True thriller is THE album

I remember lol

Albums were still selling crateloads then too

The album sales slump wasn't a thing til the mid-to-late 2000s tbh

Nelly, Em, 50, Luda, Jay, OutKast, etc, were flying off shelves. This is the Boy Band era we're talking about.

have you even heard about soulja boys method of getting famous?...

he put his songs up as "famous" songs and people started listening to it, it was really usual s*** back then

I mean...Kanye is definitely more musically relevant but he's not more famous than Eminem worldwide.

It was way easier back then. MJ wouldn't do anywhere near 7 million fw now.

Debateable

He's very popular overseas especially in India

HE SUCKS

Soulja Boy was 2007 my dude

Overall yeah but I mean at the time

Relapse sold 600K+ first week, Graduation did 957K and C3 did 1 Million

Revisionists. Dude has like diamond albums

Dog this literally proves my point. 2002 was the peak of CD sales lol

youre dense as f***

yeah i was agreeing with you i just wanted to show people what revenue was looking like in early 00s

yeah what a career that Eminem has fumbled😐

i think my parents stopped buying cds in mid 00s for itunes so it lines up

I still think Eminem is more well known than Kanye overseas. There's murals of Eminem in Cambodia and s*** lol.

You could argue Ye's more famous in North America though.

Thriller did 34 million in the USA as of 2021

based on this graph something tells me that streaming services may increase their monthly rates in the near future

Lotta dull bulbs itt lol

Record sales began to tank in 04-05, between leaks and iTunes albums were down terrible by that point. 2002-2003 was like peak music industry, s*** was filthy. NSYNC went double platinum first week in 2000 lol

I'm not a fan but he didn't fumble anything

He was very popular, one of the best selling artists of all time and had great longevity and would still do decent numbers today

Anyone saying em didn’t fumble his career lmao