1. "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.
Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' Becomes the Highest Certified Song in RIAA History. Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' has been certified 14-times platinum by the RIAA.
"Old Town Road" was certified 15-times platinum on September 17, 2021. It has since been certified 17-times platinum, as of November 29, 2022. "Closer" was certified 15-times platinum on November 2, 2022. "Sunflower" was certified 17-times platinum on November 14, 2022.
The Beatles have the most No. 1 hits of all time: 20. Though unclear for how long, the Beatles still reign supreme as the artist with the most No.
Michael Jackson's Thriller, estimated to have sold 70 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever. Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, Celine Dion has four, while the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Madonna and Whitney Houston each have three.
"Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus
"Old Town Road" is the fastest song in history to be certified diamond.
NBA YoungBoy Receives Plaque For Having 100 Gold & Platinum Singles.
Post Malone holds the record for the most diamond-certified songs with eight to his name.
This is according to "The Summertime Connection", a group of fans from around the world with a shared passion for the aria, written by Gershwin in 1933–34 for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. As of the same date, the group had collected 57,316 full recordings of "Summertime".
As music sales increased with the introduction of compact discs, the RIAA created the Multi-Platinum award in 1984. Diamond awards, honoring those artists whose sales of singles or albums reached 10,000,000 copies, were introduced in 1999.
These awards, given by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), represent huge sales—500,000 units for gold, 1 million for platinum, 2 million or more for multiplatinum, and 10 million for diamond.
Post Malone has broken the record for the most RIAA diamond-certified singles from any artist, with three newly certified records.
Michael Jackson leads the way with the biggest success of his career (of anyone's career, actually), Thriller, which is millions ahead of any other title. The RIAA has certified the title 33-times platinum for equivalent sales of at least 33 million copies, making it the only collection to go three-times diamond.
Asha Bhosle – Most recorded artist in music history
Asha Bhosle has recorded up to 11000 solo, duets and chorus backed songs and several others in over 20 Indian languages since 1947.
Elvis's First Gold (of Many)
With 146.5 million cumulative Album Awards, spanning 101 separate Gold (or higher) albums, Elvis has earned the most Gold Album Awards of any artist in RIAA history. Did You Know?
As of June 22, 2023, The Beatles have the highest total certified albums and Drake has the highest total certified digital singles. Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Eminem, and Taylor Swift are the only acts in the top 30 of both lists.
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'. She'll definitely be buying herself a bouquet...
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.
Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney and Phil Collins are the only musicians to have sold over 100 million albums as a solo artist and member of a group.
Speaking to OfficialCharts.com, Queen guitarist Brian May says: “We're here to bring you the joyous news that Queen's Greatest Hits album has sold 7 million copies, which nobody has ever done before. No album has done this before in history.
The use of her song “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” in the series has shot it up the charts in a way it didn't even when the song was released in 1985! In fact, it's the oldest song to EVER reach No.