Music Minute!

Did you know that Eminem is currently ranked as the best-selling Hip-Hop artist of the SoundScan era (1991 to present)?

As of January 1st 2012, Eminem sold over 41,166,000 albums and 42,290,000 digital singles in the US since his debut in November 1996. He is currently the only rapper among the top 10 best-selling albums artists – he is placed at #7 on the list – and he is ranked at #3 – higher than any other Hip-Hop act – on the lineup of highest-selling digital singles artists. Lil Wayne is positioned at #7 among digital track sellers with 36,788,000 downloaded singles and Kanye West is at #9 with 30,242,000.

Incredibly, Eminem is also the only Hip-Hop act with a record ranked among the top 20 top-selling albums of the SoundScan era. However, he doesn’t just have one album in the top 20; he has two!

Eminem’s ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’ has thus far sold 10,539,730 copies in the US and ‘The Eminem Show’ has sold 10,028,990. Those diamond-certified albums are currently placed as the 14th and 18th highest-selling albums of the SoundScan era, respectively, and are the only Hip-Hop records with sales exceeding 10 million copies.

Watch the video for Eminem’s biggest US hit from the ’The Marshall Mathers LP’, ‘The Real Slim Shady’, which peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, below:

Now you know!