The Eminem Show
by Eminem
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Eminem bestography
The Eminem Show is ranked 2nd best out of 18 albums by Eminem on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Eminem is The Marshall Mathers LP which is ranked number 331 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,035.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Eminem Show track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Eminem Show rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Liedzeit | Top 82 Music Albums of the 2000s | 26/82 | 14 |
| 2026 | OFarrio | Top 25 Music Albums of 2002 | 15/25 | 2 |
| 2026 | Rivera | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 84/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List Zone 32 America Usa | 39/100 | - |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 32 Music Albums of 2002 | 9/32 | 4 |
| 2026 |  neilgee | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 24/100 | 71 |
| 2026 | Foxforce5 | Top 21 Music Albums of 2002 | 1/21 | 5 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 2002 | 3/100 | - |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 54 Music Albums of 2002 | 40/54 | 1 |
| 2026 |  sszwalbenest | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 93/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 440 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,491 | |||
The Eminem Show collection
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The Eminem Show ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 4 days ago | pharoahstune | 251 | 80/100 |
| ! | 10/05/2026 18:16 | Siromynian | 1,786 | 74/100 |
| ! | 07/31/2026 14:04 | Scrabbler | 292 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.9/100, a mean average of 73.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.3.
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The Eminem Show forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 10/05/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5456): By AMEIER BestEverAlbums 10/02/2026 08:18 in Monthly overall chart movements - September 2026 neilgee 09/30/2026 16:52 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)The Eminem Show comments
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9999 TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/22/2013 22:38 | #86581 | TOP COMMENT
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Intimate, not whiny. Emotional, not overacted. Confident, not self-indulgent. Original, not recycled. Telling, not yelling. That's why this album is so great and the ones that came after it aren't. (Edited)
Definitely more mature than his previous albums but still with a bit of his old sense of humor sprinkled in throughout. Unfortunately this was the last truly great album for him. (Edited)
The Eminem Show is Eminem's best album. It's more mature and tackles micro and macro themes throughout.
Government, Bush, and our right to free speech. His relationship with his mother. His place as a father. His affect on his listeners. He explores more vulnerable parts of himself in a serious way rather than deflecting it all with humor and goofy savage imagery as on the Marshall Mathers LP
Without Me was added at the very end to lighten the mood and give the album a surefire hit. Even the record companies knew this was a drastic change in tone.
Apart from the single Without Me, Square Dance (another excellent lighthearted track) is the only other silly tune.
This alone has made Eminem Show age much better than Marshall Mathers LP which used to be considered his best work.
I used to think that the Marshall Mathers LP was his best, but once this one clicked for me, I was sold. Every song is sheer, unadulterated brilliance. From the impassioned yet tongue-in-cheek "White America" to the catchy and vaguely cute "My Dad's Gone Crazy," Eminem proves himself capable of topping the MMLP, which just about everybody believed was untoppable.
Marshall's most cohesive project. Has some of his best rapping in terms of technicality. The way he ties together such diverse topics on this joint is unreal.
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