The Eminem Show has the self-assurance of an artist at the top of his game and the game, the understanding that the music world is hanging on his every word and the willingness to shock even the most jaded ears.Īppropriately enough for a man closing in on thirty, The Eminem Show finds Eminem more mature and focused, if not kinder and gentler. And that’s not only because he reworks Aerosmith’s “Dream On,” on “Sing for the Moment.” The Eminem Show is a hybrid theory of Jay-Z’s hyperconfident The Blueprint, Staind’s pained Dysfunction and Tupac’s anti-hero masterpiece All Eyez On Me. Dina Rae) (released Januin U.With The Eminem Show, Eminem just may have made the best rap-rock album in history. The cassette also came with a poster and a t-shirt. On May 31, 2017, the cassette version of the album was reissued in honor of the 15th Anniversary of the album. The Eminem Show was Eminem's first album to be mainly self-produced. Eminem himself acknowledged during an interview with MTV that was recorded on May 25, 2002, that he felt that The Eminem Show was his 'best record so far'.

The album received critical praise by most music critics and is often debated as Eminem's most personal and best work. In 2003, the album was ranked #317 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and was later ranked at #84 on the same magazine's best albums of the 2000s decade. The album has gone on to sell over ten million copies and on March 7, 2011, it was certified ten-times-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, making it Eminem's first album to receive a Diamond certification in the United States.

The album topped the Billboard 200 for five consecutive weeks. The album sold 1,322,000 copies the following week, where it registered a full week of sales. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling approximately 284,000 units in its first week, which due to a premature release by retailers and street-date violations, counted only a day and a half of sales. At the Grammy Awards of 2003 it was nominated for Album of the Year and became Eminem's third LP in four years to win the award for Best Rap Album. It was the best-selling album of 2002 with sales of 7.6 million copies. The Eminem Show is the 3rd major label, the 4th overall LP and 5th overall album by Eminem, released on May 28, 2002.

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