Eminem’s ‘Curtain Call’ Spends its 100th Week on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart
Eminem has a lot to celebrate, he recently hit a double-triple on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. His greatest hits album, Curtain Call: The Hits, reached a milestone spending its 100th week on the list.
This collection of hits is Eminem's second time hitting the 100th mark, The Eminem Show was his first. Curtain Call contains several of Eminem's hit singles from 1999-2004 including, "The Real Slim Shady," "Stan," and his 12-week Billboard Hot 100 hit "Lose Yourself."
Eminem joins 2Pac, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony in his accomplishment, as both acts have three albums that have hit the 100th mark, followed by Kirk Franklin, Sade, Whitney Houston, and Michael Jackson, who each have two albums that have reached this level of success.
In other music news, its rumored that Em is working on new music with Dr. Dre for the soundtrack to his battle rap film, Bodied. Directed by Joseph Kahn, the flick was well received during its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival last week.
Below is Billboard's breakdown of all seven artists, their weeks spent on the chart, album title, peak position, and date.
2Pac:
128, Greatest Hits, No. 1 (two weeks), Dec. 12, 1998
107, All Eyez on Me (three weeks), March 2, 1996
103, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, Nov. 23, 1996
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony:
119, Creepin on Ah Come Up, No. 2, Sept. 10, 1994
105, E. 1999 Eternal, No. 1 (three weeks), Aug. 12, 1995
104, Greatest Hits, No. 30, March 26, 2005
Eminem:
130, The Eminem Show, No. 1 (six weeks), June 8, 2002
100, Curtain Call: The Hits, No. 2, Dec. 24, 2005
Kirk Franklin:
108, Kirk Franklin and The Family, No. 6, March 25, 1995
104, Hero, No. 4, Oct. 22, 2005
Whitney Houston:
122, The Bodyguard, No. 1 (eight weeks), Dec. 12, 1992
116, Whitney Houston, No. 1 (six weeks), June 22, 1985
Michael Jackson:
112, Dangerous, No. 1 (12 weeks), Jan. 4, 1992
104, Thriller, No. 1 (37 weeks), Jan. 29, 1983
Sade:
111, The Best of Sade, No. 7, Nov. 26, 1994
105, Love Deluxe, No. 2, Dec. 26, 1992