The Most Influential
American music magazine Billboard had completed the list of the most successful artists of this decade. It was particularly completed while considering data on the sold out albums and charts’ statistics from December 4, 1999 till November 28, 2009. Pretty cool thing, but again very official as everything what is produced within the Billboard frames. According to the final report, the biggest artist of this decade is Eminem who’s four out of five studio albums have conquered number one spot on the Billboard 200 list. The only Eminem’s albumswhich could not get into the Billboard’s game was “The Slim Shady LP” - in 1999 it took number two, but stayed in the chart all along 2000. Eminem is surely very talented and unique; nobody is able to be on his place and possibly he will remain the only one forever. However, Billboard’s charting and grading system is very censored by the Billboard itself and definitely there were way more artists and musicians who have deserved to be not less influential than Eminem. As Nielsen SoundScan company said, so far Eminem had sold 32,2 million copies worldwide - not the worst result, so maybe he is the most influential. Besides that, his most recent album “Relapse” was number one on sales in the US until it was kicked out by Susan Boyle (oops).