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Eminem #2 on Gracenote... Before Release

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the worth-taking-note dept.

asavage writes "According to this article on news.com last week, Eminem's "The Eminem Show," which was yet to be released, cracked the chart at No. 2. This is the first time an unreleased CD has been number 2 on this list of CD's played in computers." I've pre-ordered my copy and am looking forward to hearing it. But its pretty amazing that Gracenote registers a pirated CD #2 without the benefit of it being for sale yet. Thank god they shut down napster and stopped piracy.

10 of 463 comments (clear)

  1. Gracenote ---- Bah! by BdosError · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yahoo! is reporting that Gracenote (previously CDDB, an open source project) is planning to sell aggregate usage data to advertisers and such like. Makes me glad I use a freedb-based CD player (CD Max, for the curious).

    --
    Complexity is Easy. Simplicity is Hard.
  2. Re:Mass-produced CDs by BagOBones · · Score: 2, Informative

    As long as you make an Image or a 1:1 copy it will be detected as the same disk.. Its manly determined from track lengths and offsets.

    --
    EA David Gardner -"... but the consumers have proven that actually what they want is fun."
  3. It is available - It was released Sunday by joeflies · · Score: 4, Informative
    Before making too many conclusions, it should be noted that the CD is already available, released on a non-traditional Sunday. So part of that stat is mixed with legit sales.

    "Thus, "The Eminem Show," originally slated for a June 4 release, hit stores Sunday -- an unusual step, as albums are typically released on Tuesdays. That move came after it was earlier announced that the release date would be pushed up to today -- roughly two weeks after the album's unsanctioned Internet debut."

    story Here

  4. You CAN buy it today by Geekboy(Wizard) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was in the mall to pick up some old skool music (Nerf Herder rules!!!), and I saw it on the shelves. I also saw the note that it won't be released until June, but whatever dude.

  5. I BOUGHT A COPY AT FYE'S ON THE 24th! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I bought a copy at the Fye Music in Holyoke, MA on the evening of the 24th. When I asked why it was released early, the girl at the counter mumbled something about the Harry Potter DVD and low sales, and that they received a call from the main office to start putting the new Eminem CD's on the shelves.

    I also saw them available in a Fye's in Woodbridge, NJ the next day.

    For some reason, it is only $11.99, compared to the usual ripoff at that store.

  6. Taco's strawman argument by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thank god they shut down napster and stopped piracy.

    The CD-Rs were most likely burned from mp3s downloaded from P2P networks. Besides, 10s of thousands of CDs distributed mostly in urban U.S. cities is hardly comparable to the millions that were downloaded across the globe on napster.

    Besides, Taco, you almost sound like you condone music piracy. Aren't you the one who said "I wish people wouldn't steal"?

    Whoever put my shit on the Internet, I want to meet that motherfucker and beat the shit out of him... - Eminem ( quote)
  7. It is number one now... by stain+ain · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just checked on gracenote's site.
    "The Eminem show" is now on top, number 1, the most-played this week.

  8. Release date pushed up due to piracy. by Slider · · Score: 5, Informative

    The original release date was June 4th, but due to 'rampant piracy' the release was pushed up a week. It was officially released today.

    MTV News Article

    Andrew

  9. Eminen's opinion on this situation... by DigitalHammer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's an interesting article I found at www.nme.com...

    Link (http://www.nme.com/news/101808.htm)

    EMINEM'S PIRATE WAR!

    EMINEM is threatening to "beat the shit" out of fans who have illegally uploaded his music onto the Internet.
    Despite his new album, 'The Eminem Show', being one of the most closely guarded pre-release projects in history, it is now widely available to buy and download illegally weeks ahead of release.

    Despite strict security measures, all 20 tracks from 'The Eminem Show' are available on the Internet, almost a month ahead of the album's June 3 release - meaning his label Interscope could lose millions.

    The rapper said bluntly: "I think that shit is fucking bullshit. Whoever put my shit on the Internet, I want to meet that motherf***er and beat the shit out of him, because I picture this scrawny little dickhead going 'I got Eminem's new CD! I got Eminem's new CD! I'm going to put it on the Internet.' I think that anybody who tries to make excuses for that shit is a fucking bitch."

    Internet downloading of music has concerned labels and artists, but there is an even greater fear about bootlegging - selling copies of the downloaded music to fans who can't wait for the real thing or can't afford it. Copies of 'The Eminem Show'' were being sold openly in New York last week for $5.

    As a result of the leak, the album will now be released on Monday (May 27). For more on this story, see this week's NME, which is out in London now and nationwide tomorrow (May 22).
    ---

    Ouch. Eminen should really take some Prozac or Ritalin before press conferences...he might get better PR...

  10. There's a world outside the US? by chiark · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was officially released in the UK, and probably sizable chunks of the world, on Monday 27th May.

    This ain't piracy, it's the world :-)