4. ED SHEERAN'S ACHIEVEMENT

On the Official Albums Chart dated 16 March 2017, Ed Sheeran's (UK) third studio album, ÷ ("Divide"), debuted at No.1 with 672,000 first-week sales/downloads/streaming equivalent sales to become the third fastest-selling UK album of all time.

Adele's 25 (800,307 first-week copies sold in November 2015) and Oasis' Be Here Now(696,000 copies sold in three days in August 1997) are the only two UK albums with higher first-week sales than ÷.

Sheeran's first-week numbers comprised 62% physical sales, 26% full-album downloads and 12% streaming equivalent sales (amounting to 79,000 album streams – a new record for first-week UK album streams).

÷ sold more copies in its first week than the rest of the UK's Top 500 albums combined.

÷ is Sheeran's third chart-topping studio album, after + (2011) and x (2014). On the chart dated 16 March 2017, with ÷ at No.1, x at No.4 and + at No.5, Sheeran became the sixth act – after Elvis Presley (1957), The George Mitchell Minstrels (1962), Michael Jackson (2009), David Bowie (2016) and Prince (2016) – and only the third living act to post three simultaneous Top 5 albums.

Sheeran also broke Calvin Harris' (UK) previous record for the most Top 10 tracks from one album. With seven new entries on 16 March 2017 adding to his existing Top 10 hits "Shape of You", "Castle on the Hill" and "How Would You Feel (Paean)", Sheeran racked up 10 Top 10s from ÷ – one more than Harris achieved from his album 18 Months (2012).

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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/ed-sheeran-on-hard-drinking-nights-taylor-swift-true-love-w470599

2. Eminem's Achievement

"Rap God" by Eminem (USA) packs 1,560 words into a fast and furious 6 min 4 sec – that's a tongue-twisting average of 4.28 words per second! In one 15-second segment alone, "Slim Shady" spits 97 words (6.46 words per second) at "supersonic speed".

Excluding the 26-second intro (spoken by an unknown vocalist) and an indeterminate number of words rapped by Eminem in the intro's background (likely to be 22, all included in the total of 1,560), "Slim Shady" actually raps 1,460 words in 5 min 38 sec (4.31 words per second) in the verses/choruses of the track.

Rap God" finds Eminem spitting rhymes about Monica Lewinsky, Dale Earnhardt and a host of fellow rappers including 2Pac, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Run-DMC, Dr Dre, Rakim, Pharoahe Monch, Fabolous, Ray J and Heavy D & The Boyz. In all, 43 figures from the world of rap/hip-hop are name-checked/referenced by Eminem.

Taken from The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem's eighth studio album, "Rap God" debuted at Number 5 on the UK's Official Singles Chart on 26 October 2013, and at Number 7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on 2 November 2013, as well as charting in numerous other countries around the world. It was the rapper's seventh Top 10 debut on the Hot 100, eclipsing Lil Wayne (six) for the most Top 10 debuts on the Hot 100 (male).

"Rap God" also helped Eminem set the record for the most simultaneous Top 20 hits on the US Hot 100 as a lead solo artist. "The Monster" (No.3), "Berzerk" (No.15), "Survival" (No.16) and "Rap God" (No.17) were all in the Top 20 on 16 November 2013. Only The Beatles, with six simultaneous Top 20 hits in April-May 1964, can better Eminem's achievement among lead artists. 50 Cent, T-Pain and Lil Wayne have all had four songs in the Top 20 at the same time, but all were featured artists on at least one track.

Eminem performed "Rap God" at the inaugural YouTube Music Awards in New York City, USA, on 3 November 2013.

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