Eminem‘s new album The Dying of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) is about to make an enormous splash on the Billboard charts, judging by its first-week gross sales projections.
HITS Each day Double reported on Monday (July 15) that the venture is anticipated to earn between 270,000 and 290,000 album-equivalent models in its opening week.
This is able to safe Em a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200, dethroning Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division after a dominant 12 consecutive weeks atop the chart.
It might additionally mark the Detroit rap legend’s eleventh No. 1 album, placing him degree with Kanye West, Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand. Solely Drake (13), Swift (14), JAY-Z (additionally 14) and The Beatles (19) have extra.
Whereas the 270-290K ballpark sits on the decrease finish of the spectrum for Eminem, whose 2000 album The Marshall Mathers LP opened with a staggering 1.78 million models, The Dying of Slim Shady might nonetheless outsell newer efforts like Revival (267,000) and Music to be Murdered By (279,000).
Maybe unsurprisingly, the album has stirred controversy since its launch final Friday. Earlier this week, Eminem obtained a fiery response from conservative commentator Candace Owens after dissing her on the Dr. Dre-produced “Lucifer.”
“And Candace O, I ain’t mad at her / I ain’t gon’ throw the actual fact bitch forgot she was Black again at her / Snort at her like them crackers she’s backin’ after her again is turned / In a cute MAGA hat together with her brand-new White Lives Matter shirt,” he rapped.
He continued: “Or say this MAGA dirtbag in a skirt / Simply opened the most important can of worms on the entire planet Earth / Name her Grand Wizard, Klandace Grand Dragon or / Just like the nationwide anthem, I received’t stand for the tramp / However I can’t diss her ’trigger my plans are to get in her pants and I’ll blow my probability if I reply again to her.”
Owens responded to Eminem in a prolonged rant on her YouTube channel, accusing of him being a closeted gay.
“Very first thing I wanna say is Eminem is clearly a homosexual man. It’s very unhappy that Eminem cleaned out his closet however by no means got here out of his closet,” she mentioned, referencing his 2002 hit.
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She added: “I simply want to once more remind folks that he’s actually a struggling internally homosexual man and we must always pray for him.”
Owens additionally claimed that she determined to reply to his lyrics to “assist him go viral” as a result of “that is very unhappy. I would like you to really feel unhappy for Eminem ’trigger that is simply not the way in which for somebody’s profession to go down the drain […] He could be related simply by me talking about him.”
“It might have meant one thing if he was at his prime,” she added. “He’s not on the peak of his profession; he’s on the finish of it. His profession ought to have ended, like, 15 years in the past and he retains going.”
The Dying of Slim Shady additionally noticed Eminem take pictures at Diddy over his alleged historical past of rape and brutal assault of Cassie, in addition to Ja Rule, Lizzo and “corny white rappers.”
