'Foolish' ranks #8 on the radio list with more than 333,000 spins.Īlecia Moore was tickled pink - er, tickled as Pink - in 2002.

songstress moved more than 3 million copies of the album, thanks to the massive airplay of 'Foolish' and its remix 'Unfoolish,' which featured the Notorious B.I.G. Propelled by the singles 'Complicated' (#7 with 352,000 spins), 'Sk8er Boi' and 'I'm With You' - not to mention her trend-setting tie-'n'-tank-top obsession - the Canadian rocker sold more than 4.1 million albums.Īshanti took the #7 position with her eponymous April release. Lavigne's Let Go has the honor of being the top-selling debut as well as the best-selling album by a woman in 2002. Released two month after Eminem's opus, Nelly's follow-up to 2000's Country Grammar sold more than 4.9 million copies.ĭebutantes Avril Lavigne and Ashanti scored big with their first LPs. Nelly's Nellyville lagged behind The Eminem Show by nearly 3 million copies, despite a tremendous number of radio spins for 'Dilemma' and 'Hot in Herre' - 315,076 and 312,411, respectively, according to Neilsen Broadcast Data Systems, which ranked the singles at #9 and #10 on its most-played list. The second-most popular album of 2002 also comes from a rapper who put his name in the title of his album. The film's $54.4 million in receipts gave it the second-largest opening for an R-rated picture of all time and made it the highest debut for a first-time lead actor (see ''8 Mile' Goes The Distance With Record-Breaking Opening Weekend').Īnd don't expect Em to hide in his closet in 2003, now that it's all cleaned out - he's assisting on new albums by rappers 50 Cent and Obie Trice, plus he promises a second release from his D12 crew by year's end. '8 Mile' was tops at the box office during its opening November weekend.

The soundtrack to '8 Mile,' the semi-autobiographical film starring Eminem as a Detroit rapper, is also among the year's top sellers, likely due to Em's adrenaline-laced first single, 'Lose Yourself.' The album placed fifth on the list of top sellers, with scans of more than 3.4 million. Since its release in May, when it began a five-week run at #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Em's follow-up to 2000's The Marshall Mathers LP racked up a whopping 7,607,925 copies sold in stores participating in SoundScan's monitoring system. With help from the singles 'Cleanin Out My Closet' and 'Without Me,' the album stands as the best-selling LP of last year, according to SoundScan. When Eminem was choosing a title for his third major-label album, one can only wonder whether he realized The Eminem Show would make for an appropriate summation of 2002.

Nickelback album sales to date