"Something About The Way You Look Tonight / Candle in the Wind" by Elton John. "Something About the Way You Look Tonight / Candle in the Wind" became the first-ever song to be certified diamond on October 9, 1997.
The Diamond level was subsequently introduced to recognize over 10 million certified units with the inaugural milestone awarded for Elton John's “Something About The Way You Look Tonight / Candle In The Wind 1997″ via Rocket.
Elton John's Candle In The Wind, released in 1997, was the first song to ever go diamond, and received the special recognition two years before the official award was confirmed.
The song is now 17x platinum. Platinum selling 2x diamond-certified artist Swae Lee and Grammy Award-nominated 5x diamond-certified artist Post Malone have made history once again. Their anthem “Sunflower” officially emerged as the “the highest-certified single in RIAA history,” going 17x-platinum as of this month.
['Old Town Road'] is now 14x Platinum and the most certified song in music history. Thank YOU!" The "Old Town Road" version featuring Cyrus has steadily climbed the certification ranks since it emerged in April 2019. (The original "Old Town Road" was first released in December 2018.)
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.
There are 116 songs in history that have been certified diamond — here they all are. "Stay" by The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber is the most recent song to receive the rare certification. It's Bieber's fourth diamond song ever. The RIAA gives diamond certifications to songs that have gone platinum 10 times.
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Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" were both certified diamond on August 29, 2022, nearly 40 years after their release.
Adele is the only artist or band in the last decade in the US to earn an RIAA diamond certification for a one disc album in less than two years.
Post Malone is the artist with the most diamond singles.
Thanks to her latest big win, Swift has become the first solo female musician to earn both a diamond-certified single and album, impressively beating out some women who have been releasing music for much longer than she has.
When the popularity of disco music led to a huge boom in music sales in the seventies, RIAA created the Platinum Award to celebrate more than one million sales of a single or album—and the first Platinum Single Award was earned by Johnnie Taylor's “Disco Lady.”
Postie is making pop music history. At just 25 years old, Post Malone is the youngest artist to ever notch three Diamond-certified songs: Malone's smash hits “Rockstar,” “Congratulations” and “Sunflower” have all sold 10 million units each.
NBA YoungBoy Receives Plaque For Having 100 Gold & Platinum Singles.
Johnnie Taylor's "Disco Lady" (Columbia) earns the RIAA's first Platinum Single Award in 1976, while five additional songs went on to achieve Platinum that year: The Associations' "Windy" (Warner Bros.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eminem has broken the record for the most gold and platinum singles certified by the RIAA in the organisation's history. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced the news last week (March 8).
Ariana Grande has received a total of 10 new platinum plaques this April 2021.