Category: Charts News

Kendrick Lamar surpasses Eminem to become 3rd rapper with most Grammy wins

Last night, Kendrick Lamar won Best Rap Album category for Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers at the 2023 Grammy Awards.

Kendrick Lamar attended the show and accepted the award on the stage. His album was up against albums that offered incredibly stiff competition including DJ Khaled’s God Did, Pusha T’s It’s Almost Dry, Future’s I Never Liked You and Jack Harlow’s Come Home the Kids Miss You.

K. Dot also won Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song for “The Heart Part 5,” beating the likes of Jack Harlow, DJ Khaled, Future and Doja Cat.

The Compton’s finest took three awards in total, which means he’s now 3rd most winning rapper in history, behind Jay-Z and Kanye West, surpassing Eminem. You can check the list of most Grammy winners below:

1. Jay-Z – 25 Grammys (1 Best Rap Album);

2. Kanye West – 24 Grammys (4 Best Rap Album);

3. Kendrick Lamar – 17 Grammys (3 Best Rap Album);

4. Eminem – 15 Grammys (6 Best Rap Album);

5. Lauryn Hill – 8 Grammys (1 Best Rap Album);

6. Dr. Dre – 8 Grammys (0 Best Rap Album);

7. Outkast – 6 Grammys (2 Best Rap Album);

8. Lil Wayne – 5 Grammys (1 Best Rap Album);

9. Drake – 5 Grammys (1 Best Rap Album);

10. Childish Gambino – 5 Grammys (0 Best Rap Album);

11. Macklemore – 4 Grammys (1 Best Rap Album);

12. Will Smith – 4 Grammys (0 Best Rap Album);

13. Chance The Rapper – 3 Grammys (1 Best Rap Album);

14. Diddy – 3 Grammys (1 Best Rap Album);

15. T.I. – 3 Grammys (0 Best Rap Album);

16. Ludacris – 3 Grammys (1 Best Rap Album);

17. Nelly – 3 Grammys (0 Best Rap Album);

18. Tyler, The Creator – 2 Grammys (2 Best Rap Album).

Eminem still remains the rapper with the most wins in Best Rap Album category which is the most prestigious award for rappers. For the full list of 2023 winners, check here.

The Eminem Show hits 5 billion streams on Spotify

Eminem’s fourth solo studio album, The Eminem Show, has just surpassed 5 billion streams on Spotify becoming the only album from 2000s to hit this milestone.

According to Eminem Data on twitter, The Eminem Show is the most streamed album in Eminem‘s catalog. It is also the 54th most streamed album on the streaming platform and averages almost 5 million streams daily. Most streamed songs from the album are “Till I Collapse,” featuring Nate Dogg and “Without Me,” each with more than 1.5 billion streams.

Other most streams songs include “Superman” with 491 million streams, “Sing For The Moment” with 360 million and “Cleanin’ Out My Closet” with 310 million.

Eminem released The Eminem Show back in 2002 and debuted at  No. 1 on US Billboard 200 charts. It sold over 1.3 million copies in its second week in the United States and more than 25 million copies worldwide to date. It earned Eminem numerous awards including multiple Grammy awards and received the acclaim from critics. It is one of the two Eminem albums that is certified diamond by RIAA, after The Marshall Mathers LP.

Eminem said during an interview with MTV that he felt that Eminem Show was his “best record so far.”

You can revisit the classic hip-hop album below:

50 Cent receives 21 new RIAA certifications

Aftermath has just updated the sales certifications for 50 Cent and it looks so massive!

Twenty one of Fifty’s songs have been certified either multiple platinum, platinum or gold by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It includes a mega hit single “In Da Club” almost hitting Diamond and “Patiently Waiting” with Eminem going platinum.

You can check the full list of the new certifications below:

9x Platinum – “In Da Club”

5x Platinum – “Candy Shop,” featuring Olivia.

4x Platinum – “21 Questions,” featuring Nate Dogg.

3x Platinum – “Just A Lil’ Bit.”

3x Platinum – “Many Men (Wish Death).”

3x Platinum – “P.I.M.P.”

2x Platinum – “Disco Inferno.”

2x Platinum – “Ayo Technology,” featuring Justin Timberlake And Timbaland.

2x Platinum – “I’m The Man,” featuring Chris Brown.

 

Platinum – “I Get Money”

Platinum – “Patiently Waiting,” featuring Eminem.

Platinum – “Best Friend.”

Platinum – “Outta Control”

Platinum – “Hate It Or Love It,” by The Game, featuring 50 Cent.

Platinum – “Window Chopper.”

 

Gold – “If I Can’t”

Gold – “Get Up”

Gold – “My Life,” featuring Eminem and Adam Levine

Gold – “Baby By Me,” featuring Ne-Yo.

Gold – “Hustler’s Ambition.”

Gold – “What Up Gangsta.”

 

NOTE: Platinum means 1,000,000 unit sales in the United States. 5x Platinum means 5,000,000 sales and so on. Gold means 500,000 unit sales. Diamond equals to 10x Platinum which equals to 10,000,000 unit sales.

50 Cent shared the screenshot of his latest accolades on Instagram with the caption: “Can you imagine if i kept all my hits for my self.” On which producer Symbolyc One, who produced “My Life” for Fif, commented: “Honored to share a gold plaque with ya bro!” Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda also replied with fire emojis. You can check the post below:

 

Eminem was in Top 5 most viewed rappers on Genius in 2022

Image: Eminem performing at Super Bowl 2022

Genius, the biggest digital media company that provides annotations and interpretation to song lyrics, news stories, sources, poetry, and documents, has released the most viewed pages on their platform.

Topping the list of most viewed rappers in 2022 with more than 19 million pageviews is Kendrick Lamar, who dropped his long-waited critically-acclaimed album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers in May.

Joining Kendrick in the Top 6 are Kanye West, Juice WRLD, Drake, Eminem and YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a young talented rapper who released a bunch of music in 2022 while on house arrest in Utah.

Check out the Top 6 rappers of 2022 on Genius below. 

1. Kendrick Lamar – 19.5 million pageviews.

2. Kanye West – 17.5 million pageviews.

3. Juice WRLD – 14.9 million pageviews.

4. Drake – 14.2 million pageviews.

5. Eminem – 13.5 million pageviews.

6. YoungBoy Never Broke Again – 7 million pageviews.

Despite not released an album for almost 3 years, Em‘s lyrics managed to be one of the most viewed pages on Genius. His all time top 10 most viewed songs are:

1. Rap God – 17.9 million pageviews.

2. Killshot – 7 million pageviews.

3. Lose Yourself – 6.7 million pageviews.

4. Godzilla (ft. Juice WRLD) – 6.3 million pageviews.

5. The Monster (ft. Rihanna) – 4.8 million pageviews.

6. Lucky You (ft. Joyner Lucas) – 4.7 million pageviews.

7. Stan (ft. Dido) – 3.6 million pageviews.

8. Without Me – 3.5 million pageviews.

9. Venom – 3.2 million pageviews.

10. The Real Slim Shady – 3.2 million pageviews.

Shady Records two albums made into Complex’s 50 Best Albums of 2022

Westside Boogie‘s “More Black Superheroes” album has made into Complex’s 50 Best Albums of 2022 list at No. 16.

“Maturation is impossible in an echo chamber. Westside Boogie breaks a cycle of trauma and repeated mistakes on More Black Superheroes, an album dedicated to Black mental health. Beyond repeatedly advocating for more Black people to go to therapy (!!), Compton-born Boogie uses his second studio album to tell the story of how he reached this point, against all odds. In beautiful fashion, Boogie strings together stories about his upbringing and dealings with love to prove that anyone can heal, no matter where they’re from.” — Jordan Rose (Complex)

“More Black Superheroes” album is a second release under Eminem’s Shady Records, a follow-up of Boogie’s 2019 project, Everythings For Sale. The 12 tracks-project features Storm Ford on an intro track “Killa Mode,” Mamii on “Nonchalant,” Soulja Boy on “Can’t Even Lie,” Shelley FKA DRAM on “Aight,” Smino and Teezo Touchdown on “Can’t Get Over You,” Kalan.FrFr. and Mamii on “Something Strange,” and Snoop Dogg on “Windows Down.”

Later this year, Boogie also dropped the deluxe version of the album, adding six additional tracks, three out of which was completely new records and three was the audio version of his live performances.

“Super proud of this ..another win because of YALL ..I know y’all tired of me saying I love u but damn ..Now my next s–t betta be number 1 or I’m tripping. thank u Complex.” wrote Boogie on his Instagram.

Former Shady Records artist Conway The Machine also made into the list. His first and only Shady Records release God Don’t Make Mistakes occupied No. 41 spot.

“With critically acclaimed albums like La Maquina and From King to a GOD under his belt, Conway had already reached the upper echelon of rap lyricists before making God Don’t Make Mistakes, and he could have coasted if he wanted to. But he’s not the kind of guy to take it easy. Instead, he pushed himself to go even harder and made the most introspective, well-rounded album of his career. Throughout the project, he peels back the curtain on his personal life, sharing stories about getting shot (“Guilty”) and grappling with the deaths of family members (“Stressed”). He mixes this in with the usual hard-edged grit we’ve come to expect from Griselda (“Bruiser Brody”) and even throws in some streaming-friendly gems (“Scatter Brain”). His Shady Records debut has it all. — Eric Skelton (Complex)

The critically acclaimed project was commercial success for Conway. The album debuted at No. 175 on US Billboard 200 charts and reached No. 30 on UK’s Official Chart.

For the full list of 50 Best Albums of 2022, visit Complex here.

Eminem has 4 albums in Billboard’s 2022 Year-End chart

Image: Eminem at the Academy Awards 2020, performing “Lose Yourself”

Billboard unveiled the 200 highest performing albums of 2022 based on sales and chart positions and Eminem’s four albums made into the list.

Curtain Call: The Hits, the album that was released 17 years ago, is No. 45 on Billboard’s 2022 year-end chart. The greatest hits compilation album by Eminem is also the longest charting hip-hop album in history with over 600 weeks being on the charts.

The Eminem Show, the album that was released in 2002, occupies the No. 166 spot. Followed by the second greatest hits album Curtain Call 2 which was released at the end of the summer of this year. And the last Eminem album that appears on chart is Music To Be Murdered By at No. 191, which was released in 2020.

Eminem also appears three times on Billboard’s Global 200 singles year-end chat. His 2002 hit single “Without Me” holds the No. 63 spot, followed by “The Real Slim Shady” at No. 177 and Em’s magnum opus “Lose Yourself” at No. 120.

Marshall Mathers is also at No. 43 on Billboard’s Top 100 Artists year-end chart, higher than the likes of Ariana Grande, Megan Thee Stallion, BTS, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, The Beatles, Queen, Michael Jackson, Travis Scott, Lady Gaga, DJ Khaled and Coldplay.

For more details about the year-end charts, visit Billboard here and check the tweets below:

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