As of June 8, 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.
Eminem Makes History as Most-Certified Artist For Singles in RIAA Gold & Platinum Program History. 'Curtain Call: The Hits,' has been certified as Marshall's third diamond album.
The Golden Beatles
The Beatles earn their first Gold Album Award for "Meet The Beatles!" (Capitol Records). More than 50 years later, the band is the most-awarded band in Gold & Platinum Program history.
1. "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.
The RIAA gives diamond certifications to songs that have gone platinum 10 times. Only 110 songs in history have been certified diamond and 21 artists have multiple songs on the list. Post Malone has the most with eight, followed by Bruno Mars with six.
Brooks' seven diamond albums are his self-titled debut, No Fences, Ropin' The Wind, The Hits, Double-Live, The Ultimate Hits and, coincidentally, Sevens.
1. Elvis Presley. You can't really act surprised when you see Elvis Presley at the top of this list. You know, there's a reason why they called him "The King." You wanted to know who has the most platinum records, and here he is!
Asha Bhosale. Legendary Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle has entered the Guinness World Records for the most number of single studio recordings. She is best known for her playback singing in Hindi cinema. Asha has recorded up to 11,000 solo, duets and chorus-backed songs.
The Beatles have tallied the most No. 1 hits in the 61-year history of the Hot 100, with 20. Their closest competitor is Mariah Carey, with 18.
Thriller, the album, gained its overall Diamond certification back in 1983 and became 34 times multi-platinum in August 2021.
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.
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.
INXS sold 55 million albums worldwide and had hits like Need You Tonight and Never Tear Us Apart.
AC/DC is arguably the most popular band from Australia and one of the most popular rock bands in the world. Despite never achieving a single Top 20 hit in America, they still managed to sell albums, which consistently went platinum.
Taylor Swift has once again made music history by claiming every single top 10 spot on Billboard's Hot 100 chart at once. No other artist has ever held all 10 spots at the same time, according to Billboard.
The most-streamed song in Spotify history is credited to… The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights."
"Something About the Way You Look Tonight / Candle in the Wind" became the first-ever song to be certified diamond on October 9, 1997. In fact, it received the certification two years before the official diamond award was unveiled by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Since the RIAA introduced its awards on 14 March 1958, Elvis Presley holds the record for the most platinum certificates for both albums and singles with 82.
Although 50 Cent mentions diamond status in his posts, his first two albums haven't yet been certified diamond on the Recording Industry Association of America's website. According to the RIAA, as of February 2020, Get Rich or Die Tryin' — which celebrated its 18th anniversary last month — went platinum nine times.
Garth Brooks holds the record for most diamond-certified albums, with nine. Others with three or more albums that have reached diamond status include The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Shania Twain and the Eagles.
Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) by the Eagles is the best-selling album of all time in the U.S.