MANCHESTER, TN – JUNE 09: Eminem performs on What Stage during day 3 of the 2018 Bonnaroo Arts And Music Festival on June 9, 2018 in Manchester, Tennessee. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for Bonnaroo Arts And Music Festival ) Fueled by his surprise album Kamikaze, Eminem scored the highest album sales of any artist in 2018, according to. The 46-year-old rapper ruled the roost with 755,027 album sales, far ahead of second-place finishers BTS, who sold 603,307 albums off the strength of their back-to-back chart-toppers, Love Yourself: Tear and Love Yourself: Answer. Roughly half of Eminem’s 2018 album sales came from his tenth studio album, Kamikaze, which earned 373,067 sales. It was the fourth-bestselling album of the year, behind The Greatest Showman soundtrack, A Star Is Born soundtrack and Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods. Interestingly, that means nearly 400,000 of Eminem’s 2018 album sales came from his dense back catalog.