Eminem’s Till I Collapse reached a new all-time peak on Billboard’s Rap Digital Song Sales chart this week. The 2002 collaboration with Nate Dogg, first released on The Eminem Show, returned to the chart at No. 7, the highest position of its entire chart life, in its 185th week on the list. An Eminem Till I Collapse chart peak arriving more than two decades after release is a catalogue story, not a comeback single, and the same chart week tells it twice.
A new peak in week 185
Rap Digital Song Sales ranks the best selling rap tracks through digital stores in the United States, and it is a short list, only ten places. Till I Collapse reappears at No. 7 this frame and sets its personal best in the process, 185 weeks into its tenure. Songs are not supposed to peak in year twenty four. Catalogue records usually settle into a steady band and stay there, so a fresh high this deep into a chart life means a new wave of buyers found the record, or an old audience decided to own it again.
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The song has always lived a second life beyond its album. Built on a militaristic drum march and a Nate Dogg hook, it became a staple of training playlists and pregame routines, the kind of placement that never shows up in a release week campaign but compounds for decades. Digital sales are the purest measure of that intent. Nobody buys a download by accident in 2026, every sale on this chart is a deliberate purchase, and Till I Collapse just posted its best deliberate purchase week ever on this ranking.
Lose Yourself climbs beside it
Eminem holds two of the ten places this week. Lose Yourself, the Academy Award winning single from 8 Mile, lifts from No. 3 to No. 2 on Rap Digital Song Sales, blocked from the top only by T.I.’s Let ‘Em Know, which holds steady at No. 1. The near miss is remarkable on its own terms. Lose Yourself has now spent 535 weeks on this chart, the longest run of Eminem’s career and one of the longest in the chart’s history, and it counts among his 19 No. 1 hits on the ranking, even though it did not reach that summit until last December, almost fifteen years after the chart run began in January 2010.
On the broader R and B and Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales chart, Lose Yourself also returns to the top ten, pushing from No. 11 to No. 7 this frame. Two Eminem catalogue singles sitting inside the top ten of the rap sales ranking at once, one at a new peak and one a single place from No. 1, is the kind of week most active artists would take as a headline, and neither song is being promoted.
The global catalogue keeps moving too
The pattern repeats on Billboard’s worldwide lists. Without Me and Love the Way You Lie, his collaboration with Rihanna, both appear this week on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, which ranks consumption everywhere except the United States. Without Me improves from No. 172 to No. 170, while Love the Way You Lie holds its own place on the same ranking. Four Eminem catalogue titles charting across four rankings in a single week, with no new album in the market, is the streaming and sales era working exactly as it does for the very top tier of catalogue artists.
Streaming tells the same story in larger numbers. On Spotify’s November 2026 all-time list, Without Me stands at No. 48 with about 3.28 billion streams and Lose Yourself at No. 76 with about 3.06 billion. Sales peaks and streaming totals are different economies, but they point at the same fact, the Eminem catalogue is not nostalgia product, it is current listening.
Why these records keep selling
Part of the answer is utility. Till I Collapse and Lose Yourself are functional songs, built for effort, and functional songs get re-bought, re-saved and re-played by every new cohort that finds them. Part of it is craft. Nate Dogg’s hook on Till I Collapse is one of the most recognisable choruses of its era, and Lose Yourself is structured like a closing argument, three verses rising to the most quoted hook in rap history.
There is also a simpler truth. Billboard’s sales charts in the streaming era have become a catalogue barometer, a place where the permanent repertoire shows its hand week after week. This week that barometer reads clearly. Eminem’s Till I Collapse chart peak at No. 7, 185 weeks in, and Lose Yourself at No. 2 in week 535 say the permanent repertoire is still appreciating, and the ceiling for a twenty four year old rap record has not been found yet.
