Rapper Eminem Tops U.S. Charts with 'Encore'
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Eminem fans have turned out en  masse to snap up their rap idol's newest album, propelling it  to No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts after just three days in  release.
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Shania Twain's "Greatest Hits" and Toby Keith's "Greatest Hits 2" each have a shot of topping the next U.S. pop charts with sales of more 500,000 units or more, but Eminem could pip them at the post when data for the week ended Nov. 14 are released next Wednesday.
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Martha Stewart wants Eminem to appear on her "Martha" TV show. Not because he can knit or bake brownies but because audience members love his music.
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Bob Dylan reached the top of the   U.S. albums chart for the first time in 30 years, and only the   fourth time in his career, according to sales data issued on   Wednesday.
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Kim Mathers blasted ex-husband Eminem during a radio interview Friday, saying she has come to despise the man she twice married and divorced. Mathers described Eminem, 34, as unfaithful and uncaring &#151; and went as far as to disparage the Grammy winner's sexual prowess. "I vomit in my mouth whenever I'm around him," she said during the interview on WKQI-FM in Detroit.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Grammy-nominated punk trio Green  Day returned to the top of the U.S. pop charts Wednesday with  its hit opus "American Idiot," which sold just 178 copies more  than Eminem's reigning champ.
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Eminem's new CD is his most conflicted release so far: it includes some of the most exhilarating songs Eminem has ever recorded, alongside some of the most inert.
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Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous"  featuring Timbaland led the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for  a fourth week Thursday, while Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" held at  No. 2 but replaced Furtado atop the Hot Digital Songs chart.
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American Music Awards voters confessed their love for Usher as the young R&amp;B luminary grabbed four trophies at the 32nd annual event Sunday, duplicating Eminem&#39;s feat at the 2002 show.
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The latest Eminem album tops the US album chart after just three days on sale, following its UK success.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Kanye West looks set to win the closely watched duel with rival rapper 50 Cent for the No. 1 slot on next week's U.S. pop album chart, according to preliminary sales data issued Wednesday.
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Eminem made his voice heard for the first time at the ballot box. The 32-year-old rapper voted by absentee ballot in Tuesday's presidential election and had a bodyguard drop it off, township clerk Dennis Tomlinson said.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Eminem was the top-seller among  last-minute holiday shoppers as "Encore" returned to No. 1 on  the U.S. album charts last week after a month-long absence.
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Rap star Eminem kicked off the MTV Europe  Music Awards on Thursday with the rat-a-tat of machine guns and  whirring of helicopters as he performed his new politicized  single "Mosh" in front of an armored tank.
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Although details remain tightly under wraps, Billboard has learned that Eminem's upcoming album, "Encore," will be available in a special collector's edition.
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Controversial rapper Eminem will launch his widely expected satellite music radio channel called Shade 45 on Oct. 28 with a live broadcast of a concert from New York, the Sirius network said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Oscar-winning rapper Eminem will  release his fourth album, to be called "Encore," on Nov. 16,  his Interscope Records label said Monday.