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The following is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album must have achieved at least a diamond certification from the RIAA.
2,000,000+ (in increments of 1,000,000 thereafter) units: Multi-Platinum album; 10,000,000 units: Diamond album; Starting from February 1, 2016, each album unit may be one of the following: [15] [16] Each permanent digital album or physical album sale; 10 tracks from the album downloaded; 1,500 on-demand audio or video streams of songs from the ...
According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Diamond has sold 49.5 million albums in the United States. [4] Diamond is the only artist to score a top 20 hit in each decade since the creation of Billboard ' s Adult Contemporary chart. In a career spanning five decades, he has scored 38 top-40 singles and 16 top-10 albums on ...
Beyoncé's extensive list of RIAA recognitions includes seven-times platinum status for her debut solo album "Dangerously in Love" as well as her project "I Am Sasha Fierce." Her "4" and "Lemonade ...
Beyoncé is now the most RIAA certified female artist of all time with 103 certified titles across her discography, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced Tuesday. “We ...
[7] [8] 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. [9]
List of studio albums, with release details, selected chart positions, sales and certifications ... RIAA: Diamond [16] ARIA: 4× Platinum [56] BPI: Platinum [18]
Out of more than 100 diamond-certified albums, only a handful are by women or female-fronted bands. Katy Perry is the most recent addition. Only 30 albums by women have been certified diamond ...