson Soundscan revealed on Tuesday (Dec. 8), that the rapper was not only the most successful Hip Hop artist of the decade, but the best-selling artist of any kind in the 2000s.

Eminem sold over 32.2 million records in this decade, beating out the Beatles. But fans of the English legends shouldn't fret, as the Beatles landed the number one spot with the decade's best-selling album, 1.

Of the ten albums that sold more than any other this decade, Eminem's were the only ones that placed twice, with 2000's Marshall Mathers LP (10.2 million) and 2003's Eminem Show (9.8 million copies) landing at the fourth and fifth spots, respectively. At the time of its release, Marshall Mathers LP had the fastest-selling solo album debut of all time, with 1.8 million sold in its first week.

Nielsen SoundScan's top-selling albums of the decade:

1. The Beatles, 1,11,499,000 units sold
2. 'NSYNC, No Strings Attached, 11,112,000 units sold
3. Norah Jones, Come Away With Me, 10, 546,000 units sold
4. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, 10,204,000 units sold
5. Eminem, The Eminem Show, 9,799,000 units sold
6. Usher, Confessions, 9,712,000 units sold
7. Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory, 9,663,000 units sold
8. Creed, Human Clay, 9,491,000 units sold
9. Britney Spears, Oops! ... I Did It Again, 9,185,000 units sold
10. Nelly, Country Grammar, 8,461,000 units sold


Nielsen SoundScan's top-selling digital songs of the decade:

1. Flo Rida feat. T-Pain, "Low" 5,214,000 units sold
2. Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis, "Just Dance," 4,690,000 units sold
3. Jason Mraz, "I'm Yours," 4,619,000 units sold
4. Timbaland feat. OneRepublic, "Apologize," 4,439,000 units sold
5. The Black Eyed Peas, "Boom Boom Pow," 4,349,000 units sold
6. Soulja Boy Tell'em, "Crank That," 4,315,000 units sold
7. Lady Gaga, "Poker Face," 4,200,000 units sold
8. Coldplay, "Viva la Vida," 4,140,000 units sold
9. Taylor Swift, "Love Story," 4,005,000 units sold
10. Katy Perry, "Hot N Cold," 3,945,000 units sold
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Congratulations On Grammy Nods

Best Rap Solo Performance
(For a solo Rap performance. Singles or Tracks only.)

Best I Ever Had
Drake
[Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Motown]


Beautiful
Eminem
Track from: Relapse
[Aftermath/Interscope Records]


D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune)
Jay-Z
[Roc Nation]


Day 'N' Nite
Kid Cudi
[Universal Motown/Good/Fool's Gold]


Casa Bey
Mos Def
Track from: The Ecstatic
[Downtown Records]

You can see the Rest of Eminem's Nominations here Grammy

Eminem Talks Michael Jackson, Addiction, 'Different' New Songs

Eminem made his triumphant return earlier this year with Relapse, but has yet to rest on his laurels, putting all of his energy into the soon-to-be-released follow-up, Relapse 2.

In the December/January issue of Complex magazine, the iconic rapper looks back on the splash his comeback created, from the buzz he's built for the Relapse sequel to, more seriously, comparisons to Michael Jackson's ills.

Em, in a moment of reflection, opened up about his battle with addiction, comparing it to Jackson's struggle with pills — although he cautioned it's hard to decipher what reports about the Gloved One were true, much like his own life.

"Oh, 100 percent," Em said when asked about parallels between Jackson's demise and his own hard times. "When you read things about Michael Jackson it's hard to decipher what the f--- is true, but there's the story of how he woke up at whatever time and he needed something to go back to sleep because he has this or that and it didn't work — that's exactly what used to happen to me," Em continued. "I would take a couple of pills and I would be up an hour later and I'd want more.

"It's one of the pitfalls of fame," he added. "I could just say, 'Yo, I need this and this and this,' and they're going to give me whatever I want."

Since Eminem has been sober for the past 20 months, he's said his addiction has been channeled away from drugs into things like jogging (hence the weight loss) and studio time (hence the quick follow-up album). Just Blaze is helping Slim Shady out on Relapse 2, Dr. Dre recently joined Em in the lab to work on new material.

He's aiming to make a better-rounded album with the Relapse sequel, he explained.

"When I finished Relapse, I had a whole album of material that didn't make it that I wasn't ready to throw away, so that was going to be Relapse 2," Em offered. "But then I got with Dre in Hawaii and started recording more, and now the new material has knocked out all the old songs. But yeah, the new material is definitely different.

"Making Relapse, I was still working the drugs out of my system, so there was a lot of ... just jokey sh--," he explained. "It was a lot of punch line-y, funny, shock value — kind of going back to The Slim Shady LP. And that was cool, but I've kind of flipped the page. Now I'm going for songs instead of one-liners. I don't want to make sh-- that you hear once and then the joke's over — I want to make records that you could play a hundred times, a thousand times."

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