Months after he released his new album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce), Eminem’s latest project has largely fallen away from the charts in the United Kingdom. The set still holds on and makes a home on the Official Hip-Hop and R&B Albums list, but its success doesn’t extend beyond that one tally.
While the most recent full-length added to his discography may not be the sturdiest win in his catalogue, Eminem has several other projects performing better than The Death of Slim Shady. His most successful at the moment, and in most instances, is Curtain Call: The Hits, a compilation of his most popular singles. This frame, Curtain Call reaches a momentous milestone on the Official Album Streaming chart, the U.K.’s list of the most-streamed full lengths in the nation.
As of this moment, the compilation has now lived on that ranking, which features 100 spaces, for 520 weeks, or exactly a decade. Curtain Call marks Eminem’s first release to make it to that lofty sum.
His is not the only title to reach a decade on the Official Album Streaming chart this week, and the rapper is in fantastic company with some global–and especially British–superstars. Eminem’s is one of nine titles to reach 520 weeks on the streaming only roster this frame. All of the following projects also make it to that landmark at the same time, as this is a very special period for the Official Albums Streaming ranking: both AM and Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not by the Arctic Monkeys, Time Flies… 1994–2009 and (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Greatest Hits, Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Legend, Adele’s 21, and Back to Black by Amy Winehouse.
Curtain Call appears on four charts in the United Kingdom this week. Amazingly, among all of them, it has spent the third-most time on the streaming roster, where it makes history this frame.
The set has only managed a shorter stay on the Official Album Downloads chart, where it actually returns this period and earns its three hundred and fifteenth frame. Eminem’s first greatest hits set has now managed 656 stays somewhere on the 100-spot list of the most-consumed albums in the U.K. It’s performed even better on the Official Hip-Hop and R&B Albums ranking, where it will reach 900 turns perhaps in the next month or so.
Eminem fills a pair of spaces on the Official Albums Streaming chart, as both Curtain Call and its follow up, Curtain Call 2, appear on the list. While the original slips from No. 10 to No. 13, the sequel declines just one space from No. 30 to No. 31.
Curtain Call 2 is the only other Eminem album, aside from its predecessor, to appear on more than one U.K. based ranking. The Death of Slim Shady, The Marshall Mathers LP, and The Eminem Show all only manage to find a home on the Official Hip-Hop and R&B Albums chart. Those sets decline to Nos. 19, 37, and 39 respectively.