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When the RIAA changed the certification standards to match retail distribution in August 2006, all Platinum and Multi-Platinum awards for a digital release were withdrawn. Gold certifications, however, were not, meaning a song that was downloaded over 100,000 times and certified so by the RIAA during that time frame retains its Gold status. [25]
No album was certified platinum prior to this year. The 1958 RCA Victor recording by Van Cliburn of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto would eventually be awarded a platinum citation, but this did not occur until two decades after its release. In 1999, the diamond certification was introduced for sales of ten million units. In the late 1980s, the ...
It should also be noted that Mexico awards incremental gold certifications even after platinum has been achieved, so an album may be, for example, certified 2× Platinum + Gold. ^ VIII Dutch sales figures provided refer to "Popular" albums. A separate scale is used for jazz, classical, and world music albums: sales exceeding 10,000 and 20,000 ...
Over 150 songs have been certified diamond throughout history. They range from "Bohemian Rhapsody" (the best) to "Baby Shark" (the worst).
The album was released to celebrate Malone becoming the artist with the most diamond-certified singles by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It contains all the singles that were certified diamond from his first three studio albums, Stoney (2016), Beerbongs & Bentleys (2018), and Hollywood's Bleeding (2019), as well as the ...
The RIAA gives diamond certifications (upon request) to albums that have gone platinum 10 times. Out of more than 100 diamond-certified albums , only 30 are by women or female-fronted bands.
With more than 53 million albums sold worldwide, Creed stands alongside Van Halen, Guns N’ Roses and Metallica as one of the few hard rock bands to earn RIAA Diamond-certified status for more ...
List of artists with the top 50 highest-certified digital singles as of December 18, 2024 [65] [66] Rank Units (millions) Name Nat. Active 1 244 Drake: Canada 2000s–2020s [25] 2 183 Rihanna: Barbados 2000s–2020s [56] 3 167 Eminem: US 1990s–2020s [16] 4 161.5 Beyoncé: US 2000s–2020s [67] 5 160.5 Kanye West: US 2000s–2020s [52] 6 142 ...