Slim Shady has defeated the Swifties. Eminem‘s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) debuts atop The Billboard 200 today, giving the Detroit rapper his 11th No.
1 album. It ends the 12-week reign of Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Department, leaving her a week short of tying a nearly 50-year-old record.
Only Stevie Wonder’s Grammy-winning classic Songs in the Key of Life spent more weeks on top (13) after debuting at No. 1. It later added a 14th nonconsecutive week.
Eminem was the first artist to score 10 straight No. 1-debuting albums. The Death of Slim Shady is the 15-time Grammy winner’s first album since Music to Be Murdered By, which streeted just before the Covid lockdown.
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