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Iceman · 03-10-2012, 07:30 PM

Love The Way You Lie is growing in plays on YT ??? anyway it's surpassed 500 million views......

Iceman · 03-10-2012, 07:33 PM

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Facebook® and YouTube® represent 2 of the 3 most popular Internet domains; as per Alexa® traffic ranking [3] they currently reside on the 1st and 3rd places, correspondingly (second place, as expected, goes to Google). In this regards, the first question probably should be: how popular is YouTube per se on Facebook? And the answer is: #2, based on the most Likes statistics. Then, (consequently), who’s the #1 on FB? Well, you will find out later in this article…

Included multiple tables and charts clearly visualize the astronomical popularity numbers of both YouTube top-ranked videos of all times and most Liked Facebook pages’ statistics.

View slideshow: Facebook and YouTube popularity statistics, Oct 2012
YouTube Top10 of all times

Following table and attached chart include Top-10 YouTube [2] videos:

Rank-Views Performer-Title
1 783,827,140 Justin Bieber-Baby
2 602,245,807 Jennifer Lopez-On The Floor
3 499,819,620 Eminem-Love The Way You Lie
4 494,039,393 Shakira-Waka Waka (2010 FIFA)
5 488,381,453 Lady Gaga-Bad Romance
6 486,594,869 LMFAO-Party Rock Anthem
7 484,525,735 Charlie bit my finger - again!
8 438,588,059 Michel Teló-Ai Se Eu Te Pego
9 390,366,194 Don Omar-Danza Kuduro
10 363,831,681 Eminem-Not Afraid

YouTube Top-10, Oct 2012
Photo credit: Alexander Bell
YouTube Top5 music vids, side notes

1. Justin Bieber remains the most popular entertainer on the planet based on YouTube stats shown above. His musical video clip "Baby" added about 10 million views within last month, currently totaling approximately 783 MegaViews (million views). This stratospheric popularity index far exceeds the entire population of USA, Canada [2] and Mexico combined, accounting for more than 1/3 of global Internet users’ base (about 2.267 billion as per [3]). The aggregated number of views for all of his hit songs available on YouTube is now getting close to 2.6 billion, which is greater than entire Internet community user base, also exceeding 1/3 of the entire world population.

2. “On The Floor” performed by Jennifer Lopez is going figuratively through the roof currently accounted for more than 602 MegaViews, also outnumbering the entire population of North America.

3. Eminem and Rihanna’s collaborative song “Love The Way You Lie” is gaining a lot of popularity, nearing 500 MViews mark and currently residing at the 3rd place in the list.

4. "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" performed by Shakira resides at the 4th line, currently flying over the 494 MegaViews.

5. Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" is getting better, adding about 4 million views within last month and totaling approx. 488 MViews.

Most Liked pages on Facebook

Most Liked pages on Facebook [1] are listed in the following table and also included in the Chart (see attached slideshow):

Rank-Page Facebook Likes
1 Texas Hold’em Poker 64,789,912
2 YouTube® 63,109,881
3 Eminem 61,119,260
4 Rihanna 60,287,717
5 The Simpsons 54,817,744
6 Shakira 54,625,250
7 Lady Gaga 53,133,796
8 Coca-Cola 51,970,996
9 Michael Jackson 51,815,665
10 Harry Potter 50,362,383
11 Cristiano Ronaldo 48,608,234
12 Family Guy 48,120,198
13 Justin Bieber 46,503,255
14 Katy Perry 46,287,023
15 Linkin Park 45,134,996
16 South Park 41,810,294
17 Akon 41,768,707
18 Lil Wayne 40,418,487
19 Bob Marley 40,278,518
20 Beyoncé 38,634,167

Now, answering that question raised in introductory paragraph: the #1 title in this Chart belongs to Texas Hold’em Poker, followed by YouTube® itself (#2).

Eminem is the highest ranked celebrity-performer, occupying 3rd position in the chart. Notably, most of the list is made of popular performer-entertainers with only one person representing big sport, namely:Cristiano Ronaldo at #11, right below Harry Potter. Big business is represented by Coca-Cola (#8), just above Michael Jackson but below Lady Gaga. And, interestingly, kind of “story of two parks”: Linkin Park (#15) neighboring South Park (#16) in the chart.

Update on FB and YT stats.

Iceman · 06-10-2012, 11:55 AM

About 11 days away from his 40th Birthday. I really expect something about an album on that day....he's been far too quiet.

Iceman · 08-10-2012, 10:04 PM

Ugh Big Sean...

9 days to 40. They say life begins then?????

Iceman · 10-10-2012, 11:06 AM

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It took six weeks of rehearsals and reams of flubbed lines, but by the time 8 Mile hit theaters, Eminem had scored a hip-hop movie masterpiece. Shining a light on both sides of Detroit’s railroad tracks—trailer parks and battle cyphers—Em’s first leading role is a true underdog story, bolstered by callous punch lines and a guy named Cheddar Bob. Ten years after the classic film’s premiere, VIBE rounds up the gang—Eminem, Mekhi Phifer, Anthony Mackie, Evan Jones and Omar Benson Miller—to wax cinematic. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime…
Written by Jeff Rosenthal

VIBE: Eminem, at the time you hadn’t really acted before; but the story was based in Detroit, based off of some of your life experiences. When the cameras stopped rolling, did you feel that you headed further into these guys’ world of acting, or they into yours?
Eminem (B-Rabbit): I definitely felt like I was about to embark on some **** that was not necessarily up my alley. It was all brand new, and I’m so glad I had all of these guys around me. My hardest part, was remembering the lines. ‘Cause really, all I had to do was take myself back into the mind frame of how I felt before I got signed with Dre. It wasn’t really too much to just be myself.
Anthony Mackie (Papa Doc): It was crazy for me because it was my first job. When we started, I didn’t really have no lines. Mother****ers would be like, “Yo, your character sucks, so we just added this. Do this.” My biggest thing was just trying to be on the same level as Mekhi ****ing Phifer.
Mekhi Phifer (Future): You pulled it off, Cat Daddy! You pulled it off!
Eminem: When I look back at the movie, one of the cool things is we all became friends on the set. The film carried over to how we [eventually] interacted in real life.
You always said this isn’t your life story. Does it matter that everybody thinks it is?
Eminem: It doesn’t really matter to me. People who really listen to my music probably know what’s real in that movie and what’s not. There were bits and pieces that were taken from my life, but for the most part, it was the story of the underdog. We rehearsed so much before we even started the film, and I was in every scene. I was there every day from 6 a.m. until—half the time—5 in the morning the next day. It became a point where I felt like I am this person. I’m ****ing B-Rabbit because I was living this movie. I had no choice but to be him.
In hindsight, everyone thinks this movie was an easy decision, but the studio and Jimmy Iovine were wondering if this could hurt the Eminem brand. Mariah Carey’s Glitter had just tanked and the last time Universal had worked with a rapper was on Cool As Ice with Vanilla Ice. Mekhi, you initially passed on the movie. Why?
Phifer: I was due to start ER and 9/11 had just happened. They was like, “Okay, we want you to fly to Detroit.” It was like, September 13. “I ain’t getting on no plane! I’m staying here and I’m gonna be a doctor, Goddamn it!” I hadn’t read the script yet, and they were so hush-hush about the script that I had to sit and read it in [director] Curtis [Hanson’s] office because they weren’t releasing it. But when I read it, I thought, Oh, this is kinda slick! They had me go to Detroit to see if me and Em was going to have chemistry…This cat became my man so fast that I was like, “This is gonna be dope.” And when I met all the rest of the guys, I was all in. It was the best decision I ever made.
Omar Benson Miller (Sol George): 8 Mile is so revered, it’s like everywhere I go, somebody’s talking about it. Yesterday, me and Cheddar were walking down the street, heads down, and some kid walked up to us from behind and was like, “Anything goes when it comes to hoes/I’m the kingpin when it comes to flows…”
Evan Jones (Cheddar Bob): [Laughs] Yeah, who wrote that rap?
Eminem: That **** should’ve been a single. “Ten freaky girls! Ten! Ten!”
Benson Miller: I just want to bring up something: Because of Em’s celebrity, not being able to move around so much, Proof was out there a lot. And I can remember the wrap party literally... We kept singing the song and they didn’t want to let me and Cheddar into the wrap party because they didn’t know who we were. Proof came out and it was all good! I’ve been doing movies for a while now, and there’s a lot of funny dudes out there. The inclusive nature of you guys, Em and Mekhi, who were already on and who were senior to us in that sense, was great. It was really something special.
Eminem: I definitely appreciate that.
Phifer: You’re cool cats. Y’all made it easy on us.
Mekhi, your character was based off of Proof. Did you have any long conversations to try and really understand who he was?
Phifer: I definitely spoke to Proof. I didn’t sit him down, because to me the character spoke for itself. I mean, I wanted to portray him as he was in ’95. That’s why you see me with that wig, that crazy wig! [Laughs] And that even came down to the wire—we almost couldn’t do dreads because they couldn’t get the wig right.
Eminem: [Laughs] We used to call Proof “the Wolverine” because at the Hip-Hop Shop, his hair was crazy. I think that, for the most part, being that I wasn’t playing Marshall, Mekhi’s character didn’t have to be exactly like Proof. As long as it had that authenticity, which I felt it did. He just had to be Detroit.
Evan, what was Eminem like in those first rehearsals?
Eminem: I was a ****ing dick! [Laughs]
Jones: Like everyone’s been saying, he was fantastic. Right off the bat, he took us to the Detroit Lions game. On the way back, you jumped in our car and played us some new tunes off your album [The Eminem Show], and it was so good. You made us all feel like family.
Eminem: Wow, that’s crazy. I forgot about the Lions game, man! That was nuts!
Mackie: My ’hood-ass group, Em was taking me to shoot pool and strippers was jacking me out of my per diem and ****!
Eminem: We was making it rain with your per diem?
Mackie: We was at the bedbug inn and I was fighting in the parking lots of strip clubs for per diem. When keeping it real goes wrong.
Eminem: “Making It Rain With Per Diem,” I think that might be the name of my next album.
Movies are a collaborative process, and they can get screwed up at any point in the creative process. When did you first begin to feel confident that this would be a successful motion picture?
Benson Miller: Evan and I talk about it a lot, us all being so young... I had no idea it was going to be a classic. Even when the movie came out and was a mammoth, I just thought this was how everything goes… But I remember Curtis had us all come together to show us a little highlight reel of the film. It was probably four or five minutes, and it was dope! Everybody was like, “Oh, we’re on to something now!”
Eminem: I was just hoping I didn’t look stupid in that ****. “I just hope that it’s a decent movie and it does okay and just doesn’t suck.”
Phifer: I remember our first day of shooting was when we was leaving Cheddar Bob’s house because he shot himself, and we go into Big O’s little car… It felt real. And when me and Em was doing “Sweet Home Alabama.” But when I really knew was in the battle scenes; the crowd, the extras, they made those battle scenes. The rhymes were dope, but the extras were… They made it hype. Being up there hosting and feeling that energy, it just felt… special. Even our energy in the scenes, it felt like something I hadn’t done before. It didn’t feel actor-y. It just felt like we were “being.”
How were the battle scenes written?
Eminem: I think Curtis had a lot of the guys write their own things, and then I would see what they were going to say. I might sit there with some of the guys and be like, “What if you changed this?” The hardest thing for me was trying to figure out what that last [rhyme] was going to be. As I was going back and forth with the other guys about what they were going to say—“Okay, if you’re going to say that, then I’ll write this”—the last one was [challenging] because I didn’t have anything to respond off of. So I had to write it myself, off what somebody could say to me.
Mackie: I’ve gotta give it to Curtis, because he challenged us. It wasn’t just, “Okay, bring us what you’ve got.” He kept you on edge, like, is this enough? Am I giving enough?
Eminem: That’s the other thing, too, with the battle scenes. I remember him saying, “This **** has gotta be flawless. [Then] Curtis would say, “Is this good enough?” I went back and rewrote a couple of lines. Curtis definitely, definitely pushed us.
Anthony, you play Papa Doc, the leader of Free World. Now, I don’t mean to start any fights 10 years after the fact, but do you think Rabbit still could’ve won had his manager not been the host?
Mackie: Man, **** no! I told Curtis, “There is no way he would’ve won that battle!” That was my whole argument! I said, we should have a tie at first and that’s when he comes back and do the **** he did. But when we did it, it was so cold and it worked so well. The energy of the crowd was so intense when we was filming that people was passing out and ****, throwing up because it was just so chaotic in there. Still, I know for a fact, if the Chin Tiki was that crazy, no way he could have beat me if his manager wasn’t the host. If I’m the killuminati of the Tiki?
Phifer: That wasn’t at the Chin Tiki, fool! Go watch the movie again. That was at The Shelter! [Laughs]
Eminem: Man, we had 10 freaky girls in the Chin Tiki. How were you ****ing it up?
Jones: You know, you had the line where you said, “This guy went to Cranbrook, that’s a private school,” and we all thought whatever… But Mitt Romney went there!
Mackie: That’s crazy. I didn’t know that!
Phifer: That’s the type of cats Papa Doc was hanging out with. Straight Republicans.
Mackie: When Papa Doc became mayor of Detroit, I bulldozed all that ****.
Evan, Omar was talking about you getting recognized as Cheddar Bob. Have you learned to shoot a gun in the past 10 years?
Jones: The gun in that movie was the crappiest gun I’ve seen, ever, in all the movies I’ve been in.
Eminem: That was like a cowboy gun.
Jones: I love that Plaxico Burress was called Cheddar Bob forever.
Benson Miller: Cheddar Bob has gotten hella rap references.
Phifer: Beanie Sigel.
Eminem: Busta Rhymes.
Phifer: You know what’s so funny, Evan? You did
your thing, B, because people come up to me sometimes and go, “Was Cheddar Bob really like that?” I’m like, “Nah, Evan is good! He’s not mildly retarded or nothing. He’s a very intelligent man!”
[Laughter]
Phifer: But he played that role, that’s what I’m saying! You played it!
One of the extras said in an interview that Brittany Murphy was on the set, singing at the top of her lungs and hanging from ladders, but she could instantly get into character when the director was ready. What was she like to be around?
Eminem: Brittany was a good person, a super-nice girl. She was very down-to-earth; she’d talk to anybody.
Jones: And a really good actress. She brought so much to that role.
Phifer: She was bubbly.
Mackie: She was always speaking positivity, and when it was time to get busy, she got busy! Like Evan said, she brought a lot to the role. I remember reading it and not thinking there was so much on the page.
Em, tell me about writing songs on the set.
Eminem: I remember doing “Lose Yourself.” I went to the trailer during lunch and laid a scratch from top to bottom, just one take through and then stacked some ad-libs and ****. I was going to come back and re-do it. I actually ended up keeping it. That’s my most vivid memory—that song, and walking around set with a pad of paper. If I didn’t have that, I’d write it on my hand. I was like a little hamster: I’d go from my lunch trailer to the treadmill to run and then jump to the music trailer to make some beats.
Since we’re discussing “Lose Yourself,” growing up, how was your mom’s spaghetti?
Eminem: How was it? From what I remember, it was pretty damn good. Like goulash. [Laughs]
8 Mile is a dark movie, but there are definitely some bright spots: Cheddar Bob’s gunshot wound; Eminem battling Xzibit. Which day was the most fun on set?
Benson Miller: Wow. The freestyle session in the parking lot was a lot of fun, except it was so long! We were there like 19 hours that day!
Eminem: And like four degrees out.
Phifer: That’s what I was happy to have the dreads for—it was like a little hat.
Benson Miller: You know what? The final battle. Curtis did a really smart thing, and so did Marshall, because he didn’t preview to us what he was going to say. So he just shot the rehearsal.
Mackie: Those reactions are real.
Phifer: When we burned down the house? Em, you remember we almost died in that joint! The pyrotechnic dude almost blew himself up, singed his eyebrows off and all of that. He’s got that surprised look now—no eyebrows.
Eminem: I got my **** singed a little bit, too. I can’t remember exactly how that **** went down, but…
Phifer: Didn’t you jump out the window or some crazy ****?
Eminem: Yeah.
Mackie: You guys were all on the second floor [with] all the camera guys. The gas line got a kink in it, so the dude turned the gas up and fire flames came kicking out the windows… and the guys all threw their cameras and jumped out the window.
Eminem: Yeah, the **** just ****ing went up! I think they got it on film, but then they dropped the camera. What you see in the movie is the actual thing that happened, and then I’m sure they actually cut because the **** was real.
Phifer: It was like an inferno!
Benson Miller: It was so hot. It really was like, six, seven degrees outside, and I remember thinking, Man, I should take my jacket off.
Anthony, they were talking earlier about how people wrote their own rhymes—you didn’t get the chance to rap at the end. I’m just wondering, how nice are you on the mic?
Mackie: Oh, I’m an assassin on the mic.
Eminem: So, you’re not nice at all. You’re completely the opposite. You’re very impolite on the mic.
Mackie: [Laughs] That’s why Curtis only wanted me to have one verse, because he was like, “Nobody’s going to believe that this guy would lose!” [Laughs]
8 Mile ends on such an uncertain note: Will Rabbit succeed? Will he fail? Em, was there any discussion to make the ending more definitive?
Eminem: Nah, I don’t think there ever was. The coolest thing was it was open for interpretation. Curtis was saying was that it was so open you could make your own determination of what happened. You kind of saw where Jimmy was going, but you weren’t 100 percent sure. It could’ve worked out, it could’ve not. But I think one of the coolest things [about the movie is] the ending.
Jones: Yeah, it was just another week in the life. Kids who watch it, they don’t realize.
Benson Miller: It’s the vulnerability; nobody has to be invincible. Everybody has that vulnerable moment that everyone can associate with. In other movies, there’s a glorification oftentimes of the lead; where you want to make the lead so likable and lovable that there’s a superhuman-ness to him. This movie stayed away from that. We’ve gotta give a lot of credit and a lot of love to that.
Eminem, this movie broadened your base to an incredible degree—after its release, you were suddenly surrounded by stadiums of people ages 5 to 55, which is weird considering the word “****” is said 200 times in 110 minutes. Were you prepared for parents to like you?
Eminem: My career up to that point was very me-against-the-world. That was the mentality that I had—“**** everybody.” And then all of these parents loving me? It was weird. Like, **** am I going to do now? I need to figure out a new way to piss people off. I wasn’t ready for that. I still don’t understand it. It is what it is. I don’t even know what that means, but it is what it is.

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime......

Iceman · 10-10-2012, 11:06 AM

Iceman · 10-10-2012, 11:10 AM

Also I think that's the first interview since he's come back that doesn't mention his addiction

LET THE HYPE BEGIN.

Iceman · 15-10-2012, 10:09 PM

Rock Am Rio 13 headliners are out this week, looks like Em is one of them....

Iceman · 16-10-2012, 10:01 PM

40 facts for 40 years:

Eminem has hit the milestone of his 40th birthday so to celebrate, what's better than 40 fast facts about the man himself?!

1. Here's a simple one to start with: Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on 17 October, 1972. Click through the gallery to find out which big film role he missed out on and which of his songs is most likely to cause a car accident...

2. Eminem's mother Deborah was only 15 when she had him. Her father, Marshall Mathers Jr, abandoned the family six months after the birth.

3. Of his childhood, he said: “I'd go to six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mum never ever worked.” He preferred rap battles to school and dropped out at 17 after twice failing the ninth grade. He first used the pseudonym M&M, which stands for Marshall Mathers, when he was 14.

4. His rocky relationship with his mother worsened when he found fame. In 1999 she attempted to sue him for US$10 million for slandering her in his lyrics. In Cleaning Out My Closet he raps: 'Just try to envision witnessing your momma popping prescription pills in the kitchen.' She was unsuccessful.

5. Eminem married his childhood sweetheart, Kimberly Scott, twice - once in 1999...

6. ...and again at the height of his fame in 2006, pictured. They split for good later that same year.

7. Eminem has custody of his daughter Hailie Jade, who has been mentioned in many of her father's hits, including,'97 Bonnie & Clyde, Hailie's Song and My Dad's Gone Crazy.

8. Eminem has adopted two other girls, Lainie, Kim's sister's child, and Whitney, her daughter from a previous relationship.

9. He was sued for defamation by his ex-wife after he rapped about her death in the song Kim, and accused her of cheating on him.

10. Eminem was discovered after he came second in the 1997 Rap Olympics and Jimmy Iovine, boss of Interscope Records, liked what he heard. Fifteen years later, Eminem is still with Interscope.

11. Em's mentor Dr Dre heard his raps on tape and didn't realise he was white until they met in the studio for the first time. Afterwards the hip-hop mogul said, 'I don't care what colour, size or age as long as they can rap'.

12. He went on to become the world's best-selling artist of the noughties, shifting over 32.2 million albums in the decade.

13. Eminem's Ronnie RIP tattoo is in honour of his uncle Ronald Nelson, who first introduced him to hip-hop. Ronnie killed himself in 1991.

14. Eminem also has a large tattoo of his daughter on his right arm, above the words 'Bonnie & Clyde'. Just when you think he's gone soft, he also has 'Kim Rot In Pieces' on his torso.

15. He's a record breaker: The Marshall Mathers LP, released in 2000, became both the fastest-selling hip-hop album and the fastest-selling solo album in US history.

16. Eminem's first major acting role was as B-Rabbit in 8 Mile, a semi-autobiographical tale about an amateur rapper growing up in Detroit. But you can also spot him in The Wash - Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre's 2001 film about a car wash, which featured cameos from many of hip-hop's elite including Ludacris and Xzibit.

17. Lose Yourself won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, becoming the first rap song to win the award. Unfortunately, Eminem declined an invitation to the ceremony because he was convinced he wouldn't win.

18. Lose Yourself also had the dubious honour of winning a poll to find the song most likely to cause a car accident.

19. The budding actor almost starred in the film Jumper opposite Rachel Bilson, but they eventually cast Hayden Christensen instead.

20. Twice Eminem has had the world's highest selling album in a given year - 2002's The Eminem Show and 2010's Recovery.

21. To be signed to Eminem's label, Shady Records, one of the requirements is a freestyle rap battle with the man himself.

22. In 2006, Eminem's best friend, Proof from D12, was shot and killed following an argument over a game of pool.

23. Eminem entered rehab after becoming addicted to painkillers following Proof's death. 'I felt like I needed to pull back from the spotlight because it was getting out of control,' he explained. 'I mean, you could blame my drug problem on genetics, you could blame it on my career and the way it took off, or you could just blame it on me.'

24. Eminem has had a couple of brushes with the law and in 2001 he was sentenced to two years' probation for carrying a loaded weapon.

25. Eminem is left-handed. Die-hard fans were apparently overjoyed to have solved this little mystery when their idol was filmed writing a letter in the video for Stan.

26. Eminem attempted to build bridges (following accusations of homophobic lyrics) by performing with Elton John at the Grammy Awards in 2001. But the venue was picketed by irate members of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), who were appalled that Elton would agree to share a shage with someone they considered homophobic.

27. Eminem ranks third on Forbes' list of the biggest social media celebrities, behind Rihanna and Lady Gaga.

28. Eminem suffered at the hands of school bullies and nearly died of a brain hemorrhage when a school yard attack left him in a coma. The bully, D'Angelo Bailey, has been named in a couple of Eminem's tracks, most notably in Brain Damage.

29. To help fight bullies Eminem founded his own charity, The Marshall Mathers Foundation, which helps disadvantaged youth near his home in Detroit.

30. His official Vevo page on YouTube has had over two billion views... and counting.

31. Love the Way You Lie, Eminem's duet with Rihanna, was the best-selling single of 2010 in the United Kingdom despite never topping the UK chart.

32. In July, the rapper became the first person to reach 60 million fans on Facebook. Michael Jackson previously had the most popular Facebook page until Eminem eclipsed him in 2011.

33. Eminem was investigated by both the CIA and United States Secret Service for being a threat to national security after he rapped that he wanted to kill President George W Bush in his track Mosh.

34. In 2009 Eminem teamed up with Family Guy's evil child genius Stewie Griffin to present a series of special cartoons. 'It was a thrill to work with Stewie. I am a big fan of talking babies and their humour,' he deadpanned.

35. Before having aspirations to become a rapper, Em wanted to illustrate comic books. One of his prized possessions is an early edition Avengers comic which was given to him by a British TV host after he'd appeared on his show.

36. Eminem was the first hip-hop artist to win the Best Rap Album category at the Grammy Awards for three consecutive releases - The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show. He has since also won the award in 2010 for Relapse and 2011 for Recovery.

37. His childhood nickname was 'Mickey' thanks to his big ears.

38. These days, Eminem is a bit of a health nut – he watches what he eats and won’t even go near soft drinks with aspartame in them. 'They say it's been known to cause cancer, so I cut that s**t out,” he explained.

39. When his most recent album, Recovery, topped the charts, Eminem broke another record – for the most successive US number one albums by a solo artist.

40. And he's showing no signs of slowing down - Eminem's untitled eighth studio album is due in 2013. It will feature collaborations with 50 Cent and his longtime producer Dr Dre.