Haha yeah the power of kpop fans has no ceiling. Especially bts. They're probably the most popular kpop boy group around right now.
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Eminem sold more albums than any other artist in 2018
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Haha yeah the power of kpop fans has no ceiling. Especially bts. They're probably the most popular kpop boy group around right now.
TIL I'm completely out of touch with what the American public likes.His most streamed song on Spotify is Lucky You with 220 million
Gods Plan is number one with 660m, 1.5 billion total across all streaming services including Youtube.
No Eminem song is top 10 streaming.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/...3/nielsen-music-top-album-2018-drake-scorpion
His most streamed song on Spotify is Lucky You with 220 million
Gods Plan is number one with 660m, 1.5 billion total across all streaming services including Youtube.
No Eminem song is top 10 streaming.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/...3/nielsen-music-top-album-2018-drake-scorpion
I can honestly say, outside of Drake, I've never listened to any of these people.
People who haven't updated that CD deck in their '98 Civic that they drive around in.
Nah, it's good.
Obviously not a classic like some of his earliest albums but there is a large amount of space between "amazing" and "trash."
I still buy CDs *folds arms
but I ain't buying an Eminem CD lol, so don't blame me. Last Em CD I bought was Eminem Show in 2002 or whatever year that was.
but I ain't buying an Eminem CD lol, so don't blame me. Last Em CD I bought was Eminem Show in 2002 or whatever year that was.
The album is OK. It's good in comparison to the terrible Revival. lol
Lucky you was a banger tho.
Yo wtffff, I did not expect Look Alive to be that high. It's crazy how much Drake can elevate tracks that he's on in terms of sales/streamsHis most streamed song on Spotify is Lucky You with 220 million
Gods Plan is number one with 660m, 1.5 billion total across all streaming services including Youtube.
No Eminem song is top 10 streaming.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/...3/nielsen-music-top-album-2018-drake-scorpion
His discography is so frustrating. I stand by Recovery being awesome and a huge return to form after the dreadful Encore and Relapse. MMLP2 didn't remotely deserve to be called a sequel but it was solid enough. Then Revival was a huge step back. Kamikaze is good overall but is definitely all over the place.
I feel like the guy still has one last great album in him but he bounces around in quality like mad.
After The Eminem Show, I feel like every album afterwards has ranged from terrible to OK. Out of all the hip hop legends, I think Em has the most inconsistent discography.
I met a 13 year old Black girl recently at a Atlanta Falcons game who could already speak Korean, and plans to go to college in South Korea, all because of Kpop.
It was widely regarded as his best album in years. It was (mostly) great.
The video is one of the reasons for "The Shoot" dance becoming popular; Drake defnitely helped put the video on the map but I imagine that's more why it was so popular. Then, in turn, the song itself becomes popular to stream.
If you are saying that Kamikaze was a 3/10 while Revival was a cringe/10, I'd definitely agree
That may be it, but aside from 2-3 songs I honestly thought Kamikaze had some of his best work post Eminem Show.
Being better then revival is like garbage being better than trash.
Had no idead urban music was still so popular. Even when i was in high school in the late 90s it was what everyone mostly listened to.
I guess I don't get what people want anymore. Revival sucked, but Kamikaze (songs like Venom aside) was a pretty solid return to form. I listened to it longer than any Em album since Eminem Show.
Wow, I knew things had changed, but I didn't realize album sales were down that much. 755,027 is global #1 for the entire year? That's crazy low. I remember when I used to follow this as a college kid, you had a week when Distance and A Best came out on the same day and sold 3.0M and 2.8M just in one week, just in Japan. Times have changed, heh.
I mean... everyone seemed to hate his revival album and it wasn't him being an "angry 14 yo". Kamikaze he was angry and people love it (well people outside of era LOL).
Though, any artist going after mumble rappers the way he did this year gets props from me. I can't wait for that shit to just die.
ERA's Em hatred brings me glee, even when I'm not big on Eminem anymore.
Someone's coming to tell you how you a " old man" for not liking mumble rap
Someone's coming to tell you how you a " old man" for not liking mumble rap
The consumption is the more interesting part.
Album consumption up 16%
Total song consumption up 27%
Streaming up 35%
Song sales down 29%
Album sales down 18%
Digital down 22%
Physical down 15%
CDs down 19%
Vinyls up 12%
Cassettes up 19%
Granted, total CD sales were 6 times vinyl which were 100 times cassettes, but it's amusing to see.
Album consumption up 16%
Total song consumption up 27%
Streaming up 35%
Song sales down 29%
Album sales down 18%
Digital down 22%
Physical down 15%
CDs down 19%
Vinyls up 12%
Cassettes up 19%
Granted, total CD sales were 6 times vinyl which were 100 times cassettes, but it's amusing to see.
It's not global. In 2018, BTS sold over 2 million albums in Korea alone.
From what I've seen it's seemingly easier to buy vinyl now than CDs. Like the only major retailer that doesn't sell vinyl at all is Walmart.
I don't think I've even seen a CD copy of Kamikaze in a store, not that I really look. Listened to it once on Apple Music and was left with the same reaction I had to Taylor Swift's "Reputation", just meh.
I don't think I've even seen a CD copy of Kamikaze in a store, not that I really look. Listened to it once on Apple Music and was left with the same reaction I had to Taylor Swift's "Reputation", just meh.
Looking back on Revival imo it is just a 19-track album that should have been only 15 or 16. If you cut out the crap that should have been EP-tier its a decent album. For me the crap was
Believe (janky beat)
Bad Husband (just can't stand this song at all)
Tragic Endings (honestly im sick of Skylar Grey and the beat is weak and inspired)
Nowhere Fast (way too much chorus)
I just delete these from my playlist and its suddenly a listenable album. In fact, most of Em's new shit just needed some quality control and have 3-4 songs not make the album, all the way back to Encore (ass like that, really?)
Oh gotcha. Still, 1M in a week in the States was really common. Less than that for a year for the #1 artist is weird to see.
Him going after mumble rap made him seem like the old, mad, white guy. As Billboard's Charles Holmes put it, "Eminem tries to stop [his] artistic decline by blaming everyone except himself,". lol
It was not a good look. I'm not that big on mumble rap, but even Post Malone's album was better than Revival and Kamikaze combined.
This is relieving, my buddy who is a teacher told me recently that he was playing Eminem during a study hall and the kids had no idea who he was. Except one that said "oh the guy who is featured in (insert some new artist I forgot) song!" made me lose hope in the youth.