2Pac Released ‘All Eyez On Me’ On This Date In 1996

 

2Pac Released 'All Eyez On Me' On This Date In 1996

All Eyez on Me is the fourth studio album from 2Pac. It was released on February 13, 1996, by Death Row Records and Interscope Records. The album featured the Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles “How Do U Want It” and “California Love”. It featured five singles in all, the most of any of 2Pac’s albums. Moreover, All Eyez on Me (which was the only Death Row Records release to be distributed through PolyGram by way of Island Records) made history as the second double-full-length hip-hop solo studio album released for mass consumption (the first one being IAM’s 1993 Ombre est lumière album). It was issued on two compact discs and four LPs.

All Eyez on Me was the second album by 2Pac to chart at #1 on both the Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albumscharts, selling 566,000 copies in the first week. The album won the 1997 Soul Train R&B/Soul or Rap Album of the Year Award posthumously. Shakur also won the Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist at the 24th Annual American Music Awards. The album was certified Diamond on July 23, 2014, almost eighteen years after Shakur’s death with shipments of 5 million copies (each disc in the double album counted as a separate unit for certification).

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