The reason why Eminem is the GOAT of Hip Hop World
It’s GOATs birthday- Happy Birthday Eminem. Known by so many names – Slim Shady, Marshall Mathers, Rap God, Eminem is the white boy in the Hip Hop World who has taken the rap game by storm. When so many rappers came & went, Eminem, is still going strong, and seems like he has no plans to leave it. During his XXL Magazine interview, Eminem said that he still wants to be the best in the game and will not leave soon.
During the course of his lengthy rap career, Eminem has done a great deal to garner noteworthy attention. The musician has managed to remain to ensure validity in the challenges and triumphs of his private affairs and changes in the music business, thanks to his famed beefs with other artists, his contentious lyrics, and his high-profile performances.
When Eminem proclaimed to him the Rap God back in 2013, he wasn’t kidding. Why wouldn’t he be? Throughout his more than 20-year career in the rap game, Marshall Mathers had the title of the best-selling artist for a given era at one time. Despite this, he later showed his ability to produce results without any form of advertising. In his nearly two-decade career, he has been up for 505 awards and has won 340 of them, including 13 Grammys and an Academy Award. Eminem has sold over 42 million singles and 49.1 million albums in the United States, as well as hundreds of millions of records overseas. It’s evident that “Rap God” is more than simply a song title for him; it’s his legacy.
On his 50th Birthday let’s look at Eminem’s 20 incredible achievements that spanned over his illustrious career & making him the GOAT. Let’s Go:
1) Eminem becomes the artist with the most gold and platinum singles certifications in history.
His one of the latest achievements that came this year. Eminem currently has a total of 227.5 million RIAA Award certifications in his career, which includes 61.5 million album certifications and 166 million single certifications.
📣 With 73.5 million NEW certified units, @Eminem is now the #1 singles artist in Gold & Platinum history! 💥 166 MILLION career Single Awards! @Interscope @ShadyRecords #Aftermath 🔗 https://t.co/V4yPacatoW pic.twitter.com/dtnDwk41IO
— RIAA (@RIAA) March 8, 2022
2) He became the first artist to have ten straight number-one albums.
After the well-received surprise drop of Music to Be Murdered By in the initial months of 2020, Eminem made history by becoming the first performer to have 10 straight number-one records.
3) He won Best Rap Album three times in a row.
During his height in the 2000s, Eminem delivered three iconic albums in quick succession: The Slim Shady LP (1999), The Marshall Mathers LP (2000), and The Eminem Show (2002), all of which won the Grammy for Best Rap Album.
4) He became the first rapper to win an Academy Award.
Eminem made history on March 23, 2003, when he became the first rapper to appear on the illustrious Oscar Awards stage and won big, defeating U2, Paul Simmons, and others in the process.
5) The only artist since 1964 to have four lead tracks on the Hot 100 chart’s top 20.
In November 2013, Eminem made history by being the first performer to have at least 4 songs reach the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 as a leading musician since the Beatles in 1964.
6) Only Rapper to give an official English word.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Stan was one of the most pivotal events in contemporary culture. As a common slang term for ardent followers, “Stan” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017.
7) Most likes for a male musician on Facebook.
With 60.1 million likes, Eminem just broke the record for the most likes received by a live individual, crushing the opposition and placing #5 among the top 10 Facebook pages.
8) The best-selling performer of the 2000s.
Eminem had a total album sales run from 2000 to 2010 of 32.2 million, making him the best-selling artist of the period. With 30 million, The Beatles came in second place.
9) The First rapper to get the MTV Europe Music Global Icon Award.
Eminem became the first hip-hop artist to win the Global Icon Award when he accepted it at the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards.
10) The First performer in Nielsen SoundScan history to have two best-selling albums at the end of the year.
By selling 3.42 million copies, Eminem’s Recovery took first place for the year’s best-selling album. When The Eminem Show sold 7.61 million copies in 2002, he already received the same award. He became the only artist to do so since Nielsen began keeping track of music sales in 1991, making him the year’s top-selling album for two consecutive years.
11) He was the fastest-selling album in hip-hop history.
The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem, the fastest-selling album in hip-hop ever, sold an amazing 1,760,049 copies in its first week. It did twice that many copies in its first week as Snoop Dogg’s 1993 album Doggystyle, the previous rap record holder (800,000 copies)
12) Eminem became the first artist to receive 10 Grammy nominations in a single night since 2005 when he received 10.
Eminem received 10 Grammy nominations in one night for Recovery, including Best Rap Song, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best Music Video, as well as Best Rap Album and Best Rap Solo Performance for Not Afraid.
13) Most entries jumped on US hot 100 charts.
Eminem with Akon on Smack That was the most entries jumped in US Hot 100 chart. The song achieved number one on ten other record charts and peaked in the top ten on nine of them, including the Billboard Hot 100, where it reached number two. It achieved many gold and platinum awards and sold over three million downloaded in the United States.
14) Spotify’s most-streamed non-single.
Even though it was never launched as a single, “Till I Collapse” did chart a few times when different Eminem albums were released. The Recording Industry Association of America certified it double-platinum in 2012 for sales of 2,000,000 copies in the United States. This was joined in 2018 by quintuple-platinum and octuple-platinum in 2022.
15) Hip Hop album with the most Billboard 200 chart weeks.
Encore was named the longest-running rap album for 517 weeks in Billboard 200 history. Curtain Call: The Hits is Eminem’s first greatest hits collection.
16) Eminem has the record for the fastest rap delivery.
Eminem now holds the record with his performance of “Godzilla,” in which he is able to fit 225 words into a single 30-second stretch, averaging 7.5 words per second.
17) Most albums to have over one billion streams on Spotify.
The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show, Encore, Curtain Call: The Hits, Relapse, Recovery, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Revival, Kamikaze, and Music to Be Murdered By were streamed over a billion times each on Spotify.
18) Rapper with most Diamond albums in RIAA history.
Eminem is the first and only rapper with three diamond-certified hip-hop albums. The Eminem Show (2002) is his best-selling disc at 12 million units, per RIAA. His other Diamond-certified sets are “The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)” and the 2005 compilation “Curtain Call: The Hits”.
19) Most words in a hit single (USA)
Eminem’s “Rap God” from The Marshall Mathers LP 2 contains the most words rapped in a hit song, which is defined as a track that opened within the Top 15 of the US Billboard 200.
20) The largest vocabulary for a recorded artist.
According to a survey conducted by Musixmatch, Eminem has the highest vocabulary among the 99 top-selling acts of all time, with 8,910 distinct words used in the lyrics of his 100 longest singles.
