According to Nielsen Music’s decade-end report, Eminem is the bestselling male artist of the 2010s, and combining with his previous achievement as the best selling artist of the 2000s, it makes him the best selling albums artist of the century in the US.
Mind you, these are pure album sales, when people actually paid money for his music.
He sold over 30 million albums in the previous decade, making him the bestselling artist of the 2000s and the bestselling rapper of all time.
The 2010s were also successful for Marshall. He had the fourth-bestselling album of the last decade, with 2010’s “Recovery” selling 4.867 million copies. “The Marshall Mathers LP 2”, released in 2013, is also certified 4x platinum by the RIAA, while “Revival” (2017 ) is certified gold and “Kamikaze” ( 2018) is certified platinum.