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Eminem's Curtain Call: The Hits is the first rap album to spend 400 weeks on the UK's Official Albums Chart

Only 11 albums have spent 400 or more weeks in the Top 100.

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Eminem's Curtain Call: The Hits album has hit a massive UK chart milestone, becoming only the eleventh album in chart history to reach 400 weeks in the Top 100 of the Official Albums Chart.

The former Number 1 album is officially the first rap/hip-hop album to reach the milestone, notching up its 400th week on last Friday's Official Albums Chart, when it placed at Number 33.

Topping the chart on its release week in December 2005, the retrospective spent five consecutive weeks at Number 1 and has appeared in the Top 100 every year since, with the exception of 2008. View Eminem's complete Official UK Chart history so far here.

Curtain Call has not left the Top 100 since January 2017, and has spent its last ten weeks in the Top 40, an impressive feat some 14-plus years after release.

Eminem has a huge fanbase who continue to stream his back catalogue on a daily basis, but Curtain Call is also readily available on vinyl, with the LP shifting an average of 105 copies per week over the past three years. Combined sales for Curtain Call stand at 2.3 million to date, split between 1.9 million paid-for sales and 400,000 streaming equivalent sales.

Eminem narrowly misses the all-time Top 10 longest reigning albums by five weeks. Ed Sheeran's debut album + released in 2011 has racked up 405 weeks in the Top 100.

ABBA's greatest hits Gold is the all-time leader when it comes to longevity with 932 weeks currently logged in the Top 100, Bob Marley & The Wailer's Legend is second with 916 weeks logged, while the UK's bestselling album of all time Greatest Hits by Queen is in third on 884 weeks.

The others in the Top 10 are the longest-running studio album on the list Fleetwood Mac's Rumours (827), Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of The Moon (535), Bat Out Of Hell from Meatloaf (522), Number Ones by Michael Jackson (434), Oasis' (What's The Story?) Morning Glory (427) and Back To Black from Amy Winehouse (420).

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Velvet Android

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Meat Loaf, not Meatloaf. He's been banging on about this for 40 years, it's not difficult to remember.

Meanwhile, I spotted on this week's chart how remarkably many weeks Michael Jackson's Number Ones has on the top 100, but hadn't twigged that ranked it quite so highly in the all-time lists. Seems no matter how his reputation may have plummeted among the public at large, shall we say, there's still a fan base out there that's never going to stop streaming this stuff in significant numbers.

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Brian Quinn

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II would NEVER buy a Rap record. Cannot see any talent in it..

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lebitumeavecuneplume

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yeah there's no talent in the most lyrical music form

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Alpha Beeta

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Crazy milestone for someone who's not even a UK artist. Eminem is the best selling rapper of 21st century across all genres anyway.

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Eric

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To note, Curtain Call is not in the sales top 100, physical sales top 100, or digital sales top 100.

OCC needs to consider how Greatest Hits albums get their popularity incorrectly inflated by streams. They assign the streams of all an artist' singles to the album. However most of the time when people stream these hits, they're not streaming them from Greatest Hits albums. You could be listening to The Eminem Show album, and Without Me's stream would benefit the Greatest Hits album.

If an artist like Ed Sheeran released a Greatest Hits in the streaming era, it would practically chart top 10 every single week, whether people are actually streaming the album itself, because all of his huge singles would have their streams combined towards it every week. Thus the actual popularity of the GH becomes largely inflated.

Also, if NOW Compilations don't have streams of their 50 hit tracklists included in their totals, why should Greatest Hits? It's unfair to have compilations that have dozens of radio hits combined from various studio albums get their streaming compared to single studio albums. All compilations should have sales only counted towards them.

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Alpha Beeta

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That's not how it works.

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Velvet Android

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Yes, a track isn't streamed in a vacuum, is it? The listener is still picking it from a virtual album at any given time, even if they just search for the individual song. Plug in, say, Billie Jean to Spotify's search function and it'll presumably pop up with multiple responses, listing it as respectively a track on Thriller, HIStory, Thriller 25, Number Ones, The Essential, Michael + Jacksons compilations, etc. Whichever one of those you pick will be the album whose streams it counts towards, surely.