Though the 2010s may belong to Susan Boyle and Lady Gaga, the 2000s belonged to Eminem, at least in the United States. The irreverent, newly sober rapper has been named America’s bestselling act of the last 10 years, Britain’s  Guardian newspaper reports today.

In the end, it was a battle between Slim Shady and the Beatles. Though the Fab Four’s greatest hits compilation, One, was the decade’s bestselling record, Eminem had two albums in the top 10 – 2000’s The Marshall Mathers LP at No 4 and 2002’s The Eminem Show at No 5. Between these and his other releases, Eminem has sold about 32.2m albums since Y2K – compared with the mop-tops’ meagre 30m, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The top-selling albums of the decade in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan:

1. The Beatles – 1,11,499,000
2. ‘NSync, No Strings Attached – 11,112,000
3. Norah Jones, Come Away With Me – 10, 546,000
4. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP – 10,204,000
5. Eminem, The Eminem Show – 9,799,000
6. Usher, Confessions – 9,712,000
7. Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory – 9,663,000
8. Creed, Human Clay – 9,491,000
9. Britney Spears, Oops! … I Did It Again – 9,185,000
10. Nelly, Country Grammar – 8,461,000

America’s top-selling digital songs of the decade, according to Nielsen SoundScan:

1. Flo Rida feat. T-Pain – Low, 5,214,000
2. Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis – Just Dance, 4,690,000
3. Jason Mraz, I’m Yours – 4,619,000
4. Timbaland feat. One Republic, Apologize – 4,439,000
5. The Black Eyed Peas, Boom Boom Pow – 4,349,000
6. Soulja Boy Tell’em, Crank That – 4,315,000
7. Lady Gaga, Poker Face – 4,200,000
8. Coldplay, Viva La Vida – 4,140,000
9. Taylor Swift, Love Story – 4,005,000
10. Katy Perry, Hot N Cold – 3,945,000