Eminem has made very good albums starting in 1996 with Infinite after Infinite came the Slim Shady EP in 1997 and Slim Shady LP in 1999. The Slim Shady EP was not a studio album, so that made the Slim Shady LP his second studio album. The next album was called Marshall Mathers LP and it came out in 2001 followed by The Eminem Show in 2002. The Eminem Show was the best-selling album in 2002 and was nominated for Album of the Year in 2003 at the Grammys. Encore came out in 2004, exactly eight years after Infinite came out. It was nominated for three Grammys. Curtain Call came out in 2005. It had all of Eminem’s top songs on it. Relapse came out in 2009, followed by Recovery in 2010. Recovery originally was supposed to be a sequel to Relapse but Eminem decided to make it something new and different.