The only audited measure of record sales in the United States is certification 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.
Elvis Presley is the artist with the most platinum albums.
Rappers with the most MULTI platinum albums 💿🤯 10 - Jay Z 8 - Drake 8 - Kanye West 8 - Eminem 6 - Lil Wayne 6 - Tupac 4 - OutKast 3 - Nicki Minaj 3 - Notorious BIG 3 - Future 3 - Juice WRLD 3 - DMX 3 - Nas 3 - Snoop Dogg This list truly is LEGENDS only!
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.
Rappers with the most platinum certified albums (US): 17 - Jay Z 10 - Tupac 9 - Lil Wayne 9 - Eminem 9 - Kanye West 8 - Snoop Dogg 7 - Drake 7 - OutKast 7 - Nas 5 - Missy Elliot 5 - J.
Raising Hell is the third studio album by American hip hop group Run-D.M.C., released on May 15, 1986, by Profile Records. The album was produced by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin. Raising Hell became the first Platinum and multi-Platinum hip hop record.
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.
Post Malone
Post Malone holds the record for the most diamond-certified songs with eight to his name. He earned his first in 2019 for "Congratulations." He received two more awards in 2020 (for "Rockstar" and "Sunflower") and an additional two in 2022 (for "White Iverson" and "Psycho" featuring Ty Dolla $ign).
['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.)
Post Malone has broken the record for the most RIAA diamond-certified singles from any artist, with three newly certified records.
Elvis's First Gold (of Many)
With 146.5 million cumulative Album Awards, spanning 101 separate Gold (or higher) albums, Elvis has earned the most Gold Album Awards of any artist in RIAA history. Did You Know?
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.
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. The RIAA awards diamond plaques to albums and singles that reach 10 times platinum status.
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.
"Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus
"Old Town Road" is the fastest song in history to be certified diamond.
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 Beatles have the most number one hits on the chart, with 20 songs having reached that position.
The champion of creating long albums is Bull of Heaven, an experimental outfit that holds the record for the longest album ever made. The project, formed by Clayton Counts and Neil Keener, released 310: ΩΣPx0(2^18×5^18)p*k*k*k in 2014, which is 3.343 quindecillion years long. How they achieved such a feat is baffling.
1. Thriller - Michael Jackson. Heading this list, we have one of the greatest albums of all time, and it's not hard to see why. The album, which was released in 1982, shows hues of post-disco and rock tunes and features a collection of timeless hits, including Beat It, Billie Jean, and the title track Thriller.
March 9, 2011: By 2011, Eminem had proven his historical dominance 10 times over. On this day, in 2011, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) revealed that two of Em's albums had gone 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.
“Lollipop, my first Diamond record,” Wayne said in the clip. “10 million singles sold; not streams. 10 million singles.” After thanking fans for helping him achieve the feat, Wheezy paid tribute to producer Static Major, who died just two weeks before his posthumous vocals would appear on “Lollipop.”