Recovery by Eminem

Recovery, Eminem's seventh studio album, dropped on June 18, 2010, a year after Relapse had ended a hiatus brought on partly by prescription drug addiction and the death of his friend Proof. The title is the point: this is a man taking stock, more introspective and more exposed, working through anxiety and the changes he'd made. Unlike his earlier records, most of the beats came from outside the camp, Alex da Kid, Just Blaze, Boi-1da, Jim Jonsin and Havoc among them, next to regulars Dr. Dre, DJ Khalil, Emile and Mr. Porter, with Rihanna, Pink, Lil Wayne and Slaughterhouse dropping in.

It paid off. Recovery opened at number one on the Billboard 200 with 741,000 copies in its first week, topped charts in 16 other countries and finished 2010 as the world's best-selling album. "Not Afraid" and "Love the Way You Lie" both went to number one on the Hot 100, critics heard a step up from Relapse, and it drew an Album of the Year nomination at the 2011 Grammys.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.