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With a combined six Diamond awards — three for albums and three for singles — Eminem has firmly secured a place as one of the biggest-selling acts in music history, with the more than 73 million new certifications pushing his career RIAA Award total to 227.5 million; that number includes 166 million single ...
Eminem's singles "Lose Yourself", "Not Afraid" and "Love The Way You Lie" all charted at No. 1 and have been certified diamond or higher by the RIAA.
Post Malone has broken the record for the most RIAA diamond-certified singles from any artist, with three newly certified records.
Eminem's combined six RIAA Diamond awards – three albums and three singles –cement his place as one of the most accomplished artists in history.
At the time, Posty joined fellow rappers Juicy J, T.I., OutKast, Tupac Shakur and Drake who have also reached diamond status for either features on a song, their own albums or a song they released during their careers.
"Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus
"Old Town Road" is the fastest song in history to be certified diamond.
The anticipation forGet Rich Or Die Tryin''s release was so high that Interscope Records rushed it out five days before its scheduled Feb. 11 date. It sold over 800K copies in its first week and has since been certified Diamond by the RIAA.
Garth Brooks has received seven Diamond awards for seven individual albums from the RIAA for selling over ten million units each, a feat only he can claim, and is the No.
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" were both certified diamond on August 29, 2022, nearly 40 years after their release.
As well as being the star's most successful song with 2.12 million combined sales (including 106 million streams), Lose Yourself was also the first rap track to ever win an Oscar for Best Original Song.
Along the way, the man from 8 Mile has earned 10 Billboard 200 No. 1s, five Hot 100 No. 1s, countless awards, and respect from just about everyone in hip-hop. See below for Eminem's top Hot 100 hits, counting down to his biggest hit ever.
Jay-Z has earned his first ever diamond certification. The RIAA noted on Monday (June 12), that his 2011 collaboration with Kanye West, "N-ggas In Paris" achieved 10x platinum status, qualifying it for a diamond plaque with 10,000,000 units sold.
However, West has just reached another milestone in his career, as he has just earned his first-ever RIAA certified Diamond record. Earlier this week, it was announced that the Chicago hip-hop legend has earned his first certified Diamond single in his 2007 single “Stronger” from his third studio album, Graduation.
"Bodak Yellow" made Cardi B the first female rapper to have a song certified Diamond by the RIAA, a record which she has since extended to three Diamond-certified songs.
Such artists as Jay Z, Kanye West, Drake, and Dr. Dre, while having many other accolades imaginable, are yet to reach this milestone in their careers.
The album became the first rap album to go diamond, and helped transform hip hop music into a global phenomenon. Since then, only a handful of rappers have managed to hit diamond status: What is this? MC Hammer: You have people who are really good at rapping and they call themselves a lyricist.
Since 1990, only eight rap releases have earned the coveted honor. So below, we lined up all the said releases to score the award that trumps the all-platinum talk. [Another side note: Was Kanye's recent interpolation of Nelly's Country Grammy album on The Life of Pablo a reason for the recent surge in album sales?
Travis Scott and Kendrick Lamar's Goosebumps has surpassed the 10 million units sold mark, making it both of the artists' first diamond-certified single. Kendrick Lamar's highest-selling solo single is 'Humble' from his Damn album, which sold 3.02M units. “..
March 9, 2011: By 2011, Eminem had proven his historical dominance 10 times over. On this day, in 2011, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) revealed that two of Em's albums had gone diamond.
This week marked the one-week anniversary since Eminem became the first and only rapper to earn two diamond-certified albums. On March 8th, 2022, the RIAA certified two of his albums as double platinum, as XXL points out.
“Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, has become the highest certified song ever by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), reaching 14-times platinum status in the U.S. — accumulating 14 million in equivalent song units.
Butter by BTS is the video that has garnered the fastest 1 million views on YouTube.
American popstar Miley Cyrus has beaten the record made jointly by Harry Styles' 'As It Was' and Justin Bieber and The Kid LAROI's 'Stay' by becoming the fastest ever artist to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify with her hit 'Flowers'.