CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS
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CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS
Curtain Call: The Hits debuted at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart and Billboard 200, after two sales days, in a similar fashion to Eminem's previous album Encore. The album racked up first-week sales of nearly 441,000 and with close to 324,000 scans the second week for a two-week stay at number one. It slipped from no. 1 to no. 4 in its third week but surged 33 percent to finish with sales close to 430,000. The disc scored nearly 1.2 million scans in its first three weeks of release. It also gave Eminem his fifth straight number 1 album in the US and UK when including the 8 Mile soundtrack. Curtain Call was certified triple-platinum by the RIAA in the United States.[10] As of November 2013, the record had sold 3,782,000 copies in the United States.[11]
Critic Reviews
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Genius
A collection of Eminem’s greatest hits from 1999 – 2004, as well as 3 new songs
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iTunes
This collection captures the essential qualities with which he carved his niche in the rap world and upturned the entire music industry.
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Billboard
With Curtain Call reaching triple-digit territory, Eminem becomes one of only seven acts with two albums that have each claimed more than 100 weeks on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums since the chart began on Jan. 30, 1965. He joins 2Pac and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, who both have three such albums, along with Kirk Franklin, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson and Sade (two each).
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Pitchfork
Hip-hop legend frustratingly collects the hits, saves some of his best work for a tack-on bonus disc, and adds a few mostly insignificant new tracks.
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Rolling Stone
You can quibble with the selection when it comes to the nonhits, but Curtain Call is a solid summary of Eminem’s transformation from hip-hop prankster with delicious anti-social tendencies (“My Name Is”) to caring father with melodramatic tendencies and self-serious rock star with stardom tendencies (“The Way I Am”), not to mention his subsequent recycling of those roles (“Mockingbird,” “When I’m Gone”).
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HIPHOP DX
The album holds Em’s most popular cuts including his debut single “My Name Is” off The Slim Shady LP and “The Way I Am” off his 2000 project The Marshall Mathers LP.
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NME
Eminem’s best songs still have the power to disconcert and set a standard that all rock stars will struggle to match.
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Detroit Metro Times
Not only does the feat put the album in a list of longest-charting albums of all time, but it is the longest-charting hip-hop album, too
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XXL Magazine
If you're a rap fan who's just trying to take an introductory course on the world of Slim Shady, this is definitely the album to listen to. The 17-track project combines "My Name Is" with "The Real Slim Shady" with "8 Mile" and "Cleanin' Out My Closet," encapsulating all the anger, angst and animated insanity that is Marshall Mathers.
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FYE
If Eminem's Curtain Call: The Hits really is his final bow and not merely a clever denouement to his series of Eminem Show and Encore albums, it's a worthy way to retire.
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The Sound of Vinyl
The album was certified double-platinum in the US, triple-platinum in Australia and the UK, and quadruple-platinum in New Zealand.
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Rap-Up
Much of Curtain Call’s success comes from the ultra-successful singles that appear on the album, including “The Way I Am,” “My Name Is,” “Stan,” and “Lose Yourself,” among others
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Hot New Hiphop
After spending three hundred and fifty weeks on the Billboard charts, Eminem's 2005 greatest hits compilation Curtain Call has officially surpassed any and all hip-hop albums
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All Music
And that means Curtain Call isn't just a good way to bow out, but it's a great greatest-hits album by any measure
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Influenster
CURTAIN CALL provides a valuable overview of an artist whose skills are unassailable, and whose role as a social gadfly remains as complex as ever.
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