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.
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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. As of November 2013, 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
^[a] signifies an additional producer.
^[b] signifies a co-producer.
Clean version only includes 15 tracks with both "Intro" and "Fack" removed.