The Marshall Mathers LP

The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) is the third studio album by the American rapper Eminem, released on May 23, 2000, by Aftermath Entertainment, WEB and Interscope Records.

The Marshall Mathers LP sold 1.76 million copies in the United States its first week, at the time the second-highest single week sales for an album in the SoundScan era, behind only the 2.4 million copies sold by NSYNC's No Strings Attached earlier that year. The album sold more than twice as many copies as the previous record holder for the highest single week sales for a hip hop or rap album, Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle, which sold 806,000 copies in its first week in 1993. It sold over 800,000 copies in its second week, 600,000 copies in its third week, and 520,000 copies in its fourth week for a four-week total of 3.65 million. It also became one of the few albums to sell over 500,000 copies for four consecutive weeks. In total, the album spent eight weeks at number 1 on the US Billboard 200, ranking it fourth on the current all-time list of weeks spent at number 1 by a rap or hip-hop album.