Eminem Nearly Sells 500,000 Albums, Kamikaze First-Week Sales Revealed

Written By Cyrus Langhorne

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Grammy-winning rapper Eminem‘s selling ability hasn’t skipped a beat. Slim Shady’s new Kamikaze album easily dominated its competition with nearly 500,000 sold copies in its opening week.

According to reports, Marshall Mathers’ surprise LP debuted atop the sales chart with well over 400,000 units.

Eminem earns his ninth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his surprise release Kamikaze debuts at No. 1. The set, which was released without warning on Aug. 31 via Shady/Aftermath/Interscope Records, earned 434,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 6, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 252,000 were in traditional album sales. (Billboard)

A few days ago, Em’s manager Paul Rosenberg announced the LP’s physical copies had arrived in stores.

Some reports speculated Kamikaze could have one of the best opening sales weeks of 2018.

Industry forecasters suggest the effort — which was released without warning on Aug. 31 via Shady/Aftermath/Interscope Records — may bow with over 360,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 6. That sum would land Kamikaze the fifth-biggest week of 2018 for an album, trailing only the debut weeks of Drake’s Scorpion (732,000 units; according to Nielsen Music), Travis Scott’s Astroworld (537,000), Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys (461,000) and J. Cole’s KOD (397,000). (Billboard)

Recently, Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James hyped up the LP’s greatness.

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Written by Cyrus Langhorne

SOHH.com Writer. When I'm not covering hip-hop news and announcements, I'm deep into an Audible book and eating veggies.

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