Venom (Eminem song)

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"Venom"
Venom (Eminem song) single cover.jpg
Single by Eminem
from the album Kamikaze
ReleasedSeptember 21, 2018
Recorded2018
Studio Effigy Studios (Detroit, Michigan)
Genre
Length4:29 [1]
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Eminem
13 tracks
  1. "The Ringer"
  2. "Greatest"
  3. "Lucky You" (featuring Joyner Lucas)
  4. "Paul (skit)"
  5. "Normal"
  6. "Em Calls Paul"
  7. "Stepping Stone"
  8. "Not Alike" (featuring Royce Da 5'9")
  9. "Kamikaze"
  10. "Fall" (featuring Justin Vernon)
  11. "Nice Guy" (featuring Jessie Reyez)
  12. "Good Guy" (featuring Jessie Reyez)
  13. "Venom (Music from the Motion Picture)"
Music video
"Venom" on YouTube

"Venom (Music from the Motion Picture)", more commonly known as simply "Venom", is a song by American rapper Eminem, written for the soundtrack of the 2018 film of the same name and featured in his album Kamikaze . It was released as a digital single on September 21, 2018. Following the album's release, the track entered the charts in several countries, hitting the top 50 in the United States, Canada, and Australia. A remix to the song was released on October 5, 2021, two days after the release of Venom: Let There Be Carnage , the film's sequel. [2] The remix was featured on a two-track version of Skylar Grey's "Last One Standing", a song that Eminem was also featured in for the sequel's soundtrack. [3]

Contents

Background

On August 30, 2018, Eminem posted a 15-seconds teaser showing Venom's title with the "E" turning to the "Ǝ", (used as Eminem's emblem). [4] Seven hours later, on August 31, 2018, Eminem's previously unannounced album Kamikaze was released, and "Venom" appeared as its final track. [5] On September 21, 2018, the track was released as a separate digital single on streaming services. [6]

The song includes multiple references to the Venom film and to its title characters Venom and Eddie Brock. [7]

Music video

On October 3, 2018, Eminem teased on his Twitter account that a music video for the song would be released the following Friday. [8] The music video was released on October 5, 2018. [9] As a continuation to his previous "Fall" music video, its first scene shows a bystander finding the previously crushed Revival CD, opening the case to find a completely black disc. Just as it begins to react, he puts it in his bag and gets on a bus. As the song starts, an Eminem symbiote crawls up the man's neck, causing him to start rapping to the song, before he infects the bus driver by throwing him out the door, who then also starts rapping. The Eminem symbiote spreads around, transferring itself to innocent bystanders (and a dog) and making them cause damage to the town while rapping. [10] [11]

During the first part of the video, Eminem, is shown while performing the song inside of a dark room, dressed in all black with only one light shining in the background. In the final scene, after getting possessed by the symbiote, the final victim shown turns into Eminem himself to rap the final chorus, before turning into Sony's Spider-Man Universe/Marvel Comics' character Venom. [12]

Live performances

During the October 15, 2018 episode of the late-night television show Jimmy Kimmel Live! , Eminem performed the song at the 103rd floor of the Empire State Building in New York City. [13] The performance was filmed on October 6, 2018, and it was part of an eight-minute video, directed by James Larese and featuring Mexican-American comedian Guillermo Rodriguez. [14] [15] The music video was shot on a Google Pixel 3.

Track listing

Digital Download
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Venom"
4:29 [1]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [42] Platinum70,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [43] Gold45,000‡
France (SNEP) [44] Gold100,000‡
Germany (BVMI) [45] Gold200,000‡
Italy (FIMI) [46] Gold25,000‡
Poland (ZPAV) [47] Platinum20,000‡
Portugal (AFP) [48] Gold5,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [49] Platinum600,000‡
United States (RIAA) [50] 2× Platinum2,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
VariousSeptember 21, 2018 Digital download [1]
ItalyOctober 19, 2019 Contemporary hit radio Universal [51]

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