Official SoundScan numbers are in and Eminem’s Recovery sold 741K albums its first week. Amazing. What’s more amazing is that 33% of those sales were digital album sales which SoundScan now rolls in together with physical CD sales. Amazing because I wonder who the 67% are who actually still go buy CDs.
[...] second week which would put him safely above Platinum Record status in the short time period. He sold 741K albums the first week. Radio play right now is fueled by his single “Love the Way You Lie” [...]
Great music = great respect = high album sales
Simple as that.