On October 10, Billboard tweeted that Eminem’s best-of album, CURTAIN CALL, is the first hip-hop album to surpass 600 weeks on the chart. It is the sixth album ever to reach this milestone.
.@Eminem‘s ‘Curtain Call: The Hits’ has now spent 600 total weeks on the #Billboard200 (No. 35 this week).
It’s the first hip-hop project in history to reach the milestone and the sixth album overall.
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) October 10, 2022
At the same time, the song “Godzilla” reached over a billion streams and contains loud genius the fastest part Eminem ever rapped. With the endorsement of Juice WRLD, the song “Godzilla” is the sixth song by Eminem to reach this mark.
The album CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS was released in 2005 and contains singles like “My name is”, “Stan”, “Lose Yourself” and “The Real Slim Shady”. In Germany the album was awarded gold five times and in the USA it even received a diamond for 10 million units sold.
The follow-up, CURTAIN CALL 2, Eminem’s second best-of, was released on August 5th, 2022.
GODZILLA
On the third part of the song, Eminem raps 224 words in about 31 seconds, which equals 330 syllables. This results in 10.65 syllables per second or 7.23 words per second.
For comparison: Up “Rap God” he raps 99 words in about 16 seconds, which equals 157 syllables. That’s 9.6 syllables per second, or 6.07 words per second.