Tag: UK Charts

Eminem reaches a monumental career achievement on U.K. & U.S. chart

Following the Super Bowl performance, Eminem is celebrating a monumental career achievement: his greatest hits album, Curtain Call: The Hits, is the first hip-hop album to spend 500 weeks (and counting) on the United Kingdom charts.

Originally released back in December 2005 (debuting at No. 1 on UK charts), the record hasn’t left the album charts in the 17 years since. Even more notably, it has primarily remained in the Top 50 albums of the charts each week.

Curtain Call is charting at Number 8 this week in the UK. The 8x Platinum album last appeared in the Top 10 back in 2006.

Eminem’s greatest hits album and Dr. Dre’s “2001” album also see a massive boost in the United States Billboard charts and both albums sold +30,000 each this week. “Curtain Call: The Hits” is the longest-charting hip-hop album in history with almost 570 weeks on chart.

Ed Sheeran equals Eminem’s achievement on UK charts

Ed Sheeran’s new single “Bad Habits” (Asylum) debuts at No. 1 in the United Kingdom’s singles chart. “Bad Habits” notches 92,000 unit sales this week, including 8.7 million streams which gave the superstar singer his 10th U.K. number one.

“I’m absolutely over the moon, and did not expect this start at all. I’ve been away for such a long time that I know it’s gonna take a bit to get back to normal, so was expecting this tune to build as the weeks went on, but to debut so high week one is phenomenal, and something that after a decade in this industry I do not take for granted.” wrote Ed Sheeran on Instagram.

Ed becomes just the ninth act to reach that double-figures on the charts. The list goes like this:

Elvis Presley – 21 number one singles.

The Beatles – 17.

Cliff Richard and Westlife – 14.

Madonna – 13.

Only Take That – 12.

Eminem – 10.

Ed Sheeran – 10.

Calvin Harris – 10.

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