Curtain Call: The Hits is the first greatest hits album by the American rapper Eminem. It was released on December 6, 2005, under Shady Records, Goliath Artists, Aftermath Entertainment, WEB Entertainment, and Interscope Records. The album collects Eminem's most popular singles, as well as three new songs: "Fack", "When I'm Gone", and "Shake That" featuring Nate Dogg. A live version of "Stan" performed with English singer-songwriter Elton John at the 43rd Grammy Awards is also included as a bonus track.
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 number 4.
In August 2017, the album was declared the longest-charting rap LP in the history of the Billboard 200. In August 2026, it became the first rap album in history to spend 800 weeks on the chart.
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, unlike on Encore, where the word "ass" was replaced with "thing".
Track listing
Notes signifies an additional producer. signifies a co-producer. Clean version only includes 15 tracks with both "Intro" and "Fack" removed.
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 +Weekly chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2005–2006) Peakposition Australian Hip-Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)1Greek Albums (IFPI) 1Japanese Albums (Oricon)3South African Albums (RISA) 3Taiwanese Albums (Five Music) 1
+2013 weekly chart performance for Curtain Call: The HitsChart (2013)Peakposition +2017 weekly chart performance for Curtain Call: The HitsChart (2017)Peakposition Latvian Albums (LaIPA) 98
+Weekly chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2024) Peakposition
Year-end charts +2005 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2005) PositionAustralian Albums (ARIA) 66Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 12Danish Albums (Hitlisten) 21Irish Albums (IRMA) 7Italian Albums (FIMI) 78New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) 7Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) 80UK Albums (OCC)9Worldwide Albums (IFPI) 8 +2006 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2006) PositionAustralian Albums (ARIA) 24Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 2Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) 34Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) 73Danish Albums (Hitlisten) 41Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) 69European Hot 100 Albums (Billboard) 15German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 31 Greek Foreign Albums (IFPI) 38Italian Albums (FIMI) 65Japanese Albums (Oricon) 32New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) 16Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) 84Swedish Albums & Compilations (Sverigetopplistan) 100Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) 23UK Albums (OCC) 89US Billboard 200 6US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 9 +2007 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2007) PositionAustralian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 32 +2009 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2009) PositionAustralian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 35 +2010 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2010) PositionAustralian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 23 UK Albums (OCC) 136 US Catalog Albums (Billboard) 35 +2011 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2011) PositionAustralian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 19 UK Albums (OCC) 119 US Billboard 200 145 US Catalog Albums (Billboard) 9 +2012 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2012) PositionAustralian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 17 UK Albums (OCC) 158 US Catalog Albums (Billboard) 23
+2013 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2013) PositionAustralian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 8 UK Albums (OCC) 105 US Catalog Albums (Billboard) 22 +2014 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2014) PositionAustralian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 1 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) 99 +2015 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2015) PositionAustralian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 20 Danish Albums (Hitlisten) 46 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) 62 UK Albums (OCC) 88 US Billboard 200 107 +2016 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2016) Position Canadian Albums (Billboard) 43 Danish Albums (Hitlisten) 35 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) 54 UK Albums (OCC) 64 US Billboard 200 110 +2017 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2017) PositionAustralian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 23 Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Flanders) 48 Canadian Albums (Billboard) 16 Danish Albums (Hitlisten) 25 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) 58 UK Albums (OCC) 34 US Billboard 200 76 US Catalog Albums (Billboard) 7 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 46 +2018 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2018) Position Australian Albums (ARIA) 25 Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Flanders) 26 Canadian Albums (Billboard) 22 Danish Albums (Hitlisten) 33 Irish Albums (IRMA) 25 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) 78 UK Albums (OCC) 29 US Billboard 200 59 US Catalog Albums (Billboard) 1 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 34 +2019 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2019) Position Australian Albums (ARIA) 24Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 7 Canadian Albums (Billboard) 27 Irish Albums (IRMA) 34 UK Albums (OCC) 31 US Billboard 200 66 US Catalog Albums (Billboard) 5 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 34 +2020 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2020) Position Australian Albums (ARIA) 41Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 8 Canadian Albums (Billboard) 46 Irish Albums (IRMA) 25 UK Albums (OCC) 28 US Billboard 200 170 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 90 +2021 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2021) Position Australian Albums (ARIA) 25 Canadian Albums (Billboard) 31 Irish Albums (IRMA) 20 UK Albums (OCC) 19 US Billboard 200 48 US Catalog Albums (Billboard) 4 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 22 +2022 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2022) Position Australian Albums (ARIA) 9 Canadian Albums (Billboard) 20 UK Albums (OCC) 6 US Billboard 200 45 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 22 +2023 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2023) Position Australian Albums (ARIA) 19 Canadian Albums (Billboard) 17 UK Albums (OCC) 7 US Billboard 200 36 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 15 +2024 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2024) Position Australian Albums (ARIA) 23 Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) 4 Canadian Albums (Billboard) 16 UK Albums (OCC) 13 US Billboard 200 37 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 7 +2025 year-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2025) Position Australian Albums (ARIA) 41 Canadian Albums (Billboard) 27 UK Albums (OCC) 25 US Billboard 200 50 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 15
Decade-end charts +2000s decade-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2000–2009) PositionUK Albums (OCC) 89 US Billboard 200 Digit page 168 on the PDF archive. 161 +2010s decade-end chart performance for Curtain Call: The Hits Chart (2010–2019) Position UK Albums (OCC) 51
Certifications
See also List of best-selling albums in Australia List of best-selling albums of the 21st century
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