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Apparently before the release of The Eminem Show, Eminem was trying to think of a title for the CD. He was going to use the regular suffix that he used on all of the other CDs: LP/EP, but decided that it would get bland after awhile. So he instead put the word "show" into it.

Interscope decided to release the album early on May 28 when pirated copies of the tracks began to pop up on popular peer-to-peerGenerally, a peer-to-peer (or P2P computer network is any network that does not rely on dedicated servers for communication but instead mostly uses direct connections between clients (peers). A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients file sharingFile sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. Usually file sharing follows the peer-to-peer (P2P) model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers networks. In the US however, many stores actually began selling it early, on Sunday, May 26May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). There are 219 days remaining before the end of the year. Events 1328 William of Ockham secretly leaves Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII. 1538 Geneva throws out Jo.

This album features Eminem's usual use of satireSatire is a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject (individuals, organizations, states) often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. In Celtic societies, it was thought a bard's satire could have phys, crude humor, and controversy, though on a somewhat lighter scale. Unlike the previous The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000, The Eminem Show's release came off without protest.

The Eminem Show was the best-selling album of 2002, with over 8 million copies by year end.