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Eminem album downloaded a million times in US
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 6 July 2011
Following last week’s stats on how well digital albums are selling in the UK this year, a landmark has been passed in the US in the same domain, the first million selling digital album Stateside. Chart bosses in America have confirmed that Eminem’s 2010 long player ‘Recovery’ has now been sold over a million times digitally, in addition to any physical sales.
Commenting on the achievement, the hip hopper’s manager Paul Rosenberg told reporters: “We are thrilled to congratulate Eminem on the history-making digital sales success of ‘Recovery’. Over the years we’ve made a concerted effort to engage Em’s online fan base so this achievement is especially rewarding. Eminem made an amazing album with ‘Recovery’ and the fans responded in record numbers”.
Eminem has beaten Adele to the first ever million selling digital album in America prize, but only just. Her album ’21’ is expected to pass the million downloads mark later this month. Sales of digital albums, of course, were much slower to take off than single track downloads, but that does now seem to have turned on both sides of the Atlantic.
Elsewhere, the continued growth of digital music sales, coupled with the apps fad and the finally-taking-off ebooks market, has led US analysts Global Equities Research to predict the market leader in digital content – Apple’s iTunes store – could have revenues of $13 billion a year by 2013.
