Eminem’s ‘Recovery’ album is still slaying all the competition a month after its release.
The album has been an unexpected worldwide smash hit, debuting at the top of the charts in the US, the UK, Canada, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Switzerland, New Zealand and Australia.The amazing thing is, four weeks after its release, it remains at the top of the US charts with sales that triple the album in the number two slot.
Recovery sold 194, 072 copies last week according to SoundScan. The number two album, Korn's comeback Korn III: Remember Who You Are selling a measly 61,704 copies in its debut week.
The album has sold over one and a half million copies in a month, and has already gone platinum in the US, Switzerland and Australia.
Pundits have speculated exactly why Recovery has been so huge, considering Relapse was a relative flop for a superstar like Em.
Most are attributing it to mainstream media appearances, such as his self-deprecating Letterman slot, his BET Awards performance, and cameos on The Soup, E!, and at press conferences with Usher, will.i.am and Rihanna.
Recovery was the fifth highest-selling album of 2010 before this most recent week, and there's little doubt that by the end of the year it will hit the top slot there too.
