Curtain Call: The Hits

Curtain Call: The Hits is the first greatest hits album by American rapper Eminem. It was released on December 6, 2005, under Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, and Interscope Records. The album collects Eminem's most popular singles, as well as four new songs, including a live version of "Stan", featuring English singer-songwriter Elton John performed at the 43rd Grammy Awards, plus the songs "Fack", "When I'm Gone" and "Shake That" featuring Nate Dogg.
The album was certified Diamond in the United States on March 8, 2022 and quintuple platinum in New Zealand. It reached number one on several charts, including the US Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart.
On July 11, 2022, Eminem announced a sequel to the album titled Curtain Call 2, which would contain material from his later work. It was released on August 5, 2022.
Chart performance
Curtain Call: The Hits debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and Billboard 200, after two sales days, in a similar fashion to Eminem's previous album Encore. The album racked up first-week sales of nearly 441,000 and with close to 324,000 scans the second week for a two-week stay at number one. It slipped from number one to number four in its third week but surged 33 percent to finish with sales close to 430,000. The disc scored nearly 1.2 million scans in its first three weeks of release. It also gave Eminem his fifth straight number 1 album in the US and UK including the 8 Mile soundtrack. , the record had sold 3,782,000 copies in the United States. Curtain Call was later certified Diamond by the RIAA in the United States.
The album's two singles, "When I'm Gone" and "Shake That", peaked at numbers 8 and 6 respectively in the US Billboard Hot 100. Only "When I'm Gone" qualified for the charts in the UK, where it peaked at #4.
In August 2017, the album was declared the longest-running rap LP in the history of the Billboard 200.
Clean version
A clean version of the album is also available. It has 15 tracks with both "Intro" and "FACK" removed (due to the extreme sexual nature of the latter, and the former's connection to the song) and "My Name Is" put to track one. The tracks appear exactly how they appeared on the clean versions of their respective albums except for the song "Guilty Conscience", which uses the radio edit. Certain profanities remain on several tracks, as words including "shit", "bitch", and "ass" were not censored on The Slim Shady LP or The Marshall Mathers LP. However, on "Just Lose It", the clean version leaves "ass" uncensored, while on the album Encore, the word "ass" was replaced with "thing".
Track listing
Notes
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Personnel
Jeff Bass – bass, guitar, keyboard
Karin Catt – photography
Larry Chatman – project coordinator
Lindsay Collins – studio coordinator
Tommy Coster – keyboard
DJ Head – drum programming
Dr. Dre – producer, mixing
Eminem – producer, executive producer, drum programming, mixing
The 45 King & Louie – producer
Marti Frederiksen – engineer
Brian "Big Bass" Gardener – mastering
Scott Hays – assistant engineer
Richard "Segal" Herredia – engineer
Mauricio Iragorri – engineer
Ben Jost – assistant engineer
Rouble Kapoor – assistant engineer
Steven King – bass, guitar, engineer, mixing
Anthony Mandler – photography
Jonathan Mannion – photography
Joe Perry – guitar solo on "Sing for the Moment"
Kirdis Postelle – project coordinator
Luis Resto – keyboard, programming, producer
Tom Rounds – assistant engineer
Les Scurry – production coordination
Mike Sroka – assistant engineer
Urban Kris – assistant engineer
Nitin Vadukul – photography
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
Certifications
See also
List of best-selling albums in Australia
References
External links
Eminem compilation albums
2005 greatest hits albums
Albums produced by Dr. Dre
Albums produced by Eminem
Aftermath Entertainment compilation albums
Aftermath Entertainment albums
Shady Records compilation albums