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Eminem's 'Encore' Leaks Onto The Web

added 04 November 2004 at 12.06

Record company bosses at Eminem's label Interscope have brought forward the release of the star's new album 'Encore' to counter the damage sustained from early internet pirate copies.

Eminem's new album 'Encore' will now be released on Friday November 12 instead of Monday November 15 to limit internet piracy and bootlegging. The hip-hop star's record label Interscope has blaimed the web leak on "rabid demand" for the follow-up to 2002's 'The Eminem Show'.

"This is something we have been anticipating," Steve Berman, Interscope's head of sales and marketing explained "Once we had all of our pieces together we started a discussion as to whether 'Encore' should come early. We knew there would be a tremendous demand for this album. On our end, we were ready. We just had to press the button on the date."

As previously reported, details of Eminem's new album ‘Encore’ leaked out on the internet weeks ago despite attempts to keep the tracklisting secret.

The full running order of the songs is as follows:

1. ‘Curtains Up’ (Encore version)
2. ‘Evil Deeds’
3. ‘Never Enough’
4. ‘Yellow Brick Road’
5. ‘Like Toy Soldiers’
6. ‘Mosh’
7. ‘Puke’
8. ‘My 1st Single’
9. ‘Paul’
10. ‘Rain Man’
11. ‘Big Weenie’
12. ‘Em Calls Paul’
13. ‘Just Lose It’
14. ‘Ass Like That’
15. ‘Spend Some Time’
16. ‘Mockingbird’
17. ‘Crazy In Love’
18. ‘One Shot 2 Shot’
19. ‘Final Thought’
20. ‘Encore/Curtains Down’

Eminem's single ‘Just Lose It’ is out now.

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