The Black Eyed Peas, Boom Boom Pow – 4,349,000Ħ. Nelly, Country Grammar – 8,461,000 America's top-selling digital songs of the decade, according to Nielsen SoundScan:ġ. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP – 10,204,000ħ. Norah Jones, Come Away With Me – 10, 546,000Ĥ. The top-selling albums of the decade in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan:Ģ. According to (August 16, 2010), Eminem's record sales of 32. Lady Gaga, Jason Mraz, the Black Eyed Peas and Soulja Boy all appear in the top 10 – with Coldplay's Viva La Vida poking its head in at No 8. pages were among music commerce pages available in 2011, along with iTunes. Low, released by rapper Flo Rida in 2007, was the decade's most successful digital song, selling 5.2m copies. While sales of CD singles dwindled in the early 2000s, the success of digital services like iTunes led to a new boom. 20 The song was available through iTunes on March 9, 2010. More than anywhere else, the impact of the internet can be seen on the singles charts, filled with tracks from the last three years. announced on The Rickey Smiley Show that the album would now be. Currently, Music To Be Murdered By is No.1 album in the United States on iTunes Top 200 Albums chart and his 2002 hit song Lose Yourself is No.1 on iTunes Top 200 Singles chart. Nickelback's How You Remind Me took the top spot, with 1.2m spins since 2001, while acts such as Lifehouse and Three Doors Down were runners-up. Eminem’s Oscar performance has really boosted his album and single sales. Instead, the decade's most-broadcast tunes were mostly grim, gravely modern rock songs. Strangely, few of these acts dominanted American radio. 02 Eminem My Name Is 03 Eminem Guilty Conscience (feat. The other heavy hitters include Justin Timberlake's former boy-band, 'NSync, Britney Spears, R&B singer Usher, rockers Linkin Park and Creed, and the debut by chanteuse Norah Jones. Between these and his other releases, Eminem has sold about 32.2m albums since Y2K – compared with the mop-tops' meagre 30m, according to Nielsen SoundScan.Įminem was the only act to have two albums in the decade's top 10. Though the Fab Four's greatest hits compilation, One, was the decade's bestselling record, Eminem had two albums in the top 10 – 2000's The Marshall Mathers LP at No 's The Eminem Show at No 5. In the end, it was a battle between Slim Shady and the Beatles. The irreverent, newly sober rapper has been named America's bestselling act of the last 10 years. 2000 Eminem The Real Slim Shady The Marshall Mathers LP 11,450,000. Though the 2010s may belong to Susan Boyle and Lady Gaga, the 2000s belonged to Eminem, at least in the United States. Instead, it includes weighted sales of the song’s physical single, download, ringtone and streaming as well as its share among sales of all albums on which it is featured.