[Iceman]

Eminem Scraps The Sequel: New Album, RECOVERY Set For June 22nd Release

SANTA MONICA, CA - April 15, 2010 - The much-anticipated new album from Eminem, Recovery (Aftermath/Interscope), will be released June 22, 2010, it was announced today by Interscope Records. On Recovery, his seventh major label studio album, Eminem has reached out to an exciting list of first-time collaborators, including DJ Khalil, Just Blaze, Jim Jonsin and Boi-1da, among others.

Eminem releases Recovery just over a year after his last album, 2009’s Relapse. Relapse put the cap on an impressive ten years of recorded output, and contributed to Eminem being the biggest selling artist of 2000-2009. In recognition of this, Neilsen SoundScan named him their Artist of the Decade. Relapse entered the charts at #1 and, at nearly double platinum, was the best selling rap album of last year. It also earned Eminem his 11th Grammy award, winning in the Best Rap Album category. Relapse’s first single, “Crack A Bottle” from Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, soared to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Eminem’s second #1 after 2002’s “Lose Yourself”) and set a SoundScan record at the time of its release for opening week download sales (418,000). The album also spun off two other hits; the Top 10 “We Made You” and Top 20 “Beautiful.”

"I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year," remarked Eminem. "But as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album. The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title."

Eminem has sold more than 78,000,000 albums worldwide. After 1999’s quadruple platinum The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and The E Full Story »

[Scarlett.]

I like this title a lot better

[Rob]

looking forward to this!

[Iceman]

yeah hopefully more up beat songs, relapse was great but very down in parts...

[Scarlett.]

There was something about Relapse, the whole "serial killing drug addict" theme felt..meh

[Iceman]

Yeah I agree, still some classics on the album but i'd prefer a much more solid effort from Recovery

[Scarlett.]

Main thing about Relapse was the only collabarations were with Dr. Dre and 50 Cent and Beautiful was the only proper classic Eminem SONG (not rap, since it has more of a melody, and less of a quick word rap) and funnily enough, that was the only song on the album produced by Eminem xD

[M X]

april 15?
it's only april 14 now. -_-

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by MichaelSpears

april 15?
it's only april 14 now. -_-

LOL I took it from his website....maybe it was supposed to be released to press tomorrow?

[MrGaryy]

Thank God, Relapse was sooooo depressing, I miss the Em from the Eminem Show days

[Scarlett.]

From the title it sounds like its gonna be a lot less depressing :]

[Iceman]

hopefully it will be up beat, like gary said, that era of his was genius and just great in general.

[Iceman]

Fellow rapper 50 Cent previously revealed that he had enjoyed a personal preview of Relapse 2 at the star's house, and was eager to see the record released.

He told BANG Showbiz last year: "He made a whole body of work when he recorded 'Relapse'. When I go to Detroit I stay at his house, so we go in the garage and sit in his car and listen to his new music - and my favourite material is going to be on Relapse 2."

"You have to balance concepts: The deep stuff, the club songs and songs that connect directly with the audience you're looking for - and there was more of the last two on 'Relapse', and I mean, Em, he was coming off... Well, he had a tough time. He was getting high when he was making these albums."