broadly well-received by the public

I think that is a non-applicable criteria: Nothing can be broadly received by the public today, in the age of the Internet. Back in the day record labels and media companies controlled the distribution channels and what album they decided to push was pushed to entire public via a few distribution channels, from radios to MTV. So the public had no choice but to receive something. They may or may not have liked what they received - in the case of Eminem's early albums, they did.

But we are living in the age of the Internet now. The artists do their own promotion to their followers or a plethora of small labels do their own promotion via various Internet channels. There isnt any case of the public receiving any album all at once anymore. Everything goes out bit by bit, to the following of the artist, and to the users of whatever Internet venue chosen.

And in that regard, Eminem seems to be even bigger than he was before: Over 100 million views from Houdini at Youtube in a month, over 5 million views within 1 day just for the audio of one song like 'Habits' from his new album etc are major numbers in the age of the Internet. And Youtube is just one platform.

And also this - Eminem just dethroned Taylor Swift:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1e4rhmq/eminems_the_death_of_slim_shady_set_to_debut_atop/