Late last year, Eminem experienced the most underwhelming response to any of his eight major-label albums with the release of Revival, his first LP since the hugely successful Marshall Mathers LP 2 four years earlier. The set was critically panned, notched just a fraction of the first-week sales of MMLP2, and failed to generate anything resembling a pop hit no song from the album even graced Billboard‘s Radio Songs chart. 31), almost certainly won’t have that overall industry-wide impact - arguably, no album since Beyoncé has - and clearly lacks the Internet-wide approval of that 2013 effort either. But it may have a comparable impact on Em’s own career, re-establishing the star MC as a commercial force following a low point in sales and relevance, and proving he might not be retreating back to top 40’s shadows as quickly as many would have predicted. Kamikaze, the new surprise album released by veteran rapper Eminem on Friday (Aug. The set not only outsold 4‘s first-week numbers in its first day, but it dominated conversation in the music world for the remainder of the calendar year (and well into 2014), changed the way the entire industry approached big-ticket new releases, and of course, re-established Bey as the Queen, with her supremacy unlikely to be questioned again anytime soon thereafter.Įminem and New Def Jam CEO Paul Rosenberg on Early 'Broke Days,' Courting Controversy and Hip-Hop's… Then, late on a Thursday night in December of that year, Beyoncé’s new self-titled visual album unexpectedly dropped from the heavens. A rapturously received performance at Super Bowl XLVII that February reconfirmed her legacy, but it seemed like that was what she might have been on her way to becoming in totality: a legacy act, one who would always maintain a steady and devoted fanbase, but would increasingly operate outside the pop’s mainstream.
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Her 2011 album 4 had opened to positive reviews and diehard fan approval but her lowest overall sales to date, while the album’s singles had all stalled comfortably outside the Hot 100’s top 10. It’s easy to forget this in 2018, but in 2013, globally beloved pop superstar Beyoncé was actually in something of a vulnerable position in her career.