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"When I'm Gone" is a song by American rapper Eminem from his first greatest hits albumCurtain Call: The Hits ().

It was released on December 6, , the same day as the album was released, as the lead single.

"When I'm Gone" received mixed to negative reviews from music critics. The song charted at number eight on the U.S. BillboardHot ,^[1] number 22 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart,^[1] number four on the UK Singles Chart^[2] and one on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, the latter being the only country where it peaked at number one.^[3]

Background

“When I’m Gone” was written in and released in by Shady Records, on the album Curtain Call: The Hits.

It was thought at the time that this album would mark the beginning of an extended musical hiatus for Eminem, who had said "I'm at a point in my life right now where I feel like I don't know where my career is goingThis is the reason that we cal