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Eminem’s “Tobey” debuts on Billboard Hot 100

On Monday (July 8, 2024), Eminem dropped the much anticipated visuals for his song “Tobey,” which features verses from Detroit natives Big Sean and BabyTron. In the video below, directed by Cole Bennett, the three rappers can be seen delivering their respective rhymes while in various locations including a warehouse and a spaceship.

In one scene, BabyTron and Slim Shady can be seen hanging around what seems to be Eminem’s childhood home at 19946 Dresden St. in Detroit. It’s the same house on the cover of Em’s The Marshall Mathers LP—in the same brown patina, too. BabyTron raps about his certified G.O.A.T. status while walking around Em’s old residence. After the camera pans to Shady, he begins to rap about his humble beginnings, his mission to inspire the youth and much more while sitting on the porch of the home.

“Tobey Maguire got bit by a spider, but see, me, it was a goat/If you want space, I hope you take your helmet off soon as you get up to Venus and choke,” they rap on the chorus. “Even while sleepin’, be thinkin’ so woke/White Cartiers, all I’m seein’ is dope (Yeah)/My city Leia and I’m Obi-Wan, got a mission to pass, I just might be the hope.”

At the end, Em, donning a Jason mask, chainsaws someone off camera making a bloody mess. The camera then pulls back to reveal a chalk outline of a person (possibly of Slim Shady) who has left hand cut off but still showing middle finger. The “Tobey” music video was supposed to debut via YouTube on July 5 but was postponed to drop Yesterday.

The single itself was released on July 2 (Tuesday). Even though it had only 2.5 days to enter the charts, the song managed to debut inside Billboard Hot 100, at No. 95, making it the first ever entry for BabyTron on the prestigious charts.

Today in 2010, Eminem’s “Recovery” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard 200

On this day, exactly 13 years ago (July 11, 2010), Eminem’s “Recovery” album debuted at No. on the US Billboard 200 charts with first-week sales of 741,000 copies. It became Eminem’s sixth album to debut at No. 1 in the United States.

In its second week of release it remained at number-one and sold 313,000 copies. It also entered at number one on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Rap Albums chart. In its ninth week of release the album remained at number one for its seventh non-consecutive week.

Recovery debuted at No. 1 on the United Kingdom Albums Chart, selling 140,000 copies in its first week in the country. In Canada, the album sold 85,000 copies in its first week and debuted at No. 1 on Canada’s Albums Chart. The album spent six consecutive weeks at number one, and retook the top spot after one week at number two.

By the end of its release year, Recovery had sold over 5.7 million copies worldwide. It was one of the best-selling album of 2010 in the United States with 3.4 million copies, and it had sold 2.3 million copies in other territories for a total of 5.7 million copies worldwide by December 2010. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, it was also the best-selling album of 2010 worldwide. The album was the best-selling album in Canada in 2010 selling 435,000 copies; more than double the album in second place.

Recovery spawned four singles: “Not Afraid”, “Love the Way You Lie” with Rihanna, “No Love” with Lil Wayne, and “Space Bound”, with the former two both reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

In 2022, Recovery was certified 8x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), becoming Eminem’s third best-selling studio album behind The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and The Eminem Show (2002).

At the 2011 Grammy Awards, it was nominated for Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year; the latter two were for “Love the Way You Lie”. The album earned Eminem Grammy award, American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, among other awards.

You can revisit the album below:

Billboard ranks G-Unit at No. 19 on “50 Greatest Rap Groups of All Time,” snubs D12

Billboard magazine has released the final top 10 in their ranking of the 50 Greatest Rap Groups of All Time.

The magazine reports: In determining these rankings, the Billboard editorial team again took the following criteria into account, not in any specific order: body of work/achievements (charted singles/albums, gold/platinum certifications, other awards), cultural impact/influence (how the group’s work fostered the genre’s evolution), longevity (years at the mic), lyrics (storytelling skills) and flow (vocal prowess). Our definition of groups includes duos, proper groups and more nebulous collectives. Most notably, Inclusion on this list is based on the accomplishments of the group as a unit — not what the individuals may have separately accomplished. We tried to walk the line between what constitutes a group versus a collective or a crew, though at times that was not entirely clear.

50 Cent’s G-Unit was ranked at No. 19 but the list does not include Griselda, Slaughterhouse, D12 or Bad Meets Evil. You can check the entire list below:

1) OutKast
2) Wu-Tang Clan
3) N.W.A.
4) A Tribe Called Quest
5) Run-D.M.C.
6) Public Enemy
7) Eric B. & Rakim
8) Salt-N-Pepa
9) De La Soul
10) The Roots

11) Migos
12) Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
13) Mobb Deep
14) Fugees
15) Naughty By Nature
16) Beastie Boys
17) Cypress Hill
18) Three 6 Mafia
19) G-Unit
20) UGK

21) Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
22) The LOX
23) Sugarhill Gang
24) The Diplomats
25) Hot Boys
26) EPMD
27) DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
28) Geto Boys
29) Gang Starr
30) Clipse

31) Boogie Down Productions
32) 2 Live Crew
33) Goodie Mob
34) Brand Nubian
35) Pharcyde
36) Heiroglyphics
37) 8Ball & MJG
38) Big Tymers
39) Slum Village
40) Onyx

41) Little Brother
42) Heavy D & The Boys
43) Kid N Play
44) Kriss Kross
45) Pete Rock & CL Smooth
46) Yin Yang Twins
47) Rae Sremmurd
48) City Girls
49) Black Star
50) MOP

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Tyga says Eminem & Lil Wayne are the best rappers of all time

Billboard and Vibe Magazine have recently released a list of top 50 greatest rappers of all time which sparked big debate in hip-hop world. The list saw Jay-Z at number one, Eminem at number five and Lil Wayne at number seven. It seems, Tyga disagrees the rankings of popular magazines.

Taking on Twitter (March 24, 2023), Tyga crowned Lil Wayne and Eminem as two best rappers of all time: “Lil Wayne and Eminem are the best rappers of all time! Lyrical word play, delivery, flow, pockets, originality, raw, intentional, clarity, generational influence.” – he tweeted.

This is not the first time Tyga is showing love to Eminem. Last year, during one of the episodes of GOAT Talk with Complex magazine, Compton, California-born rapper gave shout out to Slim Shady and Weezy.

GOAT Talk is a show where Complex journalists ask today’s greats rappers to crown their all-time greats. One of the questions on the card was who is the greatest rapper of all time on which Tyga replied: “I am gonna have to go with like, prime Lil Wayne and prime Eminem, for me. I think those are my two favorite rappers. For sure.”

Check the entire thing in the video below:

Lil Wayne says he’s better than any other rapper Billboard listed, including Eminem

Billboard and Vibe magazines have recently unveiled an updated list of the 50 greatest rappers of all time and since then the hip-hop heads have been debating for weeks about the list that has Jay-Z at number one, Kendrick Lamar at number two, Nas and number three, Tupac at number four, Eminem at number five, Notorious B.I.G. at number six and Lil Wayne at number seven.

During an appearance on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music podcast show, Lil Wayne has entered into conversation and declared himself the greatest rapper of all time. Weezy says straight up, he is number one and even dares survey-takers to ask the emcees ranked higher than him how they feel about it. In his view, he thinks they would agree on the fact that Wayne is greater than them: “Bro, I am motherf–kin one. I mean, everybody they named, rest in peace, but they also know that I’m number one. Go ask them! Go ask them!”

Lil Wayne proved himself to be one of the best rappers to ever touch the microphone but is he really on Eminem’s level? The two have jumped on a track three times: “Drop The World,” “No Love” and “Forever,” by Drake, which also featured Kanye West. During the interview on Drink Champs, Weezy talked highly about those joints and gave Eminem his flowers: “I did a bunch of joints with Em, that’s ma man. When you get on that joint with Em it’s like a championship game, and you win it, and they ask you how does it feel. I came in with my game plan and I expected my game plan to work. When you send a song to Em you attack it like that, like Nah, yo not going to do me like this. Either we going be right here level with it, and we’re going to make a beautiful, wonderful great song, but you ain’t going do me that above me. And that’s what we did. Can nobody say anybody got bodied. I just made sure that he didn’t body me, cause that boy is a monster.”

For the recent Apple Music interview, hit the play button below:

Vote Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg & Eminem for Billboard’s “Best Super Bowl Show Ever”

We are few weeks away from Rihanna to take over the sage at the Super Bowl LVII halftime show on February 12, 2023. But before the pop superstar makes her triumphant return to the music stage, Billboard looks back on the iconic halftime spectacles that have come before her.

The 2023 game marks 30 years since Michael Jackson‘s Super Bowl performance of 1993, which marked the beginning of a new kind of halftime show.

Last year, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg headlined an epic hip-hop show with help from Eminem, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar and Anderson .Paak that electrified the hometown crowd at Los Angeles SoFi Stadium with hits like “The Next Episode,” ‘Still D.R.E.,” “California Love,” “Lose Yourself,” “In Da Club” and “No More Drama” among few others.

Now Billboard wants to reveal the best ever halftime show and you can VOTE 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:

Eminem earns his first ever No.1 song on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart

Last month DJ Khaled released star-studded new album “God Did” which includes a song “Use This Gospel (Remix)” with Kanye West and Eminem, produced by one and only Dr. Dre. As Ye previously said, the song is his daughter’s all time favorite song.

In an interview with Lowe, Khaled revealed how the remix ended up on the album. He stated that Ye had played him Jesus Is King Part II in full a year and half prior, calling it “incredible”. Even though West and Khaled had recorded a couple of tracks for God Did, they were never finished due to the rapper’s schedule. As part of a “last minute magic gift”, Khaled asked West if he could include the remix on God Did since it perfectly fit the album’s theme. According to Khaled, West loved the idea, which he joked “You know Ye don’t love no idea”. Before confirming the inclusion, West insisted on contacting both Dr. Dre and Eminem for their approval.

Musically, the remix is a gospel track, with rock undertones. The song is reminiscent of Slim Shady’s early 2000s work, though it features heavier drums. Em performs a fast pace Christian rap verse on the remix, replacing Clipse’s appearance on the original track. His verse is succeeded by a dubstep outro, contributed by Dr. Dre.

In the song, The Detroit legend expresses uncertainty about holding on, detailing combatting addiction and temptation while he has raised his daughters. Em also compares his controversies to West’s, places his faith in “the Father”, and thanks Jesus, concluding with: “Praises to Jesus, I will always.”

The song debuted at No. 1 on US Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart, giving Eminem his first ever chart-topper in this category.

Eminem & Snoop Dogg’s “From The D 2 The LBC” debuts on Billboard Hot 100 chart

Eminem and Snoop Dogg’s “From The D 2 The LBC” track entered into US Billboard Hot 100 charts at number 72.

The song’s title pays homage to the two legendary rappers’ respective cities, Detroit, Michigan, and Long Beach, California. It supposed to be included in Eminem’s upcoming “Curtain Call 2” album.

It marks Eminem’s 94th song into Billboard Hot 100. Em also has 5 No.1 hits and and 22 Top 10 hits.

By debuting the new single on Hot 100, Eminem has now charted at least one song for 14 consecutive years on the Billboard Hot 100 (2009-2022).

 

Nas, Eminem & EPMD’s “EPMD 2” debuts on Billboard Hot 100

According to Billboard, Nas’s “King’s Disease II” album lands at No. 3 on US Billboard 200 chart with over 56,000 total album-equivalent units sold.

This numbers are improvements compared to the first King’s Disease album, which debuted at No. 5 on the US Billboard 200 chart with 47,000 total album-equivalent units sold.

KD II chart debut marks Nas’ highest charting album since his 2012’s album, titled Life Is Good, which debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 chart with the sales of 149,000 copies.

The song “EPMD 2” which features Eminem and EPMD, debuted at No. 79 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100. It earned EPMD their third career entry on the chart and first since “The Joint” in 1997.

Billboard reveals highest paid hip-hop artists of 2020

Billboard has released the highest earning musicians in 2020 and in the hip-hop category, Post Malone and Drake are leading. You can check out the top ten highest paid rappers below.

NOTE: the revenue is ONLY from music, earned in the United States of America.

1. Post Malone – $23.2 million.

2. Drake – $14.2 million.

3. NBA YoungBoy – $11.9 million.

4. Lil Baby – $11.7 million.

5. Eminem – $9.7 million.

6. Lil Uzi Vert – $9.5 million.

7. DaBaby – $9.1 million.

8. Bad Bunny – $8.4 million.

9. Future – $8.2 million.

10. Roddy Ricch – $7.4 million.

Detailed numbers for Eminem

Streaming: $6.6M
Sales: $1.3M
Publishing: $1.8M
Touring: $0

For the detailed listing, visit Billboard here.

 

Check Eminem’s 2020 stats for Billboard, Spotify, YouTube, Deezer & more

Some of the statistics from big platforms like Billboard, Spotify, Deezer and YouTube are for Eminem are in. You can check out the data below.

Eminem’s Spotify statistics in 2020: 

Streams: 4.1 billion

Hours listened: 322 million

Listeners: 140 million

Countries: 92

Biggest debut: Music To Be Murdered By is No. 5 biggest debut albums this year with 52 million streams in the first day.

NOTE: This stats are only for Eminem as a lead artist. It does not include streams from D12, Bad Meets Evil and features.

Eminem on Billboard charts in 2020.

Award: Top artist from the 90’s on Billboard Year-End Chart

Highest charting album: Music To Be Murdered By debuted at No. 1

Highest charting single: “Godzilla,” featuring Juice WRLD peaked at No. 3

Total entries on Hot 100: 13 singles

Total entries on Billboard 200: 4 albums

Artists of the decade: No. 7 on Hip-Hop acts

Streaming service Deezer listed the acts with most superfans on platform in 2020:

1. Eminem
2. Beyoncé
3. BTS

Best selling digital albums by western artists in China of the 2020:

1. Taylor Swift — “folklore” — 979,658 units
2. Justin Bieber — “Changes” — 792,050 units
3. Eminem — “Music To Be Murdered By” — 325,318 units
4. Ariana Grande — “positions” — 137,846 units
5. Katy Perry — “Smile” — 39,338 units

Eminem Youთube stats in 2020:

  • More that 2 Billion views
  • 31st most viewed act of year!

List was made with the help of @eminemchart twitter.

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