16 in Music History: 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' is certified Diamond. History Highlight: Today in 2021, Lauryn Hill's 1998 album The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill was certified Diamond for 10 million sales in America, making her the first female hip-hop artist to earn that certification.
On Feb. 16, 2021, more than 20 years after its release, Lauryn Hill's landmark album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was certified diamond. The RIAA shared the news, declaring it had sold 10 million copies since its 1998 release.
Garth Brooks is the artist with the most diamond albums.
Others with three or more albums that have reached diamond status include The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Shania Twain and the Eagles. The RIAA awards diamond plaques to albums and singles that reach 10 times platinum status.
In her entire career, Lauryn won eight Grammy Awards. To this day, no other female rapper has been able to break her record. The month of February is Black History Month. The Grammy Awards 2023 are also around the corner.
Beyoncé is the most Grammy Award winning artist of all times with 32 trophies to her name. Second came Sir Georg Solti, an orchestral and operatic conductor, i with a total of 31 Grammy Awards won for recordings of works as diverse as Bach, Bartók, and Wagner.
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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.
With this latest certification, Katy Perry has amassed a total of four diamond singles throughout her career, and she now holds the record for the most diamond-certified singles among female musicians. Prior to this achievement, she was tied with Lady Gaga, as both artists had three diamond plaques to their credit.
Adele previously went diamond with 2011's 21, but it took that album closer to two years to hit 10 million — 25 has done it in half the time. She becomes the first woman to reach two diamond albums in the U.S. since Britney Spears last did it with 1999's ...
"Shake It Off" was certified diamond on March 13, 2020, making Swift the first female artist in US history to have both a diamond-certified single and album (2008's "Fearless").
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.
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Rihanna's 2011 song “We Found Love” with Calvin Harris has officially achieved diamond status. Updating their website to reflect this certification on April 27, RIAA has confirmed that this is the first single with Rihanna as the lead artist to go diamond, which equates to 10x platinum (10 million units sold).
It went 7x platinum in the US and sold 20 million copies worldwide. The group's singles, a rendition of "Killing Me Softly," "Fu-Gee-La," and "Ready or Not" showcased Lauryn's talent as a vocalist and emcee.
'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill' would go on to sell in excess of 20 million copies worldwide and peaked at #1 on the charts. Hill chose to pursue a private life following the success of the record, raising six children.
The late singer's 1985 debut Whitney Houston and her sophomore 1987 Whitney album are also Diamond, making her the only female artist to have three albums of that status. Only two other women in music history can say they have a Diamond-certified single and album: Taylor Swift and Mariah Carey.
For starters, unlike Adele, Taylor Swift or Usher, Beyoncé has no diamond-selling albums (not even her double-album I Am … Sasha Fierce, which would've had to sell only 5 million to earn that certification).
If that wasn't impressive enough, this means that Adele is one of very few women in history to have two diamond albums in the US (they include Britney Spears with 1999's Baby One More Time and Oops I Did It Again in 2000 and Celine Dion with Falling InTo You (1996) and Let's Talk About Love (1997)) and the first this ...
The RIAA gives diamond certifications to albums that have gone platinum 10 times. Out of more than 100 diamond-certified albums, only 29 are by women or female-fronted bands. Whitney Houston, Shania Twain, Britney Spears, and others have multiple entries on this list.
Thriller, the album, gained its overall Diamond certification back in 1983 and became 34 times multi-platinum in August 2021. That same month, Bad also became 11 times multi-platinum after becoming a Diamond-certified album in February 2017.
Beyoncé has broken the record for most lifetime Grammy wins with 32. With her victories tonight for dance/electronic music recording, traditional R&B performance, best R&B song and dance/electronic music album, Beyonce surpassed the late classical conductor Georg Solti, who won 31 Grammys.