This week, Eminem’s 2005 greatest hits compilation Curtain Call: The Hits has achieved a remarkable feat, becoming the first hip-hop album to spend 700 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. On the chart dated September 14, the album ranked at No. 198, with 8,000 equivalent album units earned between August 30 and September 5, according to Luminate.
Since the Billboard 200 began regularly publishing in 1956, only five other albums have reached this milestone: Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (990 weeks), Bob Marley’s Legend (851 weeks), Journey’s Greatest Hits (821 weeks), Metallica’s self-titled album (758 weeks), and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Chronicle (710 weeks).
Curtain Call: The Hits, which compiles tracks from four of Eminem’s early studio albums, including The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP, debuted in 2005 and has become one of his longest-charting albums. This longevity can be attributed to a Billboard 200 rule change in 2009 that allowed catalog albums to chart, as well as streaming rules established in 2014 that assign streams to the greatest hits albums where tracks appear.
This latest achievement further cements Eminem’s legacy as one of hip-hop’s most enduring and influential artists.
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