It’s Eminem’s 11th No. 1 album; Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ falls to No. 4 after 12 weeks atop the chart.
Eminem nets his 11th No. 1 album with “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce),” which earned 281,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. its first week, Billboard reported Sunday.
Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” which had spent 12 weeks at No. 1, falls to No. 4 on this week’s chart.
“The Death of Slim Shady” joins Eminem’s “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,” all of which arrived at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
That ties Eminem with with Kanye West, Bruce Springsteen and Barbara Streisand for fourth place on the list of artists with the most No. 1 albums in Billboard 200 chart history. Only the Beatles (19), Jay-Z, Taylor Swift (14 each) and Drake (13) have more. Elvis Presley and Future both have 10 No. 1 albums.
Eminem also now moves ahead of the Beatles on the list of artists with most consecutive No. 1 studio albums, a list topped by Swift (14) and followed by Jay-Z and Kanye West (11 each).
Eminem also topped the charts twice with D12 — 2001’s “Devil’s Night” and 2004’s “D12 World” both debuted at No. 1 — as well as with 2002’s “8 Mile” soundtrack, but those don’t count toward his individual chart achievements.
“The Death of Slim Shady” was released July 12. The 19-song collection finds Eminem wrestling with his alter ego, Slim Shady, as well as cancel culture, Gen Z and his past as an artist. The first single from the album, “Houdini,” debuted at No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, Eminem’s highest charting single in more than a decade. “The Death of Slim Shady” also marks the largest first week for any rap album so far in 2024.
K-pop group Enhyphen debuts at No. 2 with “Romance: Untold,” while Zach Bryan’s “The Great American Bar Scene” drops one spot to No. 3.
Swift’s album had been leading the chart since its release in April, and the singer toasted her 12-week run at the top in an Instagram post on Saturday. “It stayed at #1 for the first 12 weeks of its release and that’s never happened to an album of mine before, not even close!!” she wrote.
Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” rounds out the week’s top five.
agraham@detroitnews.com
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