Eminem's has reached the No. 1 spot on the BIllboard 200 chart for the seventh time in his career with The Marshall Mathers LP 2.

Since its Nov. 5 release, Eminem's eighth studio album sold 792,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. This means MMLP2 has had the second highest sales week of 2013. The only album to enjoy a better sales week this year was Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience, which sold 968,000 during its debut week. MMLP2 takes the second-best sales week spot away from Drake's Nothing Was the Same, which debuted with 658,000 copies sold.

The album is Eminem's seventh No. 1 album. The only Eminem album that has never made to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart was his debut album, 1999's The Slim Shady LP, which peaked at No. 2.

MMLP2 is also ranked No. 6 in the list of biggest sales weeks of the past five years. The only albums to have better debut sales since Nov. 2008 was Taylor Swift's Red (1.2 million), Lady Gaga's Born This Way (1.1 million), Swift's Speak Now (1 million), Timberlake and Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV (964,000).

And as if these figures do not make the album epic enough, the singles released from MMLP2 has made Eminem the first artist to have at least four songs in the top-20 of the Billboard Hot 100 as a lead artist since The Beatles did it in April of 1964. "The Monster," peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100. "Berzerk," "Survival" and "Rap God" peaked at numbers 15, 16 and 17, respectively.

"The Monster" also placed Eminem at the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for the first time in his career.

MMLP2 was produced by Rick Rubin and Dr. Dre.

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