"Till I Collapse" is a song by American rapper

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featuring fellow American rapper

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, released from his fourth studio album '' The Eminem Show'' (2002). Despite never being released as a single, the song has managed to chart numerous times worldwide and is the second most streamed non-single of all time on

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as of March 2025.

Background

Although it has never been released as a single, it has charted on a few occasions when other Eminem albums have been released. In 2012, it was certified double-platinum by the

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for selling 2,000,000 copies in the United States. This was followed by quintuple-platinum in 2018 and octuple-platinum in 2022. The song interpolates the 1977 song "

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" by British rock band

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; as a result,

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is credited as a songwriter.

Reception and legacy

In a retrospective review, David Drake of ''Complex'' highlighted "'Till I Collapse" as demonstrating Eminem's musical evolution on ''The Eminem Show'', noting how the "increasingly dramatic production choices" on songs like "'Till I Collapse" show him "abandoning some of the more irreverent cartoonishness in favor of capital-I Importance". Drake commended "Nate Dogg’s urgent hook and some of the most elaborate-yet-purposeful rapping of Eminem’s career" as saving "what should have been a leaden monster, as the bass-heavy funk of the Bass Brothers and Dr. Dre was dropping away in favor of arena-ready epics".

In popular culture

When Eminem's single "

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" (also featuring Nate Dogg) was released in 2006, several Eminem songs re-charted that same week, including "Till I Collapse". It charted in the UK at number 192 on April 15, 2006. In 2008, it appeared in HBO's series ''De La Hoya/Pacquiao 24/7''. In 2009, it was used in an advertisement for the game '' Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2''. It raised digital download sales of the song worldwide considerably, but in Britain the song sold so many copies after the ad aired that it re-charted that week (November 21, 2009) at number 73, a new peak. Major League Baseball pitcher Jesse Litsch used the song as his entrance music during the

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season. In 2023, the song was used for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III's multiplayer trailer. Major League Baseball pitcher Justin Verlander uses the song as his entrance music.

Charts

Certifications

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References

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