If you though Drake's album sale numbers were impressive , wait til you see what Eminem did last week.

The past seven days has been an impressive and urgently needed week for hip hop album sales. Drake's Thank Me Later is onto its second week on the shelves but that album had to settle for second place because of Eminem's monumental first week sales.

In just seven days, Eminem's Recovery album has already sold
741,000 copies outdoing every hip hop album released since Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III in 2007. Congratulations to Eminem for the insane success and to Drake for earning that gold status he was so close to earning last week. His album pushed 156,000 copies, lower than his first week but still impressive especially for a debut project. These two artists are a testament that fans will go out and buy an album if it is worth spending the money.