Eminem Dethrones Taylor Swift On Album Chart After Three Months
Slim Shady has defeated the Swifties.
Eminem’s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) 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.
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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. The new set’s lead single, “Houdini,” reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The rapper, who won a Best Song Oscar in 2003 for “Lose Yourself” from the movie 8 Mile, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.
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Tortured Poets Department is Swift’s 10th consecutive No. 1 studio album — a streak that began with 2008’s Fearless. She’s also had four chart-topped re-recorded albums, and last year’s Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is the top-grossing concert movie of all time, with $261.7 million worldwide.
Swift, who this year became the first act to score four Album of the Year Grammys, will be eligible for the Rock Hall in the early 2030s.
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