Eminem’s, “Relapse,” Will Release May 19th & “Relapse 2,” Later This Year
Eminem, the biggest selling music artist of the decade, officially announced the street date of his eagerly awaited new album; his first original studio album in over four years. Relapse (Interscope/ Aftermath/Shady) will be released on May 19, 2009. The first single from the album and its accompanying video will see a simultaneous release on April 7th.
Check the rest of the press release below.
Anticipation for Relapse has been building since the fall, when Eminem first announced the album title and debuted the freestyle, “I’m Having A Relapse,” during an interview on his Shade 45 satellite radio station. Last month, the release of “Crack A Bottle” from Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent brought that anticipation to a head. The track soared to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Eminem’s second #1 after 2002’s “Lose Yourself”) and set a Nielsen SoundScan record for opening week download sales (418,000). The recording ranked third in the history of all weekly download sales. “Crack A Bottle” will be included as an album track on Relapse.
With the announcement of the release date for Relapse also comes confirmation of something that had been rumored in recent weeks: Eminem is already working on a follow-up album, Relapse 2, that fans can expect in the second half of 2009. “A lot of people were expecting Relapse to drop last year,” said Eminem. “I was one of them. Then Dre and I went back in the studio in September for a few days, and that turned into six months. We were on such a roll; we wound up with a ton of new music produced by Dre. Putting out Relapse 2 will let everyone get all of the best stuff.”
Eminem has sold more than 75,000,000 albums worldwide. His previous studio album, Encore, reached #1 and dominated the charts in late 2004. Certified quadruple platinum and spinning off four Top 40 Hot 100 hits, the Grammy-nominated disc has sold more than 11,000,000 copies around the globe. The #1, double platinum, 2005 greatest hits collection, Curtain Call: The Hits and #2, platinum, 2006 various artists compilation, Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, followed. In October 2008, Eminem released “Eminem: The Way I Am”, a book compiling thoughts, stories, and memorabilia from various points in his life. The book entered the New York Times Best-Seller list at #11.
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March 5th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
FIRST
March 5th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Eminem is BACK ! Yall wack rappers better put out them weak ass albums out right now. Wayne yo time is UP lol.
March 5th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
IT A BIG BIG CLOUD BOUT TO RETURN. NOT TO MUCH TO SAY HERE, BUT DANG I DIDN’T KNOW THE TOTAL WAS UP TO 75,000,000 MILLION SOLD WORLDWIDE. THAT’S JUST RETARDED. THEN AGAIN, WHEN YOU SPIT LIKE THAT AND GO HARD & PRACTICE YOUR SKILL THAT’S WHAT YOU GET.
March 5th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Great news. Just need a Detox release date can we get that please ?
March 5th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Eminem is back. Everybody else need to move there release date right now, CAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THOSE RELEASES. Cash money records just spontaniously combusted when they heard about his release date being set. NO LIE. HAHA
THE WORST RAPPER ALIVE HAS MESSED UP, & IS PROBABLY SOMEWHERE CRYING RIGHT NOW, CAUSE HE DECIDED TO PUSH HIS WACK A&S AUTO-MONE / ROCK ALBUM BACK TO THIS DATE A FEW WEEKS BACK.
EM DID A MIL ONCE, AND ALMOST DID IT AGAIN WITH THE EMINEM SHOW. THIS WON’T BE AN OVERHYPED CD, LIKE C3 EITHER, CAUSE IT’LL ACTUALLY BE WORTH IT WIEGHT. AND FOLKS TALKING BOUT WHITE PEOPLE BUYING WAYNE. YOU THINK THEY GONA A FLYING RAT F*CK ABOUT A LIL WAYNE CD IF EMIENEM IS OUT. ENCORE WAS GOOD, NOT HIS BEST BUT STILL HOT, AND IT DID 4 MILLION COPIES. REALLY!!!!!!!
I LIKE BUSTA RHYMES, AS WELL AS EM, BUT WHAT THE HECK IS HE THINKIN DROPING HIS CD THE SAME DAY TOO.
I WOULDN’T BE SURPRISED TO HEAR A SONG LIKE HE HAD DONE WITH HIS FIRST SINGLES BEFORE, JUST CLOWING ON CERTAIN ARTISTS AND THE DUMB STUFF THEY DOIN. (AUTO-TUNE , COUGH, COUGH)
THIS CD SHOULD BE HOT. AND HE GOT PLENTY TO TALK ABOUT. AND WITH DRE BEHIND THE BOARDS, IT’S A RAP.
March 5th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
The King Is Back!!!!
March 5th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
thats a good look, and FINALLYYYY!!!!! good to hear there will be two this year since he been gone for TOOOO long!
March 5th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
“THEN AGAIN, WHEN YOU SPIT LIKE THAT AND GO HARD & PRACTICE YOUR SKILL THAT’S WHAT YOU GET.”
IT ALSO HELPS THAT HE’S THE ONLY WHITE RAPPER THAT CAN GO TOE TO TOE WITH THE LIKES OF JAY-Z,NAS,ETC.
RELAPSE,BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT,THE DETOX.2009 IS INTERSCOPES YEAR.
March 5th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
best news i heard man.. im almost 100% its gna be off the hook
March 5th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Cant wait…We all know he’s doin a millie the first week lol
March 5th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
em will be ATLEASTTTTTTTT double platinum the first week…yes i said ATLEAST
March 5th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Yes yes yes!!! Finally. Eminem will drop Relapse on May 24. I am copping 2 CDs. . .and maybe buy it through I-tunes, download it. And a bonus. . .Relapse 2, in stores second half of 2009. This is a wrap for fake ass, excuse to be hip hop artist, especially who called himself that I Am Hip Hop, Best Rapper Alive, cheated his way to #1 for 2008, plagiarize artist’s rhymes, styles, swaggers, etc., fans hypnotized by him. I hope Eminem will respond to Lil’ Wayne diss and his so-called apology, wehn he do Lil Wayne is history. Real hip hop is back. Eminem is a real deal, Slim Shady. To add, the three headed monsters, bitches! Eminem- Relapse, 50 Cent- Before I Self Distruct, and Dr. Dre- Detox; I am patiently waiting for The Detox album since The Chronic 2001. Yo. . .I agree with #1-11, especially #5. Let Dre produce the entire album and him and Em will be good to go. At first, I thought Swizz Beats was gonna to get in the mix with Eminem album, in which I thought it will shock some suprise with fans like myself. I guess that did not happen. Oh well…Eminem- Relapse
March 5th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
cmon needs to drop one cd 1st before he starts thinking bout the follow up
March 6th, 2009 at 1:04 am
Em bout friggin time…these youngs nowadays dnt give a flyin fig wtf he sold before…its a new day duggie…even doh he WILL do numbers..and im still trying to fig out why ‘crack a bottle’ did what it did..was niggaz really feeling tht shyt like tht??? or wuz mofos jus bringing out Pom Poms for da “whiteboy”?? i dunno.. holla!