Even though it never reached No. 1 on the chart, the 8 Mile anthem proves its staying power by hanging around for 500 weeks.
Eminem’s catalogue is packed with hits, but “Lose Yourself” continues to stand in a league of its own. More than twenty years after it first dropped, the 8 Mile anthem just reached an impressive new milestone: 500 weeks on Billboard’s Rap Digital Song Sales chart.
The song dipped slightly on this week’s tally, sliding from No. 6 to No. 8, but that hardly dulls the achievement. Very few songs in any genre manage to stick around for 500 weeks, and it’s even rarer for a rap track to do it on a sales chart rather than a streaming one.
“Lose Yourself” has never topped this specific Billboard ranking, it only went to No.2 there. Still, its longevity tells the bigger story: fans continue to buy it, revisit it, and connect with it decades later. It made a journey from being a soundtrack of an obscure rap drama to becoming a motivational anthem that presidents rap. Until now, it remains one of Eminem’s most enduring cultural touchstones.
