Eminem Unseats Taylor Swift on Album Charts With ‘The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)’
variety.comThania Garcia Taylor Swift has finally passed the torch: Eminem now holds the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200, unseating “The Tortured Poets Department” for the first time since its April release. “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce),” the emcee’s 12th album, opens at the top of the all-genre-inclusive chart with the equivalent of 281,000 equivalent album units in the United States.
It also logs 220 million streams and 114,000 sales, according to data by Luminate. Eminem first announced “Death” during the NFL Draft in April, and later published an obituary in the Detroit Free Press bidding adieu to Slim Shady, his career-long alter ego that he’s played as a character in his songs and in videos.
The LP is Eminem’s first record since “Music to Be Murdered By,” a January 2020 release. “Death” is Eminem’s 11th album to reach No.
1, a figure that puts him at a tie with Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and Ye (Kanye West). Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” meanwhile, slips to No.
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