After over 100 million people viewed the Super Bowl halftime show, Dr. Dre and Eminem — who performed alongside Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar — are reaping the benefits on the Billboard 200.
Slim Shady signed to Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment label in 1998, and now both stars have returned to the top 10 of the album chart. Eminem’s 2005 compilation Curtain Call: The Hits, which has been certified seven-times Platinum by the RIAA, vaulted from #126 to #8 this week. The album includes his Academy Award-winning “Lose Yourself,” which he performed during the halftime performance. This is the first time Curtain Call has been in the Billboard 200’s top 10 since 2006.
Dre’s second studio album, 2001, which was released in 1999, jumped from #109 to #9. The six-times-Platinum record has not been in the top 10 since 2000. Songs from the album performed at the Super Bowl included “The Next Episode,” “Forgot About Dre” and “Still D.R.E.”
As previously reported, all the Super Bowl performers experienced big sales bumps immediately after the game.
Sales of the songs heard during the performance increased by an overall factor of 775% compared to the two days prior to the show. The top-selling song performed was “The Next Episode,” which opened the show. Sales of that song alone increased 994%.
The next best-selling songs were “Lose Yourself“; “Still D.R.E.”; Blige’s Dre-produced 2001 hit “Family Affair”; and 2Pac‘s 1995 song “California Love,” which also was produced by Dr. Dre and was performed by Dre and Snoop during the show.
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