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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Eminem: Top 50 Songs

Eminem

Top 50 Songs

Eminem is a rap singer who was born Marshall Bruce Mathers III on 10/17/1972 in St. Joseph, MO. He grew up splitting time in Missouri and Detroit. With sales of over 220 million records, he is one of the best-selling acts of all time. He was the best-selling act of the 2000s and named Artist of the Decade (2000-2009) by Billboard magazine. He has had ten consecutive albums debut at #1 – the first act to do so. He was also in the rap duo Bad Meets Evil and the rap group D12.

For a complete list of this act’s DMDB honors, check out the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry.

Click here to see other acts’ best-of lists.

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Check out the Dave’s Music Database podcast The Best of Eminem, 1998-2022 based on this list. Debut: August 23, 2022, at 7pm CST. New episodes based on Dave’s Music Database lists are posted every Tuesday at 7pm CST.

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Top 50 Songs

Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards.

DMDB Top 1%:

1. Lose Yourself (2002)
2. Love the Way You Lie (with Rihanna, 2010)
3. Stan (with Dido, 2000)
4. Without Me (2002)

DMDB Top 2%:

5. The Monster (with Rihanna, 2013)
6. The Real Slim Shady (2000)
7. My Name Is… (1998)
8. Not Afraid (2010)

DMDB Top 5%:

9. Smack That (with Akon, 2006)

DMDB Top 10%:

10. Mockingbird (2004)
11. Cleanin’ Out My Closet (2002)
12. Rap God (2013)
13. Godzilla (with Juice Wrld, 2020)
14. Like Toy Soldiers (2004)
15. When I’m Gone (2005)
16. Sing for the Moment (20020

DMDB Top 20%:

17. Till I Collapse (with Nate Dogg, 2002)
18. My Band (D12, 2004)
19. Just Lose It (2004)
20. Crack a Bottle (with Dr. Dre & 50 Cent, 2009)

21. Forever (with Drake, Kanye West, & Lil Wayne, 2009)
22. River (with Ed Sheeran, 2017)
23. No Love (with Lil Wayne, 2010)
24. The Way I Am (2000)
25. Forgot About Dre (with Dr. Dre, 1999)
26. Berzerk (2013)
27. I Need a Doctor (with Dr. Dre & Skylar Grey, 2011)
28. Lucky You (with Joyner Lucas, 2018)
29. Killshot (2018)
30. Beautiful (2009)

31. Lighters (Bad Meets Evil with Bruno Mars, 2011)
32. Drop the World (with Lil Wayne, 2010)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

33. Homicide (with Logic, 2019)
34. Shake That (with Nate Dogg, 2005)
35. Venom (2018)
36. We Made You (2009)
37. Mosh (2004)
38. Purple Pills/Purple Hills (D12, 2001)
39. The Adventures of Moon Man & Slim Shady (with Kid Cudi, 2020)
40. Survival (2013)

41. Headlights (with Nate Ruess, 2013)
42. Fall (2018)
43. Ass Like That (2004)
44. Superman (2002)
45. Walk on Water (with Beyoncé, 2017)
46. The Ringer (2018)
47. My Life (with Eminem & Adam Levine, 2012)
48. No Favors (with Big Sean, 2017)
49. Space Bound (2010)
50. Darkness (2020)

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First posted 7/30/2022; last updated 8/24/2022.
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Tuesday, November 21, 2000

Eminem charted with “Stan”

Stan

Eminem with Dido

Writer(s): Eminem, Dido, Paul Herman (see lyrics here)

Released: November 21, 2000

First Charted: October 7, 2000

Peak: 51 US, 31 GR, 31 RR, 36 RB, 11 UK, 27 CN, 11 AU, 1 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): 2.0 US, 1.47 UK, 5.0 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 412.4 video, 710.03 streaming

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About the Song:

“There are few songs as blindly fascinating and striking as this” SY “compelling look at the pitfalls of fame” PD and “obsessive fandom.” TB “Rapper Eminem cemented his artistic standing” AB’00 with this “fictional…but frighteningly real” PD story of a deranged fan who sends “a series of unhinged letters.” RS’09

This “creepy hit… encapsulated the dramatic flair that made Eminem so impossible to ignore in 2000.” RS’09 “Even now…[it is] funnier and more shocking than 99 percent of mainstream hip-hop.” MX It is a “raw, beautiful…tragedy without melodrama.” SY It was “instantly fascinating…on first listen [in] how it could take such a cute, pedestrian verse to symbolize an obsessive fan’s descent into madness and self-destruction [and] how Eminem’s rap could sound so realistic, like he’s a friend telling you this story.” SY

Malcolm McLaren’s 1984 song “Fans” appears to be the basis of “Stan” in both its structure and story, complete with an opera aria excerpt along with samples from “Thank You,” a song by “hippy-dippy English songbird” TB Dido which became a hit in its own right. SF Em also references his own work when Stan says, “I drank a fifth of vodka, dare me to drive?,” a line from “My Name Is.” Stan also references an untrue rumor that Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” was written by Collins when he witnessed a man stand by and do nothing while someone drowned. The legend says Collins invited the man to one of his concerts and sang it to him. SF

Eminem had to deal with charges of being anti-gay because in one of Stan’s letters, he writes about wanting to be with Eminem, who replies that it makes him not want to meet Stan. In response, Eminem enlisted the openly gay Elton John to play piano and sing Dido’s part at the 2001 Grammys. SF

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Tuesday, February 23, 1999

Eminem released his debut album, The Slim Shady LP: February 23, 1999

“The audacious debut from the snot heard round the world.” ZS “Hip-hop had never heard anything like Em’s brain-damaged rhymes…which earned Em respect, fortune, fame and a lawsuit from his mom.” RS He was “more shocking than Marilyn Manson, more offensive than Andrew Dice Clay” ZS with detractors arguing that “his talent doesn’t outweigh the misogynistic lyrics.” ZS Indeed, he served up “lacerating insights with vigor and venom, blurring the line between reality and parody, all seemingly without effort.” AMG

“The Slim Shady LP bristles with this tension, since it’s never always clear when Marshall Mathers is joking and when he’s dead serious.” AMG “Nowhere is this more true than on ’97 Bonnie and Clyde, a notorious track where he imagines killing his wife and then disposing of the body with his baby daughter in tow. There have been more violent songs in rap, but few more disturbing, and it’s not because of what it describes, it’s how he describes it – how the perfectly modulated phrasing enhances the horror and black humor of his words.” AMG

“In the first single, My Name Is, he’s self-deprecating, rapping about his poor upbringing and his hairy palms. But on the very next song, Guilty Conscience, he plays the devil to Dr. Dre’s angel – that is, until Eminem brings up an incident from Dre’s devilish past, rapping, ‘You gonna take advice from someone who slapped Dee Barnes?’” AZ

“But he isn’t a straight-up gangsta.” AZ “At a time when many rappers were stuck in the stultifying swamp of gangsta clichés, Eminem broke through the hardcore murk by abandoning the genre’s familiar themes and flaunting a style with more verbal muscle and imagination than any of his contemporaries.” AMG “Years later…it’s those lyrical skills and the subtle mastery of the music that still resonate, and they’re what make The Slim Shady LP one of the great debuts in both hip-hop and modern pop music.” AMG

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