4 in its third week but surged 33 percent to finish with sales close to 430,000. The album racked up first-week sales of nearly 441,000 and with close to 324,000 scans the second week for a two week stay at number one. Eminem has to date sold more than 65 million albums.Curtain Call: The Hits debuted at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart, after two sales days, in a similar fashion to Eminem's previous album Encore. Each of his first three albums also won the Best Rap Album Grammy ( Encore will be eligible for the 2006 presentation). The three most recent charted #1 Pop and #1 R&B/Hip-Hop, with his major-label debut #2 Pop and #1 R&B/Hip-Hop. Dre), and "Cleanin' Out My Closet" (#4 Pop/#5 Rap).Ĭurtain Call: The Hits spans contributions from all four of Eminem's major-label solo albums: 1999's quadruple-platinum The Slim Shady LP, 2000's nine-times-platinum The Marshall Mathers LP, 2002's eight-times-platinum The Eminem Show, and 2004's Encore, which is almost five times platinum. Also heard are "The Way I Am" (Top 30 Rap), "Stan" (featuring Dido) (Top 40 R&B/Hip-Hop), "Sing for the Moment" (Top 20 Pop/Rap), "Guilty Conscience" (featuring Dr. The other Grammy winners included are "My Name Is" (Top 40 Pop/#10 Rap) and "The Real Slim Shady" (#4 Pop/#7 Rap). In addition, the Curtain Call bonus track marks the album premiere of the controversial Eminem-Elton John live duet of "Stan" from the 2001 Grammy Awards presentation.Įxecutive produced by the nine-time Grammy winner, Curtain Call boasts all five of Eminem's gold and platinum singles to date, from the platinum, Oscar, and two-time Grammy-winning "Lose Yourself" (#1 Pop/#2 Rap) from the 8 Mile soundtrack and platinum "Just Lose It" (#6 Pop/#7 Rap) and "Mockingbird" (#11 Pop/#10 Rap) to the gold "Without Me" (#2 Pop/#5 Rap) and "Like Toy Soldiers" (Top 40 Pop). The first disc of Curtain Call includes three new songs-"Fack," "Shake That" (featuring Nate Dogg) and "When I'm Gone"-both written and produced by Eminem. Also included on the bonus CD is "Sh*t on You" (featuring D12), which until now has never been released on CD. Diddy and "Renegade" (featuring Jay-Z), a legendary duet from Jay-Z's classic The Blueprint album. Dre & Mel Man-produced "Kill You." The mixtape also includes two tracks previously unavailable on any Eminem album-the "Dead Wrong RMX" (featuring the Notorious B.I.G.), notably co-produced by P. Dre & Mel Man-produced "Role Model." From The Marshall Mathers LP are "Criminal" and the Dr. Among the seven tracks are two from The Slim Shady LP: the #5 Rap "Just Don't Give a F***" and the Dr. The Stan's Mixtape bonus CD on this two-disc deluxe edition finds the main character in "Stan" bringing together his favorite Eminem songs.
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