Biggie Albums In Order
Thanks to a Greatest Hits compilation released in 2007, The Notorious B.I.G. has now scored his fifth million-selling album in the States. Billboard reports that the compilation sold 4000 copies for the week ending February 8, pushing the album's sales past the one million mark. The sales for that week are up 339% from the previous week, and as Billboard notes, it's likely because the album was sold for $4.99 on the iTunes store for that period.
Because of this surge, all five of Biggie's solo albums have reached the million-selling mark, with the two albums he finished when he was still alive coming through the biggest numbers. His second studio album, Life After Death, has over five million in sales, while his debut, Ready to Die, has almost four million. The two posthumous albums, Born Again and Duets: The Final Chapter, gained 1.96 million and 1.17 million respectively.
Biggie has now sold 13.4 million albums in the U.S. Ram leela full movie online download. alone, and that number will likely gradually rise over time thanks to his undeniable legacy. Faith Evans did release a collaborative album featuring Biggie last year, The King & I, but that didn't make much of a splash, selling only 24,000 units.
His numbers may increase even more soon, as USA Network's highly-anticipated anthology series Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac & The Notorious B.I.G. begins its 10-episode season on Feb. 27. Anthony Hemingway, a director on the hit series The People v. O.J. Simpson, was tapped to chronicle the murders of the two legendary artists. Watch the full trailer here.
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Ranking Eminem Albums: From Worst to Best
Eminem is one of the all-time greats in rap. No debate about that. What remains a hot topic among Slim Shady fans is his body of work. What's Eminem's best album? What's his worst? One thing we can all agree on is that Slim's catalog is full of critically acclaimed albums, as well as a few duds.
Here are all Eminem albums, ranked from worst to best.
8. Encore (2004)
On one hand, Encore generated applause for its political candidness. On the other, Eminem drew criticism for imbuing that album with his increasingly cartoonish lyrics on the other. Even though it spawned gems like the plodding political punch, 'Mosh,' and the introspective 'Yellow Brick Road,' it was still considered a disappointment by Eminem's standards.
Top Tracks: 'Mosh,' 'Yellow Brick Road'
7. Relapse
Eminem finally lifted his 5-year moratorium on solo albums with the release of Relapse. Eminem's narratives are too familiar, but his method of delivering them has evolved. There are fake accents, unique rhyme sequences and vocal cadences here ('Soon as the flow starts, I compose art like the ghost of Mozart').
Top Tracks: 'Deja Vu,' 'Medicine Ball'
6. Recovery (2010)
Recovery is unlike any of Eminem's previous studio albums. Lacking the skits, traditional guests, and goofball lead singles that characterized The Slim Shady LP through Relapse, Recovery is Eminem coming to terms with his own legacy, shedding the tired formulas that marked his previous albums and attempting to reassert his place in the pantheon of the hip-hop elite.
Top Tracks: 'Not Afraid,' 'No Love'
5. The Marshall Mathers LP 2
In November 2013, Eminem released a sequel to the widely cherished Marshall Mathers LP. In the buildup to MMLP2's release, Eminem stressed that MMLP2 wasn't going to be a follow-up to The Marshall Mathers LP. 'There won't be continuation of songs or anything like that,' he told Rolling Stone. MMLP2, it turns out retained most of the familiar themes from Em's earlier masterpiece.
4. Infinite
Before the Dr. Dre hits and the Grammy awards, Eminem was just another raw talent with a pipe dream. Infinite captured the Detroit rapper in his essence: hungry, focused, raw. Infinite surely gave Em a launching pad to show and prove.
Top Tracks: 'Infinite,' '313,' 'Never Far'
3. The Slim Shady LP
A white MC from Detroit? Unflinching paeans to drugs and violence? The task before Eminem seemed illogical at first, but he turned trials into trophies within one year of arriving on the mainstream scene. Complaints about his 'evil' music failed to stifle the album's success, as The Slim Shady LP went on to sell over 5 million copies. We have this manic slice of dysfunction to thank for most of Eminem's best songs.
Top Tracks: 'Role Model,' 'Guilty Conscience'
2. The Eminem Show (2002)
By the time The Eminem Show arrived, Em was now splitting time between the recording booth and the boards. Despite this newfound penchant for beatmaking, this album showed very little dropoff in the lyrics department. Em continued his tradition of throwing darts at detractors, this time taking on Canibus on 'Square Dance' and Jermaine Dupri on 'Say What You Say.'
Top Tracks: 'White America,' 'Till I Collapse'
1. The Marshall Mathers LP
A year after he made a big splash in the industry, Eminem returned with yet another masterpiece in The Marshall Mathers LP. Em's sophomore effort helped cement his status as one of the most exciting artists of the new millennium.
Top Tracks: 'The Way I Am,' 'Stan'