Eminem’s “Curtain Call: The Hits” sets Billboard 200 Record.
Eminem’s 2005 greatest hits project “Curtain Call: The Hits” has created a Billboard historic record of spending a total of 500 weeks (Around 10 Years) on the US Billboard 200 Albums chart. It is most by a Hip-Hop album, the closest to it is Kendrick Lamar’s “Good Kid Mad City” with 417 weeks on the chart, and Drake’s “Take Care” on the third spot with 400 weeks.
“Curtain Call: The Hits,” Eminem’s greatest hits album from 2005, is within the Top 50 on this week’s Billboard 200 rankings, marking the record’s 520th week on the charts (10.1 years). The album has now spent a decade in the charts, making it the first hip-hop album to do so.
It was previously the sixth-longest-running album on the Billboard 200 chart, trailing only Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (958 weeks), Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Legend (669 weeks), Journey’s Greatest Hits (659 weeks), Metallica’s Black Album (598 weeks), and Guns N Roses’ Greatest Hits (520 weeks).
Eminem also holds the number 4th and 5th spot with “The Eminem Show” (396 weeks) and “Recovery” (320 weeks). Eminem’s “Curtain Call: The Hits” recently gone 8x platinum in the UK.
“Lose Yourself,” “The Real Slim Shady,” “My Name Is,” “Stan,” and two previously unheard tracks, “When I’m Gone” and “Shake That,” are among the smashes on Em’s blockbuster Curtain Call.
Most Billboard 200 Weeks for Hip-Hop Albums
500 – Eminem – Curtain Call
417 – Kendrick – GKMC
400 – Drake – Take Care
396 – Eminem – TES
352 – Drake – NWTS
346 – 2Pac – Greatest Hits
320 – Eminem – RecoveryDrake 3rd rapper ever with a 400 week album
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— Hip Hop By The Numbers (@HipHopNumbers) November 2, 2020
