RIAA Name Eminem First Artist To Earn Two Digital Diamond Awards.
Eminem Already Achieved a Lot his Career, Now The Detroit Rapper has Become the First artist to Receive 2 Digital Diamond Awards From RIAA. The Chairman & CEO Cary Sherman Recently Present the Awards to Eminem. His Two Singles ‘Not Afraid’ & ‘Love The Way You Lie’ feature as 10x Platinum Singles. Eminem Already Won Two Diamond awards For his Two Biggest Albums Like – The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) & The Eminem Show (2002), Overall 37 Million Sold in the United States.
Cary Sherman, chairman/CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, noted the occasion: “We are delighted to recognize Eminem as the first artist to earn two RIAA Digital Diamond Awards. This singular achievement, earning a Diamond Award on two separate digital songs, is unparalleled, and we congratulate him on forever etching a mark in Gold & Platinum Program history.”
His career RIAA album awards represent more than 37 million albums sold in the United States, putting him at No. 44 on the all-time RIAA list of “Top Selling Artists,” just behind Bob Dylan and ahead of Backstreet Boys, while his digital single certifications now exceed 31 million, counting downloads and streams and spanning 10 different songs, putting him at No. 6 on the all-time list, behind Kanye West (29.5m).
The RIAA’s Gold & Platinum Program, which was established in 1958, was expanded in 1999 to include a Diamond Award, which recognizes albums or single sales of 10 million or more copies in the United States. In 2004, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) launched the Digital Single Award to recognize the tremendous sales of developing digital music formats. In 2013, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) introduced music streaming to its Digital Single Award.
Eminem has two 10x multi-Platinum Diamond certified albums: The Marshall Mathers LP (released in 2000) and The Eminem Show (released in 2002), both on Aftermath/Interscope. His career RIAA album awards represent more than 37 million units sold in the United States, placing him No. 44 on the all-time RIAA “Top Selling Artists” list, just behind Bob Dylan and ahead of Backstreet Boys, while his digital single certifications now exceed 31 million units, counting downloads and streams and spanning 10 different songs, placing him No. 6 on the all-time list, behind Kanye West (31.5 million) and ahead of Flo Rida (29.5m).
Check out his Picture with 2 Digital Diamond Awards, Still No Smile.
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