Roddy Ricch becomes the latest rapper to earn an RIAA Diamond Plaque.
On Monday, Roddy Ricch celebrated the second anniversary of his debut album “Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial“, and now the rapper has another milestone to celebrate. The Compton native hit single “The Box” has earned a monumental RIAA Diamond Certification after selling over 10 million copies in the US.
The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 and spends eleven weeks at #1 during the start of 2020. Apple Music named it Song of the year, and it also received three nominations at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards.
Roddy Ricch now joins the list of rappers with solo RIAA Diamond Single credited to their name, including Drake, Eminem, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, Cardi B, Travis Scott and more.
The album was supported by four singles were released in favour of the album: “Big Stepper,” “Start wit Me” featuring Gunna, “Tip Toe” featuring A Boogie wit da Hoodie, and “High Fashion” featuring Mustard.
Prior to being released as a single, “The Box” became Roddy Ricch’s highest-charting song of his career, peaking at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100; the song was eventually released as the album’s fourth single.
‘Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial’ with 101,000 album-equivalent units (including 3,000 copies as pure album sales) in its first week, peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200. It became Roddy Ricch’s first chart-topping single. Additionally, the tracks on the record had a combined 130.7 million on-demand audio streams. The RIAA awarded the record double platinum certification for total sales and album-equivalent units of over two million in the US.
Check out Roddy Ricch’s celebration clip below.
Roddy Ricch officially has a Certified Diamond Record with “The Box”. the progress this mans made this early in his career is crazy, this new albums gonna remind people how great of an artist this man is pic.twitter.com/HkiMloDZh8
— Lasky💫 (@laskyluvsmusic) December 7, 2021
Roddy Ricch gets his diamond certified plaque for “The Box” 💎 pic.twitter.com/opBo4UBgeh
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) December 7, 2021
Since the release of Roddy Ricch’s ‘PEMFBA’ album, it has been certified 2x Platinum with multiple single certifications:
– The Box (Diamond)
– High Fashion (4x 💿)
– Start Wit Me (2x 💿)
– Boom Boom Room (1x 💿)
– Big Stepper (1x 💿)
– Bacc Seat (1x 💿)
– PETA (1x 💿) pic.twitter.com/B1vXb0irBZ— Hot Freestyle (@HotFreestyle) December 6, 2021
Rappers with a solo credited @RIAA Diamond single:@Drake@kanyewest @trvisXX
XXXTENTACION@iamcardib @fettywap @Eminem @NICKIMINAJ— chart data (@chartdata) November 10, 2021
