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Genius lists Top Albums of 2024, based on their data

One way to score a massive album this year was to put your title in all caps or no caps. Genius’ list of the Top 10 albums of 2024 as determined by the pageviews of their platform contains eight LPs whose titles employ such unorthodox approaches to capitalization. It’s like the only way to get people’s attention anymore is to shout or whisper.

It’s not even remotely surprising which artist led the way this year. Taylor Swift has been the most famous person on the planet for about a decade, and since the launch of her Eras Tour in 2023, she’s somehow become even bigger and more beloved. If she was enjoying an imperial phase before, now she’s now something like a benevolent global overlord. Just look at the last 12 months. In February, she won the Super Bowl, and then on April 19, she dropped THE TORTURED POETS’ DEPARTMENT, an album that ballooned to 31 tracks due to the day-of surprise-release of an anthology edition. It was a feast, and Swifties were very ready to dig in.

Eminem holds the second place. Labeled as one of the biggest comebacks in recent years, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace) debuted at No. 1 on Billboard 200, making Eminem his 11th album to top the chart, tying him with Barbra Streisand, Kanye West, and Bruce Springsteen for the fifth highest number of albums to reach the summit. It also earned Em 8th nomination at the Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album, after winning six of them.

Check the list of The Top Albums Of 2024 According To Genius Data below.

  1. THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY, Taylor Swift
  2. The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), Eminem
  3. Short n’ Sweet, Sabrina Carpenter
  4. HIT ME HARD AND HIT ME SOFT, Billie Eilish
  5. CHROMAKOPIA, Tyler, The Creator
  6. Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, Charli xcx
  7. eternal sunshine, Ariana Grande
  8. GNX, Kendrick Lamar
  9. VULTURES 1, Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign
  10. WE DON’T TRUST YOU, Metro Boomin and Future



Eminem’s “Rap God” is trending on Genius

“Rap God” by Eminem from his 2013 The Marshall Mathers LP 2 album is currently trending on Genius. The song has 18.1 million total views and is currently occupying No. 4 spot, averaging 90 views per half an hour.

Screenshot from Genius charts.

By the time the song was released, it entered the Guinness World Records as the hit single that contains the most words; it has 1,560 words. The song was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance but lost to Kendrick Lamar’s “i” single.

In the United States, “Rap God” debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It also debuted at No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart with over 270,000 downloads sold. Since its release, the song has been certified 5x Platinum by the RIAA. The song is close to 1 billion streams on Spotify.

Another song that is currently trending on Genius is Eminem’s “Mockingbird” from Encore (2004) album which is sitting on 18th place on the charts. The song has recently joined the Billion Views club on Spotify and became 7th Eminem song to reach 1 billion mark.

 

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.

Eminem was named Genius community’s “Lyricist of the Year”

Eminem becomes the winner from a fan-voted online bracket challenge set by Genius community.

Slim Shady has emerged victorious from a competitive field of sixteen rappers, beating Lil Uzi Vert in the final round to become the winner of the Genius Community’s Lyricist Of The Year.

To take the crown, Eminem bested Black Thought in the first round, then the rap god defeated Big Sean in the second round. Then he overtook Freddie Gibbs in the third round. In the fourth and final round, Eminem squared off with Lil Uzi Vert. Check out the official post below.

https://twitter.com/Genius/status/1338907388594810882

Being third decade in the game, Eminem still managed to surprise hip-hop listeners with his rapping abilities with the release of Music To Be Murdered By. The album sold 279,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, debuting at No. 1 on US Billboard 200.

Eminem became the first artist in history to have 10 consecutive No. 1 albums. The album feature two singles: “Darkness” and “Godzilla,” featuring Juice WRLD. Em also dropped his verses on Kid Cudi’s “The Adventures of Moon Man & Slim Shady,” Jessie Reyez’ “Coffin,” and Big Sean’s “Friday Night Cypher.”

 

VOTE: Eminem for Genius’ “Lyricist of the Year” final round !

Genius, the biggest lyrics platform in the world, is doing a poll on their Instagram to determine the lyricist of the year with the help from hip-hop fans.

Genius picked 16 of 2020’s best emcees to compete in the Genius community’s Lyricist Of The Year bracket challenge.

On Wednesday, fans voted in the semi finals to choose the two lyricists that will go head to head in today’s final round and here they are: Eminem and Lil Uzi Vert.

In 2020, Eminem released Music To Be Murdered By and the only album that outsold (excluding posthumous albums) it was Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake.

But this is lyrical contest, so you better go on Genius’ Instagram story and vote for Eminem.

>>> VOTE HERE <<<

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