Which records have gone diamond

Sorry, we weren't able to sign you up. Please check your details, and try again. Top 10 artist who received diamond status for their songs. Having a diamond status is considered a huge honour in the music industry. The catchy song managed to sell more than 10 million in the US alone. Lady Gaga managed to land two diamond certifications for her hit songs. The remix of the song was streamed more than million times.

Eminem received two RIAA diamond certifications for his streams and marketing sales. The hit single was named the highest-certified diamond single. Call Me Maybe managed to sell more than 7. Name: Email: Great news, we've signed you up. Test your knowledge. All rights reserved. It's worth celebrating whenever we get a brand new, RIAA-certified diamond-selling album -- indicating sales and streaming equivalent sales of ten million units -- because for a while, it looked like we might never get another one again.

For a half-decade after Usher's Confessions was released in , no album of new material was released that even got particularly close to diamond status, largely the result of a download-reeling music industry adjusting slowly to the decline of physical media.

Then, Adele. The album stayed on top the Billboard for 24 weeks, and was given the Diamond certification in November of , eventually going 14x platinum. For her next act, Ms. And on Sept. To honor the exclusive club that Adele joined with her latest sales achievement, we've ranked every one of the RIAA-certified diamond albums.

That's not counting compilations -- including greatest-hits collections, live albums, and certain soundtracks -- unless the set is comprised mainly of contemporary material.

The Dirty Dancing soundtrack, for instance, includes seven contemporary songs and five old ones, so it's in, but Garth Brooks' The Ultimate Hits -- itself certified diamond earlier this week -- has only four new songs in 34 tracks, so it's out. It's still a whopping 92 albums, though, ranging nearly 60 years back to Elvis Presley's Elvis' Christmas Album. Each album's year of release and most-recent platinum certification as of Dec.

Some day, a smooth-jazz scholar will make the rounds informing us about why Kenny G was actually a genre innovator and stealth underground influence, shaming us for all the thoughtless jokes made at his expense over the years. All the Right Reasons opens with the not-misleadingly titled "Follow You Home," featuring singer Chad Kroeger's promise that trying to murder him would merely slow down his stalking efforts, and follows that with "Fight for All the Wrong Reasons," in which Kroeger testifies that he'd leave his toxic relationship of "favorable slavery" if only his girlfriend would stop going down on him.

It gets better from there, but not, like, a lot. Good production, though. An expert collection of Adult Contemporary super-competence, its degree placidness is broken only by the mega-ballad you already knew from Titanic and the song where Celine tries her hand at dancehall for some reason.

Carl Wilson wrote a great book about it; that and the Bee Gees and Babs duets may be all you really need to take away from this one. The least-likely blockbuster LP of the TRL era, with a thenyear-old Carlos Santana riding two Hot topping, big-name-featuring smashes to sales that not even Britney and Backstreet could match. Britney Spears. Kicking off the second possibly third? Metal sans metal, far more enamored with Bruce Springsteen than Bruce Dickinson, and much better and muuuuch more successful for it.

A solid power-pop album -- just one whose genial frat-rock veneer blankets any underlying urgency or desperation. Regardless of your feelings about young Robert James Ritchie, how many artists can say they were instrumental in the rise of both nu-metal and Auto-Tune?

Making you sit through four Hans Zimmer instrumentals in between the two sets is pretty low, though. Strewn with AOR classics, no doubt, but for a band who's become close to synonymous with overblown stadium rock, you might be surprised by how frisky this set is -- whether REO is mixing power pop with Bo Diddley on "Don't Let Him Go," or throwing back to the girl group era with falsetto to match!

Jazzy enough to be released on Blue Note records, Come Away With Me hardly fits the usual bill as a Diamond album, but became enough of a sensation for its smooth sailing that it swept the Grammys and sold eight digits. A stirred-up cauldron of Wagner, Spector and Andrew Lloyd Webber whose brew was potent enough to make an overweight, overzealous theater kid a rock god for at least one album.

Kenny G songs. The S. A staggering amount of the next 40 years of rock music can be traced back here in some way.

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