In a day and age when artists can barely go gold, Eminem latest album has already been certified platinum in two weeks.
Recovery, the rappers seventh studio LP, tops the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second straight week selling 313,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The albums sales total 1.1 million copies in the U.S. since its release two weeks ago.
Drake claims the runner-up position as his debut album Thank Me Later comfortably sits at No. 2 in its third week with 105,000 units sold, down 33% from the previous week.
The-Dreams Love King opens at No. 4 with 58,000. Despite being the final album in his Love trilogy, it sold less in its first week than its predecessors, 2009s Love vs. Money (No. 2, 151,000) and 2007s Lovehate (No. 30, 59,000).
On the Digital Songs chart, Eminem and Rihannas Love the Way You Lie holds strong at No. 1 for a second week with 280,000 downloads, while Kanye Wests new single Power debuts at No. 14 with 80,000.
Eminem's Recovery only took 10 days to reach platinum status after topping the Billboard 200 chart for the second consecutive week. Due in part to a huge promotional campaign for the album, Recovery sold over a million copies in the United States in less than two weeks. Recovery became the only album besides Susan Boyle's debut to sell upwards of 300,000 copies in consecutive weeks. British pop sensation Susan Boyle released I Dreamed A Dream in December of 2009. Drake's Thank Me LAter holds on to the number 2 spot with the Eclipse soundtrack and The Dream's Love King taking 3rd and 4th places respectively.