Eminem’s Recovery Number 1

27/06/2010

Leading US rapper and record producer Eminem claims his sixth UK number one in the Official Albums Chart today with his latest release Recovery leaping straight to the top spot, Official Charts Company figures confirm.

Recovery follows last year’s Relapse which was also number one and marked a triumphant comeback after more than four years without releasing any new material. 

Recovery started out as a sequel to Relapse and was planned as Relapse 2 but, Eminem explains:

“As I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album.  The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title.”

Since releasing his major-label debut The Slim Shady LP in 1999 (which peaked at number ten, the only one of Eminem’s albums not to reach number one), Eminem has sold more than 78 million albums worldwide, including over 7.5 million in the UK.  He has won eleven Grammies and an Academy Award for his song Lose Yourself which he wrote for the film 8 Mile High in which he also starred.

Eminem’s previous UK number one albums are: Encore (2004), The Eminem Show (2002), The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and compilation album Curtain Call – The Hits (2005).

This week he also has two Top 10 singles in the Official Singles Chart, Not Afraid at number five (up from last week’s number six) and a new entry at number seven, I Love The Way You Lie featuring Rihanna.

Elsewhere in the Official Albums Chart Top 10 there are two other new entries: UK rapper Example’s debut album Won’t Go Quietly at number four and Miley Cyrus’s biggest UK hit to date Can’t Be Tamed at number eight.  The Black Eyed Peas’ evergreen album The End is a re-entry at number three up from last week’s number forty.

In the Official Singles Chart Katy Perry’s California Gurls featuring Snoop Dogg leaps straight to number one, giving Perry her second UK number one after I Kissed A Girl (2008).  For guest rapper Snoop Dogg, this marks a first ever UK number one single after more than twenty Top 40 hits over a seventeen year career.

California Gurls is the first single from Perry’s forthcoming album Teenage Dream, the follow-up to her debut One Of The Boys which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and spawned the hit singles Hot ‘n’ Cold (number four) and Waking Up in Vegas (number  nineteen) as well as I Kissed A Girl. 

The only other new entry in Official Singles Chart Top 10 is as previously mentioned Eminem’s I Love The Way You Lie featuring Rihanna at number seven.

Notes to Editors:

1.   Chart information quoted from this release must be credited to The Official Charts Company

2.  The Official Charts Company (OCC) is a joint venture between record labels’ body the BPI and ERA, the Entertainment Retailers Association.   The OCC is responsible for the commissioning, marketing, distribution and management of the UK’s industry standard music and video charts and is endorsed by the BVA (British Video Association).

3. The Official Charts Company compiles its charts from sales information gathered across all key distribution (or entertainment) channels including all major high street retail chains, independent stores, supermarkets, mail order internet retailers and digital music service providers. This market research sample equates to 99% of the total UK Singles market; 98% of the total UK Albums market and 90% of the total UK DVD market.

For further information contact:
Amy Howard, Official Charts Company.
T: 01480 860 530  M. 07768 891 264
E: amy@theofficialcharts.com
W:  www.theofficialcharts.com
The Official Chart Update with Greg James, 3.30pm-4pm, BBC Radio 1
The Chart Show with Reggie Yates, Sunday 4pm-7pm, BBC Radio 1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/

Ends.               

 

Back to press articles