Eminem captures his ninth issue with "Kamikaze" – Rolling Stone

The lack of promotion has little prevented Eminem's album sales as the rapper's surprise LP. Suicide bomber open to number one with the fourth best selling week of 2018.

Suicide bomber sold 434,000 copies – of which 252,000 digital traditional copies only; the physical version followed a week after the unexpected arrival of the album – to give Eminem his ninth album Number One. Only the Beatles, Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley have more LPs, Display panel reports.

Each solo album of Eminem since 2000 The Marshall Mathers LP – including the 8 miles soundtrack – debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200.

Only three albums – Drake's Scorpio, Travis Scott Astroworld and Post Malone Beerbongs & Bentley – released better numbers of the 2018 opening week than Suicide bomber. However, on a purely traditional point of sale, Suicide bomber was only beaten by Dave Matthews Band Come tomorrow and Astroworld this year.

The top 10 of the week included two newcomers: Troye Sivan set up a new high-end Billboard 200 as the second album in his class. Flowering debuted at number four and 72,000 copies, an improvement over the 2015 high-point Blue district. Why not create the first album? 8 songs deposited at Number Nine.

Travis Scott & # 39; s Astroworld once again leads the returnees to number two, one place ahead of Drake's Scorpio. Ariana Grande Sweetener finished number five followed by Beerbongs and Bentley (Number six), Nicki Minaj Queen (Seven), BTS ' Do you like: Answer, who fell to number eight after his debut at Number One last week, and Juice WRLD Goodbye and good riddance at number 10.

The new versions competing for the number one next week are Paul McCartney Station of Egypt, Lauren Daigle Find a child and Lenny Kravitz Raise the vibration, as well as an influx of sales and streams for Mac Miller after the death of this rapper on Friday at the age of 26.