Streaming numbers have brought Drake to the chart tops in the 2010s, but he cannot compete with Marshall when it comes to pure sales.
Earlier this week, Billboard that the chart-topping rapper will receive the Artist of the Decade Award at the Billboard Music Awards on May 23.
Drake would also lose to Taylor Swift and Adele, who did even better selling their albums than Marshall. Nevertheless, Eminem was the best selling male artist across all genres in the 2010s.
@HipHopNumbers compiled the numbers in two very impressive lines:
13.86 million albums
63.50 million singles
This is the number of copies Eminem sold over the last decade. With 10.5 million album copies moved, Drake, however, was not even the fourth on the list of best-selling artists, lagging behind Justin Bieber, who shows 12.1 pure album sales in the 2010s.
There are no certain criteria for awarding anyone with the Artist of the Decade Award, it is up to Billboard to decide who gets it. But still, let’s not forget that the last decade was highly successful for Marshall, who returned to the scene after literally battling death. He came back with new skills, new energy and old hunger for perfection. He came back and right to the top that he shared with young artists of the new generation.
