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KATHMANDU, July 30: American rapper Eminem's latest album, "The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace)," is his twelfth studio album, released on July 12, 2024. Since its release, the album debuted at number one in over 16 countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom.
In the United States, the album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, amassing 281,000 album-equivalent units, which consisted of 114,000 downloads and 164,500 stream-equivalent units. This gave Eminem his 11th album to top the chart, tying him with Barbra Streisand, Kanye West, and Bruce Springsteen for the fifth-highest number of albums to reach the summit. The album was also the highest-selling rap album of 2024 and is the second-largest album sold of the year behind Taylor Swift's "The Tortured Poets Department."
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"The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace)" also opened atop the UK Albums Chart with 45000 chart units and became his 11th album to secure that spot. It remained at the top position for two consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number 1 in an additional fourteen countries, including Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
The album received generally mixed reviews from music critics, with an average score of just 46 on Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, making the rapper's new album fairly average. Billboard further stated that the best track on the album was "Somebody Save Me," describing it as a "teary-eyed end to Slim Shady's journey."
On July 11, 2024, a day before the release of the album, Eminem posted a "public service announcement" on X (formerly known as Twitter), saying that the album is 'conceptual' and advised the fans to listen to all the songs in order. On July 19, 2024, a week after the release of the album, "Somebody Save Me," a collaboration with American Singer Jelly Roll, was released on all streaming platforms, marking the rapper's third single of the year.
