Eminem smashes George Strait's 44.89 million mark to become

[yoda you can call me]

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=858461

You'll have to forgive Eminem if he's "beginning to feel like a 'Rap God.'"

"The Marshall Mathers LP 2" sold an additional 13,000 copies for the week ending March 16, according to Nielsen SoundScan, pushing it beyond two million total sales. The milestone continues the rapper's trend of moving more than two million units of each of his albums, per Billboard.

Eminem simultaneously hit another mark that should garner some bragging rights. His total sales across all albums now sits at 44.91 million, overtaking country musician George Strait's 44.89 million to become the second-best-selling male artist. However, it is important to note that Strait's career predates the inception of SoundScan data.

Garth Brooks is the top selling artist of the era, regardless of gender.

Among all artists in that nearly 23-year span, Eminem is in sixth place, dropping Strait to No. 7. Brooks is on top with 69.52 million. The Beatles are second (65.55 million) and Metallica third (54.26 million), while Mariah Carey sits in fourth (54.24 million) and Celine Dion (52.21 million) rounds out the top five.

Also during the rapper's busy record-breaking week, Eminem landed his 50th Billboard Hot 100 hit, as "Headlights," featuring fun's Nate Ruess, debuted at No. 86. The chart entry crowns as the seventh rapper to tally at least 50 Hot 100 chart entries.

Lil Wayne leads all emcees (and all solo artists of any kind, actually) with 121 songs, followed by Jay Z (82), Drake (69), Kanye West (61), Ludacris (54) and T.I. (53).

[StanBase]

Is that worldwide record sales? I thought Em had something like 70/80 mill

[StanBase]

The love the way you lie rapper >>>>> the rap god

Kinda weird that they didn't mention it's not WW sales

[yoda you can call me]

Is that worldwide record sales? I thought Em had something like 70/80 mill

Don't think it's worldwide.

Nice one, Em. Now announce your retirement, sell 30 million out of nowhere then say you were kidding.

Also I love how articles are all now referring to him as a Rap God as opposed to, 'the Love The Way You Lie rapper...'.

The haters will be loving that, ha

[TheGentlePlayer]

SoundScan = In the US. The Beatles have sold 200 mill WW

[Emadyville]

And Elvis sold over 1 billion worldwide, so im sure he'd be tops on this list. but thats awesome regardless

[SliK]

And Elvis sold over 1 billion worldwide, so im sure he'd be tops on this list. but thats awesome regardless

I don't know about that claim haha

[DetroitSkills]

[Emadyville]

And Elvis sold over 1 billion worldwide, so im sure he'd be tops on this list. but thats awesome regardless

I don't know about that claim haha

its true. trust me. my dad is the biggest elvis fan, i know a lot and not just from him. his comeback special in hawaii had more viewers worldwide than the moon landing for christ sakes. not even eminem could come close to pulling something like that off. elvis was and still is HUGE

[Emadyville]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_presley

600 million worldwide sales m8.

You are off by 400 million.

Which actually puts him right there with the Beatles, who also have an estimate of 600 million worldwide sales.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_beatles

doing my own research, it seems that many people say he has sold well over a billion records. while, at the same time, there are some articles saying there is no way to truly determine how many total records he sold. all i'm saying is, with how big he was and with no internet or copying really of any kind back then, and with how popular and big he was, i have no problem believing he did sell a billion.

Since the early eighties, RCA have been quoted as saying that Elvis' World-wide record sales had passed the one billion mark. In 1997, Rudi Gassner, President and CEO of BMG Entertainment, made a speech at Graceland stating that Elvis had sold over one billion records (singles/EP's/albums/CD's/cassettes World-wide and that it was estimated this figure comprised 600 million in the USA alone with 400 million in the rest of the world.

http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~presley/elnews-E ... dSales.htm

[geoff]

Fuck me.... A billion is a big ass number, Elvis be rollin