Eminem Breaks Sales Record With The Marshall Mathers LP - MUsic Calendar History - Event of The Day

 

2000 Eminem's second major-label album, The Marshall Mathers LP, becomes the fastest-selling rap album ever when it sells 1.76 million copies in its debut week. Read the full story   More Events:   1989 Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) appears on a BritishTV show called Hypotheticals, where  he addresses the fatwa issued against the author Salman Rushdie. Islam seems to support the fatwa - when asked if he would attend a  protest where a Rushdie effigy is burned, he replies, "I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing."   1964 The Beatles hit #1 in America with "Love Me Do," a song John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote as teenagers.   1997 Yanni becomes the first Western artist in modern times to perform at the Forbidden City in Beijing. Despite strict regulations (including  a 40-decibel sound limit), the show is a success as the Chinese welcome the Greek musician.   See More Events Click here for the previous post