Defining Work:So Far Gonewas 40s stepping-stone, and in 2011, he bloomed into a perennial producer when he masterminded Drakes sophomore jewelTake Care. Defining Work:Yeah!, Ushers enormous 2004 single, in which hip-hop, pop, R&B and crunk collided into one immaculate dance floor filler in which Ludacris correctly points out that Lil Jongot the beat that make your booty go *SNAP*. Sugar Hill as a label came to an end in 1986 after a disagreement with distributors, MCA, resulted in protracted litigation. [2] The audit is conducted against net shipments after returns (most often an artist's royalty statement is used), which includes albums sold directly to retailers and one-stops, direct-to-consumer sales (music clubs and mail order) and other outlets. 2021-05-04 In this second edition of The Murder of Biggie Smalls, Cathy Scott delves behind the scenes to pore over police records, coroner reports, FBI les, and interviews Biggie's mother, Voletta Wallace, to reveal new facts surrounding the gangsta rapper's murder. The company, with Sylvia helming the creative operations as well as producing or co-producing many releases, racked up a series of R&B and Pop hits during the 70s, despite being only a small independent concern. With three Hot 100 No. The Swedish producer born Karl Sandberg helped mold the teenybopper explosion at the turn of the century and then never let up, giving us hit after hit through different permutations of popular music, leading the way for all of popular music with zero end in sight. Multi-disc albums are counted once for each disc within the album if it is over 100 minutes in length or is from the vinyl era. After starting out as a protege of Dr. Luke at the turn of the 2010s, Blanco has transcended his turbo-pop beginnings and cooked up smashes of various styles and tempos for most of the past decades A-listers. Originally conceived to honor artists and track sound recording sales, Gold & Platinum Awards have come to stand as a benchmark of success for any artistwhether they've just released their first song or Greatest Hits album. [28] Since 2010, only 5 titles have been certified Video Single. To kick off our list for who has the most platinum records, we start with Garth Brooks at number 20. Defining Work: Although Rechtshaid worked closely with Haim on all three of the trios studio albums, 2020sWomen in Music Pt. Associated Acts:Usher, Pitbull, Petey Pablo. JASON LIPSHUTZ, Associated Artists:Post Malone, Camila Cabello, Miley Cyrus. Signature Sound:Steamrolling club beats and whooshing synthesizers that sound like theyre beaming you up into a glittery, alien disco. 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. Wu-Tang Clan Platinum albums: 3 Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Forever The W Public Enemy Platinum albums: 3 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Fear of a Black Planet Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black Run-D.M.C. All Platinum Records was a record company started in 1967 by singer/writer/producer Sylvia Robinson and her husband, businessman Joe Robinson, who had previously worked in the recording industry. Comment with a spicy version of DIBS to . His upcoming album, Certified Lover Boy, is coming in 2021. Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, introducing citations to additional sources, The Good Rats ( One Album only- "Ratcity in Blue"), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All_Platinum_Records&oldid=1052348876, This page was last edited on 28 October 2021, at 17:38. And while we tried to make our list as inclusive and wide-ranging as possible, we have to acknowledge that women in particular are still woefully underrepresented while men whove been accused of abusing their power are unfortunately overrepresented a sad reflection of a corner of the industry that, despite some great strides in recent years, remains overwhelmingly male-dominated, particularly at its highest levels. Since 2000, the RIAA also awards Los Premios de Oro y De Platino (Gold and Platinum Awards in Spanish) to Latin albums which are defined by the RIAA as a type of product that features at least 51% of content in Spanish. Signature Sound:Booming, cinematic production allowing artists to dive deep and pen anecdotal rhymes and stadium-shaking anthems. Certification is not automatic; for an award to be made, the record label must first request certification. Hidden Gem:ShakirasHow Do You Do,a soaring rocker about grappling with faith from 2005sOral Fixation, Vol. With a combined six Diamond awards, three for albums and three for singles, he has secured a place as one of the biggest-selling acts in music history, with the more than 73 million new certifications pushing his career RIAA Award total to 227.5 million. A.U. Hidden Gem:Drinks on Us an all-star collab boasting Future, The Weeknd and Swae Lee is a zonked-out, skittering jam that conjures up that post-midnight moment when you should probably go home, but order another round instead. A Gold record is a song or album that sells 500,000 units (records, tapes, and compact discs). Defining Work: The timeless, genre-bending, mid-tempo groove from Solange Knowles Grammy-winning Cranes in the Sky helped make it one of the years most acclaimed songs and a top 15 Hot R&B Songs hit when it was released in 2016. Defining Work: The combination of Sam Hunts languid spoken and sung vocals in Take Your Time, laid over an insinuating rhythm that picks up slightly as Hunts desire rises, makes for an unforgettably sexy track. ANDREW UNTERBERGER, Associated Artists: Anuel AA, Ozuna, Lunay. Associated Artists: Jay-Z, Common, Pusha T. Signature Sound: For most of the 00s, West made pitched-up soul samples over knocking beats one of the default sounds of popular music then he embraced Auto-Tune at decades end, got really into soundscapes that split the difference between 90s industrial and Chicago drill, and never looked back. These included the million-seller, "Love on a Two-Way Street" in 1970 (#1 R&B, #3 pop) and another R&B chart-topper, "Look at Me (I'm in Love)", which also reached #39 on the pop chart in 1975. According to RIAA, the producer-turned-rapper has an estimated sale of over 160 million units. J. Lipshutz, Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox, A daily briefing on what matters in the music industry. Hidden Gem:MFN Right, from the 2016 2 Chainz-Lil Wayne project ColleGrove, in whichZaytoventeamed up with Mike WiLL Made-It and delivered a pan flute hook that should have been hypnotizing the world well into 2017. But in the 00s and beyond, producers have consistently become household names in their own right, defining entire eras of popular music, and frequently becoming recording stars themselves. Pink Floyd's The Wall and the Beatles' White Album, both vinyl-era, are also counted as double even though their running times are under the minimum requirement. Hidden Gem: Ass on the Floor, from Diddys Dirty Money collectives 2011 albumLast Train to Paris, a chart flop but reliable club killer for its Major Lazer-sampling beat, glacial synths, and shoutalong hook provided by Swizz himself Them haters cant tell you NOTHIN! A.U. Perhaps unsurprisingly, British rock band The Beatles are top of the list for best-selling artists worldwide, with 183 million units certified sales. N.F. The award was launched in 1958;[3] originally, the requirement for a Gold single was one million units sold and a Gold album represented $1million in sales (at wholesale value, around a third of the list price). Elton John, Cardi B, Justin Bieber, and Bruno Mars. With muffled vocal loops, vaguely robotic synths and knocking beats that shake you like a mildly menacing 5.0 on the Richter scale, the ATL super-producer has helmed everything from club-rattling hip-hop to bedroom R&B to thumping pop anthems since his early 10s breakthrough. The. Defining Work:She was an angsty Canadian teen, they were an adult L.A. trio ready to cement her as a superstar can I make it anymore obvious? Defining Work: Building on what they started with Ne-Yos Hot 100 topper So Sick,Stargatetapped the same strummy, spacious, snappy palette for another trend-setting No. In what started off as a piece of music from the Bronx borough of New York City, hip-hop has emerged as one of the most important aspects of pop culture. The latest Gold was awarded to "R40" by Rush in 2017. 761 likes, 19 comments - King T (@kingtla) on Instagram on October 29, 2021: "Hoodmornin! [4] Reflecting growth in record sales, the Platinum award was added in 1976, for albums able to sell one million units, and singles selling two million units. [32] Certification levels are identical to those of singles, 500,000 for Gold and 1,000,000 for Platinum and Multi-Platinum. Signature Sound: A simple, uncluttered sound that often relies on well-placed mics and traditional instrumentation instead of modern-day wizardry. If there's been one consistent in popular music across the first 20-plus years of the 21st century, it's been the prominence of the producer at the forefront. Listen to the complete playlist on Insider's Spotify. JOE LYNCH, Associated Artists: Sam Hunt, Kacey Musgraves, Old Dominion. [citation needed] Prior to Nielsen SoundScan, RIAA certification was the only audited and verifiable system for tracking music sales in the U.S.; it is still the only system capable of tracking 100% of sales (albeit as shipments less returns, not actual sales like Nielsen SoundScan). Defining Work: Along with regular collaborator Travis Scott, WondaGurl helped add the extra thunder to Rihannas booming Bitch Better Have My Money, turning the non-album single from an easily forgotten in-betweener to something close to a signature hit for the pop megastar. (Yes, really!) 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. Hozier's "Take Me to Church" is the most recent song to receive the rare certification. Hidden Gem: Australian sister duo The Veronicas couldnt quite break America with either of their two perfect singles off 2005 debut albumThe Secret Life Of,4ever and Everything Im Not, but their chugging guitar grooves and immaculate chorus harmonies deservedly made them stars in their home country. J. Lynch, Associated Artists: Eric Church, Brothers Osborne, Miranda Lambert, Signature Sound: Joyce is a chameleon who brings out the best in every artist he works with by bringing a fearless inventiveness that allows him to create a studio out of a restaurant, as he did for Eric Churchs Heart & Soul, or tackle new sonic and lyrical terrain on Little Big Towns career-defining Girl Crush.. Related:Eminem Fans Lap Up Photos From The Higher Video Shoot. K.B. EvenMartinsometimes misses the charts but as a fist-raising shot of pop, this was no miss. Since . Hidden Gem: Mariah Careys Up Out My Face, whose single version featuring Nicki Minaj somehow just barely scraped the Hot 100 at No. Defining Work: RadioheadsKid A, an album so successful at removing the guitar from the core sound of one of the worlds most beloved turn-of-the-century rock bands that many wondered at the time if it sounded the death knell for the instrument altogether. All Spanish-language albums certified prior to 2008 were updated to match the current certification at the time. It is the first Diamond certification of JuiceWRLD's career, and the first for a rap star. [24], Starting May 9, 2013, RIAA certifications for singles in the "digital" category include on-demand audio and/or video song streams in addition to downloads at a rate of 100 streams=1 certification "unit". Defining Work: Power, lead single from 2010sMy Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, features Dean playing guitar, bass and keyboards mixing them (along with Kanye and co-producers Jeff Bhasker and S1) into a thick, boiling sonic stew that helped the rapper turn the page on a new sound for a new decade. It has a lot of the elements that worked so well forBellwith 5 Seconds of Summers Youngblood and Easier, but never connected like those pop radio success stories. All records listed on our website are current and up-to-date. [10] A similar discrepancy between shipments and sales was reported with The Lion King soundtrack. Associated Artists: Carlos Vives, Ricky Martin, Prince Royce. Most Platinum Albums: Jay Z (15) First: Whodini Escape (1984) Last: Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late (2015) The Complete List of Names With Number of Platinum Albums As of October. Just under a month after its debut, CLB received its RIAA Platinum status.