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11-17-2004, 11:40 AM
I thought he would be big on this message board...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&e=1&u=/nm/20041117/music_nm/leisure_eminem_dc
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Eminem (news - web sites) fans have turned out en masse to snap up their rap idol's newest album, propelling it to No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts after just three days in release.
"Encore," the fourth album from the Oscar-winning bad-boy of hip-hop, registered one of the biggest openings of the year by selling just over 700,000 copies in the week ended Nov. 14, according to Nielsen SoundScan data provided on Tuesday by his Interscope Records label.
But while most albums are released on a Tuesday, allowing them to garner six days' worth of sales before the books are closed on Sunday, Interscope released "Encore" four days ahead of schedule last Friday to combat physical and online piracy.
The 32-year-old rapper also topped the UK charts with a two-day sales total of 122,500 copies.
His last album, 2002's "The Eminem Show," which was also moved up on the release schedule, debuted at No. 1 in the United States with 284,500 copies after just one day of official release. As is common with rap albums, both his albums went on sale in many outlets at least a day or two ahead of the official street date.
The score for "Encore" represents the fourth-best debut this year, behind R&B singer Usher's "Confessions" (1.1 million copies), jazz singer Norah Jones (news)' "Feel Like Home" (1.0 million) and country star Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying" (766,000).
Eminem, who won the original song Academy Award last year, is generating heavy MTV airplay for his new anti-war animated video "Mosh," in which he leads the disaffected masses through the streets so that they can register to vote.
Interscope Records is a unit of Vivendi Universal SA's Universal Music Group.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&e=1&u=/nm/20041117/music_nm/leisure_eminem_dc
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Eminem (news - web sites) fans have turned out en masse to snap up their rap idol's newest album, propelling it to No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts after just three days in release.
"Encore," the fourth album from the Oscar-winning bad-boy of hip-hop, registered one of the biggest openings of the year by selling just over 700,000 copies in the week ended Nov. 14, according to Nielsen SoundScan data provided on Tuesday by his Interscope Records label.
But while most albums are released on a Tuesday, allowing them to garner six days' worth of sales before the books are closed on Sunday, Interscope released "Encore" four days ahead of schedule last Friday to combat physical and online piracy.
The 32-year-old rapper also topped the UK charts with a two-day sales total of 122,500 copies.
His last album, 2002's "The Eminem Show," which was also moved up on the release schedule, debuted at No. 1 in the United States with 284,500 copies after just one day of official release. As is common with rap albums, both his albums went on sale in many outlets at least a day or two ahead of the official street date.
The score for "Encore" represents the fourth-best debut this year, behind R&B singer Usher's "Confessions" (1.1 million copies), jazz singer Norah Jones (news)' "Feel Like Home" (1.0 million) and country star Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying" (766,000).
Eminem, who won the original song Academy Award last year, is generating heavy MTV airplay for his new anti-war animated video "Mosh," in which he leads the disaffected masses through the streets so that they can register to vote.
Interscope Records is a unit of Vivendi Universal SA's Universal Music Group.