The “I’m Not Afraid” crooner and one of the best rappers of all time, Eminem who’s also known as Slim Shaddy has achieved yet another enviable feat in his musical career, this comes as the Detroit based rapper has officially become one of the best selling musical artistes globally. Worthy to mention is the fact that this comprises of all musical genres, so this is not limited to the rap genre.
According to the ranking built on the Chart Masters ‘Commensurate Sales to Popularity Concept’, which includes data from album sales, song downloads, audio and video viewing from streamlining platforms.
Meanwhile, artistes whose fame and popularity has lasted for decades has an advantage of massive physical sales, of which Eminem has high selling numbers of both his physical albums and singles as well, equally, his ever growing streaming numbers/data and undisputed consistency were all factors favourable to the rapper.
And now, with his over 207 million sales in the course of his career, Eminem was able to displace rock legendary artiste, Led Zeppelin to No.11 while himself occupies the number ten (10) spot on the Chart Masters list. Though this didn’t just come as a magic as Eminem who’s also known as Marshall, has been working so hard consistently, as such, in 2020, he made it to the number fifteen (15) spot on their rating list, with a total of 181 million sales.
On the other hand, Eminem is only 1.3 million sales away from taking up the number nine (9) spot on the rankings which is currently being occupied by legendary Elton John. The next best selling rapper on the list is Drake, and with 120 million sales/units he’s ranked at number forty-one (42).
Whereas, on the issue of the best selling soloist artists, Eminem is comfortably seated on the number three (3) spot, only behind late King of Pop, Michael Jackson and Madonna.
The Beatles are seated the all-time best-selling artist list.
