Eminem's latest anthology Recovery has accomplished the near-impossible by traveling platinum in just two weeks. On this week's Billboard charts, Eminem racked up sales of 313,000 copies of the LP, blame the admirable absolute to 1.1 million. "With Recovery, we get the raw, smart, amusing and able Eminem that led us to apprehend in 1999 that this guy is the real," Violet Brown, Director of Urban Music at Transworld Entertainment, tells Rsolling Stone. "Everyone was cat-and-mouse for this moment to reappear and he brought it." By comparison, it took Eminem's Relapse four weeks in 2009 to cantankerous the platinum mark, and because Relapse was that year's top-selling hip-hop release, Recovery is able-bodied on its way against getting 2010's acknowledged rap album.
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Other big sales this anniversary included Drake's Thank Me Later (105,000 copies in three weeks) and a 69-percent sales fasten in the Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack, which confused 65,000 copies and rose Number 10 endure anniversary to Number Three on the chart. Only two debuts absurd this week's Top 10: The-Dream's third LP Love King entered at Number Four with 58,000 copies awash and 3OH!3's Streets of Gold angled at Number Seven with 41,000 copies.
Despite Eminem's big week, all-embracing sales of were still down 20 percent compared to the aforementioned anniversary in 2009. 2010's absolute albums awash (154 million) aswell aisle 2009's up to this point in the year (172.9 million) by 11 percent.
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