Eminem’s “Curtain Call: The Hits” turns 15.
On this day 15 years ago, Eminem released his first greatest hits compilation album “Curtain Call: The Hits” through Aftermath, Interscope, and Shady Records. The project was Eminem’s fifth straight number 1 album in the US and UK. The album which is certified 7x platinum in the US, recently went 8x platinum in the UK.
Last month, the album created a record of Hip-Hop album which most Billboard 200 weeks as it surpassed 500 weeks on the chart.
Curtain Call jumped 133 positions from No. 183 to No. 51 on the Billboard 200. The addition of Eminem’s chart-topping song “Lose Yourself,” which he performed at the Oscars, gave the album a big boost. Following the event, “Lose Yourself” saw a roughly 2,000 percent spike in downloads and returned to Spotify’s worldwide and US Top 200 rankings, rocketing the accompanying best hits collection up the charts.
Aftermath Entertainment, Shady Records, and Interscope Records jointly published Curtain Call 2, Eminem’s second greatest hits collection, on August 5, 2022. It is a double album and the follow-up to Curtain Call: The Hits, his last greatest hits collection, which was released in 2005.
The album sold 43,000 album-equivalent units in its first week and debuted at number six on the US Billboard 200. It is Eminem’s 12th top-10 album in the US and his first to not debut at number one since The Slim Shady LP, ending his string of ten consecutive number-one albums. It also made its UK Albums Chart debut at number three.
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2004: Eminem drops his greatest hits compilation Curtain Call
What’s his best song ever? pic.twitter.com/n22w6KMWJQ
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) December 6, 2020
Eminem’s album Curtain Call turns 15 today, released Dec 6, 2005
This video is from Eminem’s website around that time.
It ran on loop with Eminem’s hit songs playing. pic.twitter.com/E4YcJVNzmL
— WickedWays (@flowstoowet) December 6, 2020
