One week before Lady GaGa receives her opening week numbers for her new album ‘ARTPOP’ , today has seen Eminem welcome his the digits generated by his latest offering ‘Marshall Mathers LP 2.’

Why the folk over at Interscope have cause to celebrate tonight?

Find out below…

Opening ‘Billboard 200’ Chart Position: #1

First Week Sales Figure: 779,577.

That’s right, in the space of one week, the polarising project has shifted a record breaking 779,577 units in the US alone, becoming the second highest debut number to be achieved in 2013- second only to the first instalment of Justin Timberlake‘s ‘The 20/20 Experience.‘

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