If anybody has the commercial strength to overthrow Adele on the Billboard 200 it's Eminem. As part of the duo Bad Meets Evil, the most successful artist of the last decade enters the chart this week at #1 with the EP Hell: the Sequel.
With a 19k lead on this week's #2 entry, Jackie Evancho's Dream With Me, "Hell" claims the top spot on the tally with an impressive 171k copies sold. However, this isn't Eminem's 1st #1 record as a member of a group. The rapper climbed to the peak of the Billboard 200 as part of D12 with the albums Devil's Night in 2001 and D12 World in 2004.
Elsewhere in the top 10 of the lineup are Adele's 21 at #3 with 115k sold and Lady GaGa's Born This Way at #4, selling just under 68k (down 33%). To date, both albums have sold approximately 2.3 million and 1.5 million copies, respectively.
Further down the list are Bruno Mars' Doo-Wops & Hooligans at #24 with 18k units sold (down 7%; total of 1.1 million), Justin Bieber's My World 2.0 with 14k (up 29%; total of 2.8 million) and Wiz Khalifa's Rolling Papers with 13.9k (total of 459k). Rounding out the top 40 are Rihanna's Loud, which sold 13.8k copies (up 2%; total of 1.3 million) and Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday with 12.7k (up 3%; total of 1.4 million).
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