Eminem’s “Recovery” First Week Sales Are In

Eminem’s “Recovery” will blast in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week with 741,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan”Recovery’s” debut week sales surpasses the first week of Eminem’s last set, “Relapse,” which began at No. 1 in 2009 with 608,000. It also beats the opening of 2005’s “Curtain Call: The Hits” which entered at No. 1 with 441,000 in 2005.

via Bill Board

Who bought the album? Did it live up to the hype? I think Eminem can sell 300k without any promotion at this point. His last album is almost 2 times and platinum and he even admitted it wasn’t that great.

Also Drake managed to sell another 157k putting him over the gold status in his second week. The Roots sold 51k, I didn’t even knew they dropped an album.