Curtain Call 2 is the second greatest hits album by American rapper Eminem. It was released on August 5, 2022, by Aftermath Entertainment, Shady Records, and Interscope Records. A double album, it is a successor of his previous greatest hits album, Curtain Call: The Hits (2005). The compilation covers the most recent years of Eminem's career, since his return to music from his hiatus, starting from the release of Relapse in 2009.
The album includes three new songs, "The King and I" featuring CeeLo Green, "From the D 2 the LBC" featuring Snoop Dogg, and "Is This Love ('09)" featuring 50 Cent.
Curtain Call 2 was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 74, based on four reviews.
Along with the 20th anniversary edition of The Eminem Show, it received nomination for an Outstanding Anthology/Compilation/Reissue at the 2023 Detroit Music Awards, but lost to Alice Cooper's Live from the Astroturf: Good Records Dallas, Texas 10/06/15. Both of its singles, "The King & I" and "From the D 2 the LBC," were nominated for an Outstanding National Single, but lost to Lizzo's "About Damn Time".
Description[]
The deluxe version of Eminem's 2005 "greatest hits" album Curtain Call contains 24 songs compiled from the previous six years of his catalogue. How, then, are we to regard the wealth of hits that came after, songs like Em's unflappable assertion of elite-tier MCing "Rap God," the heart-wrenching testament to his vulnerability "Not Afraid," or even blockbuster collaborations like "Walk on Water" (Beyoncé), "Won't Back Down" (P!nk), or "The Monster" and "Love the Way You Lie" (Rihanna)? Curtain Call 2, anyone? The MC's output post-Encore is all well-represented here, the project's curators having made sure to include everything from late-career link-ups with the big dogs of his era (Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent) to his work with fans turned formidable MCs in their own right like Joyner Lucas, Juice WRLD, and Yelawolf. At 35 tracks, it's a heaping helping of Em, and one that's sure to remind fans why we can't help but stick around long after he's left the stage. – Apple Music
Commercial performance[]
The album debuted at number six on the US Billboard 200, earning 43,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.[1] Curtain Call 2 was the best-selling album of the week in pure sales, with 18,000 copies sold. It also debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart. The album has moved a total of 700,000 album-equivalent unit as of October 26, 2022, including 32,900 pure album sales, 132,100 song sales, 830 million audio-on-demand streams, and 130 million video-on-demand streams according to HitsDailyDouble.[2] As of November 30, 2022 Curtain Call 2 was the twenty-ninth best-selling album of the year according to Hits,[3] moving a total of 827,000 album-equivalent units by the end of 2022, including 39,000 pure album sales, 142,000 song sales, 995 million audio-on-demand streams, and 151 million video-on-demand streams.[4]
Track listing[]
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Title | Album | Length |
| 1. | "Godzilla" (featuring Juice WRLD) | Music to Be Murdered By | 3:30 |
| 2. | "Lucky You" (featuring Joyner Lucas) | Kamikaze | 4:04 |
| 3. | "Lighters" (Bad Meets Evil featuring Bruno Mars) | Hell: The Sequel | 5:03 |
| 4. | "Gnat" | Music To Be Murdered By - Side B | 3:44 |
| 5. | "Cinderella Man" | Recovery | 4:39 |
| 6. | "Walk on Water" (featuring Beyoncé) | Revival | 5:04 |
| 7. | "Rap God" | The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 6:03 |
| 8. | "Love the Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna) | Recovery | 4:23 |
| 9. | "Won't Back Down" (featuring P!nk) | Recovery | 4:25 |
| 10. | "Higher" | Music to Be Murdered By – Side B | 3:42 |
| 11. | "Berzerk" | The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 3:58 |
| 12. | "Not Afraid" | Recovery | 4:10 |
| 13. | "From the D 2 the LBC" (featuring Snoop Dogg) | Previously unreleased | 3:35 |
| 14. | "Nowhere Fast" (featuring Kehlani) | Revival | 4:24 |
| 15. | "Fall" | Kamikaze | 4:22 |
| 16. | "Phenomenal" | Southpaw: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture | 4:42 |
| 17. | "Fast Lane" (Bad Meets Evil) | Hell: The Sequel | 4:09 |
| 18. | "You're Never Over" | Recovery | 5:05 |
| Total length: | 79:02 | ||
| Disc 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Title | Album | Length |
| 1. | "3 a.m." | Relapse | 5:19 |
| 2. | "Space Bound" | Recovery | 4:38 |
| 3. | "Beautiful" | Relapse | 6:32 |
| 4. | "The Monster" (featuring Rihanna) | The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 4:10 |
| 5. | "Venom" | Kamikaze | 4:29 |
| 6. | "Crack A Bottle" (featuring Dr. Dre and 50 Cent) | Relapse | 4:57 |
| 7. | "Is This Love ('09)" (featuring 50 Cent) | Previously unreleased | 3:32 |
| 8. | "River" (featuring Ed Sheeran) | Revival | 3:41 |
| 9. | "Survival" | The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 4:32 |
| 10. | "Best Friend" (Yelawolf featuring Eminem) | Love Story | 5:14 |
| 11. | "Darkness" | Music to Be Murdered By | 5:37 |
| 12. | "Kings Never Die" (featuring Gwen Stefani) | Southpaw | 4:56 |
| 13. | "No Love" (featuring Lil Wayne) | Recovery | 5:00 |
| 14. | "Headlights" (featuring Nate Ruess) | The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 5:43 |
| 15. | "The King and I" (featuring CeeLo Green) | Elvis | 3:14 |
| 16. | "Farewell" | Music to Be Murdered By | 4:12 |
| Total length: | 75:46 | ||
| Digital edition bonus track | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Title | Original release | Length |
| 17. | "Rap God" (Mr. Cii Remix) | The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 6:15 |
| Total length: | 81:56 | ||
Charts[]
Weekly charts[]
| Chart (2022) | Peak position |
|---|---|
 Australian Albums (ARIA)
|
2 |
 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)
|
11 |
 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)
|
15 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)
|
26 |
 Canadian Albums (Billboard)
|
3 |
 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)
|
13 |
 French Albums (SNEP)
|
16 |
 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)
|
9 |
 Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)
|
38 |
 Irish Albums (OCC)
|
8 |
 Italian Albums (FIMI)
|
55 |
 Japanese Digital Albums (Oricon)
|
26 |
| Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)
|
97 |
 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)
|
5 |
 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)
|
21 |
 Polish Albums (ZPAV)
|
19 |
 Portuguese Albums (AFP)
|
32 |
 Scottish Albums (OCC)
|
3 |
 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)
|
8 |
 UK Albums (OCC)
|
3 |
| UK R&B Albums (OCC)
|
1 |
 US Billboard 200
|
6 |
| US Top Album Sales (Billboard)
|
1 |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)
|
3 |
Year-end charts[]
| Chart (2022) | Position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA)
|
66 |
| US Billboard 200
|
178 |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)
|
59 |
| Chart (2023) | Position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA)
|
33 |
| Canadian Albums (Billboard)
|
19 |
| French Albums (SNEP)
|
103 |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)
|
23 |
| UK Albums (OCC)
|
31 |
| US Billboard 200
|
113 |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)
|
40 |
| Chart (2024) | Position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA)
|
72 |
| Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)
|
18 |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)
|
23 |
| UK Albums (OCC)
|
33 |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)
|
89 |
Certifications[]
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
|---|---|---|
| France (SNEP)
|
Gold | 50,000*** |
| New Zealand (RMNZ)
|
2× Platinum | 30,000*** |
| United Kingdom (BPI)
|
Platinum | 300,000*** |
|
*** Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
References[]
- ↑ Caulfield, Keith (August 15, 2022). "Bad Bunny's 'Un Verano Sin Ti' Back at No. 1 for Eighth Week on Billboard 200 Chart". Billboard.
- ↑ https://eminem.news/cc2-700k.html
- ↑ "The Biggest Albums of 2022". HitsDailyDouble. November 30, 2022.
- ↑ https://eminem.news/hits-daily-double-2022.html