Its usually a rule in the music world where once albums start getting leaked, artists tend to push up the release date by atleast a week. Eminem however, has gone and change the law, with his forthcoming album Recovery still set to release on June 22nd.

A representative for Eminem confirmed the unchanged date according to XXLMag.com, despite the album being available illegally. No representative at Interscope Records were seemingly available on the subject at the time.

Recovery arrived online and via blogs earlier this week, following the lead single “Not Afraid” and the Pink-assisted “Won’t Back Down”. The first video from the project, “Not Afraid,” premiered Sunday and departs from the rapper’s usual satirical efforts.

Last month, Eminem revealed the tracklisting for Recovery, and the rapper chose to work with Lil Wayne, Pink, and Rihanna for the project. In the past, he’s kept his circle of collaborators short, mostly limited to the Shady/Aftermath camp, including Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. For this collection, however, Eminem chose to work with a bevy of new contributors, such as producers Just Blaze, Jim Johnson, and DJ Khalil.

Just Blaze commented in April regards to Eminems latest music material, saying: “A lot of good music is being made [by Eminem], he’s really back spitting. The wordplay is crazy, the metaphors are crazy. He’s really back on his game. He had his ups, he had his downs, he’s back way, way, way up. This is definitely going to be up there with the best of his albums, for sure, for sure. The fact that he’s branched out working with a lot of different people now, collaborating in a lot of different ways that he never has before, I think he’s going to surprise a lot of people.”

**UPDATE** It seems the law hasn’t changed, and that Eminem has in fact pushed the date up…by one day. Fans will now anticipate the albums release on the 21st. whoo, one day.

Already heard the album? Any good? Anxious to get it?