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Lose Yourself

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"Lose Yourself"

Single by Eminem
from the album 8 Mile Soundtrack
Released	2002
Format	CD
Genre	Rap
Length	5:20
Label	Shady/Aftermath/Interscope
Producer(s)	Eminem
Chart positions
#1 (UK) #1 (U.S.) #1 (Canada) #1 (Australia) #1 (Portugal) #1 (Sweden) #1 (Ireland) #1 (Taiwan) #1 (New Zealand) #1 (Netherlands) #1 (Norway) #1 (Greece) #1 (Austria) #1 (Belgium) #1 (Finland) #1 (Switzerland) #1 (Italy) #1 (Denmark) #1 (Chile) #2 (Germany) #3 (France)
Eminem singles chronology
"Cleanin' Out My Closet" (2002)	"Lose Yourself" (2002)	"Sing for the Moment" (2003)

"Lose Yourself" is a song by the rapper Eminem, released in 2002. At this time, he had recently made his debut as an actor in the film 8 Mile, a film based on his tough life growing up and entering the rap game. The song was taken from the film's soundtrack (8 Mile Soundtrack), an album which had achieved significant success together with the release of this single. The song went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Song, although Eminem was not present at the award ceremony. The song is also one of the only songs from the 21st century to be listed in the 2004 List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (ranked number 166).

The single had reached number one in many countries, including the United States (it was his first and only number-one single [to date] on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart), the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand among others..

The song's lyrics are explicitly about Eminem's character from 8 Mile, B. Rabbit, with the first verse summing up much of the plot of the movie and the following verses describing scenes not found in the film, presumably occurring to Rabbit after the events of 8 Mile.

"Weird Al" Yankovic made a parody of the song by the name of "Couch Potato", on his 2003 album Poodle Hat. Eminem had given him permission to parody the song, but not to produce a music video for the parody. Eminem's hangups about "Couch Potato" were the subject of another "Lose Yourself" parody done by Tony Goldmark entitled "Fool Yourself".

"Lose Yourself" was later released on Eminem's greatest hits album, Curtain Call, in 2005.

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