Rihanna‘s 2012 smash “Diamonds” is staying true to its title 12 years later by incomes diamond certification from the Recording Business Affiliation of America (RIAA) on Monday (April 22).
Roc Nation formally introduced the information by way of X on Monday morning, revealing that the one has gathered 10 million equal tune items. In response to the RIAA, one equal tune unit is the same as a single digital tune sale, or 150 on-demand audio and/or video streams. That is Rihanna’s third tune to realize diamond standing, following her 2010 “Love the Manner You Lie” collaboration with Eminem (licensed on Might 9, 2013) and her 2011 “We Discovered Love” collaboration with Calvin Harris (licensed on April 27, 2023).
Rihanna launched “Diamonds” because the lead single from her 2012 seventh studio album Unapologetic, which was nominated for one of the best city modern album on the 2014 Grammy Awards. It earned RiRi her twelfth No. 1 hit on the Billboard Sizzling 100, the place it spent three weeks on prime of the chart. The tune additionally topped Billboard‘s Dance Membership Songs (1 week), Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (14 weeks) and Rhythmic Airplay charts (10 weeks).
She launched into the Diamonds World Tour in help of Unapologetic, which she introduced after opening the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards alongside her present accomplice A$AP Rocky, with whom she shares two sons RZA and Riot Rose Mayers. She mirrored on their efficiency in her latest Interview cowl story. “He grabbed my a– … So when he grabbed my a– that night time, everyone thought I used to be about to … My crew was nervous that I wished to have his head on a f–king mantle,” she stated. “However I used to be like, ‘Ah, nah.’ That’s why everyone was like, ‘Oh my god. She likes him.’”
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