Eminem’s “Recovery” Sells Over 700k In First Week

Eminem’s seventh studio album, Recovery, has sold over 700,000 copies in its first week in stores. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the exact figure comes to around 741,000.  The LP is officially the best debut of the year thus far, and Em may not run into much competition for the remainder of 2010, with the exception of Kanye West. The only other recent album to sell more in its first week is AC/DC’s Black Ice, which shipped 784,000 copies in 2008.

Recovery was initially slated to be a continuation of Em’ssixth studio album Relapse, and as such was going to be titled Relapse 2. But after starting the recording process the Detroit-bred lyricist released a statement that read, “The idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album. The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title.”

Not Afraid, the first single from the project, was released in April and debuted at the number one spot on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming only the 16th song in Billboard’s history to do so, and only the second rap single to accomplish that.

The LP features production from Just Blaze, Boi-1da, Mr. Porter, Jim Jonsin, DJ Khalil, and Dr. Dre, amongst others. The only features come courtesy of singers Pink and Rihanna, and rapper Lil Wayne.

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