Tying with such artists as Drake, Tupac, and Lil Wayne for top albums, Game is more than deserving of his flowers. 'Cypress Hill' went gold by the end of 1991 and has since pushed past double platinum status, making it the first album for a Latino-American hip hop … Found inside – Page 62Julio Iglesias' Spanish-language album "Julio" (Columbia, 1983) became the first foreign-language album to hit double-platinum. Garnering platinum albums ... In 1996, she dropped her solo debut album, Hard Core, which topped the Billboard charts, went double-platinum, and is now widely considered to be one of the most influential rap albums of all-time. Portugal. An album that becomes Platinum twice over, for example, an album which has sold 2,000,000 copies in the United States, is said to be "Double-Platinum", or sometimes "Multi-Platinum". The double platinum album would set the foundation for the Compton rapper’s heavily decorated career with multiple platinum singles and albums. The album was refreshing as it replaced dark and violent lyrics heard on typical rap tracks with a humorous and happy outlook. The hip-hop megastar just saw his latest album go double-platinum, thanks to the fact that online streaming is … Found inside – Page 168Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans Matt Miller ... Tha Carter II (the second in a planned five-album Carter series) reached double platinum status. It is widely considered one of the seminal acts of the hardcore hip hopand West Coast hip hop subgenres and sometimes credited as the most important group in the history of hip hop music. Hard Core was certified double platinum and sold more than six million copies worldwide. Sell This Version. DBP 102003. But the legendary acts at the top of the list are ones you'd expect to see. Found inside – Page 111-selling holiday album at 5.6 million copies sold, according to SoundScan. ... reached double- platinum, while "Blue" (Curb, 1996) is triple-platinum. The record was a phenomenal success, selling over 500,000 … Found insideNevertheless, Relapse won the 2010 Grammy Award for best rap album, and Eminem shared ... Tha Block Is Hot, arrived later in 1999 and went double platinum, ... Found inside – Page 112For the album's cover art , G Rap and his partner , DJ Polo , were ski ... Following his double - platinum 1988 LP , Let's Get It Started , with the ... Illmatic has since gone on to become a Double Platinum album thus cementing its place in hip-hop history. The award was launched in 1958; originally, the requirement for a Gold single was one million units sold and a Gold album represented $1 million in sales (at wholesale value, around a third of the list price). Platinum album: 1,000,000 copies; Double Platinum album: 2,000,000 copies; Diamond album: 10,000,000 copies; You have to sell this many copies to reach the various album … An album that becomes Platinum twice over, for example, an album which has sold 2,000,000 copies in the United States, is said to be "Double-Platinum", or sometimes "M… Found insideFellow Compton rap artist King Tee featured raps from his producer, DJ Pooh, ... “Don't Fight the Feelin',” a song from his double-platinum album Life Is.. This made her the first female solo rap act to receive a platinum certification, and the second overall female rap act (solo or group) after Salt-N-Pepa. A Gold record is a single or album that sells 500,000 units (records, tapes or compact discs). Sony was widely criticized in 1995 for hyping Michael Jackson's double album HIStory as five times Platinum, based on shipments of 2.5 million and using the RIAA's recently adopted practice of counting each disc toward certification, while SoundScan was reporting only 1.3 million copies sold. Maes augmented his already double-Platinum album Les derniers salopards with three new songs, the pick of which, “ Prioritaire ,” is a tender dedication to his newborn daughter. Found insideThe gangsta rap album entered Billboard's Top 200 at number nine and was ... The album went double platinum, making it to number 3 on the Billboard 200 and ... Hip-Hop Label 101: Priority Records. RIAA’s historic Gold® & Platinum® Program defines success in the recorded music industry. After selling 180 Million records worldwide, winning 15 Gammys and 1 Academy Awards, becoming the most successful rapper of all time and the most selling artist of the past decade, Eminem has received 28 RIAA certifications as a solo artist. Prior to DETROIT 2, all four of Sean’s previous albums – which include Finally Famous, his RIAA platinum debut of 2011, and Hall Of Fame (2013) – debuted at #1 on the Rap chart. “My Turn” is the highest selling, and highest streaming, album of the year. Found inside – Page 173In fact, Blige, like Jodeci, got her start singing backup for Uptown rap artist Father MC. The producer of her first two double platinum albums, ... This comes after his debut album, The Bigger Artist was certified platinum in 2019. Almost reaching its second year of existence, the album has reached double platinum status. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Found insideIt went double platinum within just a month, and it reached quadruple ... Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group ("Ms. Jackson") and Best Rap Album. 1,000+ album search results for double platinum . “Going Gold” is the music industry’s parlance for selling 500,000 copies of an album. 2Pac, All Eyez on Me. 1 album on the Billboard 200 and contained standout hit … He debuted his first studio album “Thank me Later” in 2010, which topped the US Billboard 200 and was certified platinum. Country singer Garth Brooks, for instance, has the most diamond (or 10-times platinum) albums of all time with seven. Found inside – Page 357... and his three albums on Jive/Arista all went platinum or double platinum. Ocean, along with the dynamic rap duo Whodini, represented the high point of ... B.O.A.T.S. Priority Records had a habit of changing the music business. Found inside – Page 103certified double platinum, and he became politically active, filing for candidacy in the 2010 Haitian presidential election. Pras's first solo studio album, ... However, one insider calls the Best Album lineup “a travesty,” with little of the relevance of the song list. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. “This week, the late rapper’s posthumous debut, Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon has spent 19 consecutive weeks at No. The first track … This album has so far gone double platinum and with the success of the film Straight Outta Compton, there is no reason why sales figures should … He decided to go solo and released the album, ‘It Takes a Thief’. Found inside – Page 13Also, Salt-N-Pepa became the first female rap act to score a multiplatinum album; the group's Next Plateau release "Very Necessary" hit double-platinum. 1993. Lil Baby's Album 'My Turn' Certified Double Platinum | Rap-Up Its single 'Fantastic Voyage' gave him the much-needed breakthrough. His role in band WC and the Maad Circle’s debut album was also limited. Below are certification thresholds for the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and France. At Spotify alone, domestic streams of the track amount to over 8 … The award was launched in 1958; originally, the requirement for a Gold single was one million units sold and a Gold album represented $1 million in sales (at wholesale value, around a third of the list price). Essential: "Paid in Full (Eric B. 40 Best Rap Albums of 2017 Migos, Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar and more of the year in rhymes ... and Kendrick Lamar provided a new way to hear his double platinum album … Double Platinum 25 essential albums in Southern hip-hop. Found inside – Page 93With seventeen tracks , He ' s the DJ , I ' m the Rapper is perhaps the first double rap album , and also one of the first rap albums to go double platinum . Both albums , but especially the second , found DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince ... Found inside – Page 132The now infamous Queensbridge reigns over most of the album— Mobb Deep even ... Dangerous Minds soundtrack (MCA)— double platinum • Independent rap album ... The discography of Shaquille O'Neal, a former American National Basketball Association player and rapper, consists of four studio albums, 2 compilation albums, 2 soundtracks, one unreleased album, and 9 singles. Found inside – Page 7And Paula Abdul, Michael Bolton, and Paul Simon landed their second double-platinum studio albums in a row. Abdul's "Spellbound," Bolton's "Time, ... But not the big ones. O'Neal played in the NBA from 1992 until 2011. Posthumously, his album Ready To Die has been hailed as the cornerstone marker for the East Cost Rap Scene and thrived while he was alive, going gold within 2 months, and later going double platinum by the following year, according to Biography.It ranks in the top 10 of Rolling Stone‘s 100 Best Albums Of The Nineties, as well as their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Raising Hell (1986) became the first multi-platinum hip hop record. Run-DMC's cover of "Walk This Way", featuring Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, charted higher on the Billboard Hot 100 than Aerosmith's original version, peaking at number four. It became one of the best known songs in both hip hop and rock. His sophomore project has now been certified double platinum. Furthermore, in 2021, Illmatic was selected by … The 25-year-old artist took to … The album was certified double-platinum and peaked at number three on the charts. The RIAA platinum hip-hop landmark featured “It Ain’t Hard To Tell,” “The World Is Yours,” and “One.” 1996 brought the breakthrough double-platinum It Was Written(#1 R&B for 7 weeks, #1 pop for 4 weeks), with his first major crossover singles “Street Dreams” and “If I Ruled the World (Imagine That).” Academic essays reflect on the 1994 album Illmatic by Nasir "Nas" Jones, covering topics ranging from jazz history to gender. This book is part of Hyperink's best little books series. This best little book is 3,900+ words of fast, entertaining information on a highly demanded topic. Found insideLOS ANGELES Run-D.M.C. became the first rap act tu earn a platinum album when ... Jane Fonda, who earned a double- platinum album with her 1982 "Workout ... Found inside – Page 110Double-platinum firsts include Charlotte Church's "Voice Of An Angel" (Sony ... Although rock and rap albums are often less than dominant at the Kmarts and ... That’s why, after putting together the list of every rapper to ever have a platinum hip-hop album, we were eager to dive back into another breakdown of the Platinum Master List we compiled which had not only every artist, but every album and the year the album was released. The Mamas & The Papas / Mama Cass* / John Phillips -. It achieved double platinum status, and has sold 3,800,000 copies worldwide as of 2019. The music-streaming wars are treating Drake well. He did with this album, however, manage to go "double platinum without features", which J. Cole fans and Internet trolls remind the world each day. By the start of ’96, he had enough material to put out hip-hop’s first double album, dropping his fourth studio album (and first for Death Row Records), All Eyez on Me in February. Found inside – Page 90"No Way Out" later earned Combs a Grammy award for Best Rap Album of the Year. ... A third Notorious B.EG. album, "Born Again," now double-platinum, ... Da Brat has received two Grammy Award nominations. The project is A Boogie’s lone No. Lil Baby becomes the first artist to go double platinum in 2020. He changed the game by introducing multisyllabic rhymes and a slew of new slangs. entered Soundscan at #1 and was certified RIAA gold, fueled by the RIAA platinum “No Lie”, the double-platinum “Birthday Song”, and double-platinum “I’m Different.” “Mercy” was subsequently a Grammy nominee for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance, while B.O.A.T.S. The album served as one of Shakur's most positively reviewed albums, with many calling it the magnum opus of his career, and is considered one of the greatest and most influential hip hop albums of all time. A multi-faceted and idiosyncratic work, it was both critically adored (winning Best Rap Album at the 2005 Grammy awards) and packed with enough pop nous to go double-platinum in sales. Pop Smoke's "Dior" was nominated for a Grammy this year although this latest project was snubbed from the Best Rap Album category.This was a … The numbers in the tables are in terms of "units", where a unit represents one sale or one shipment of a given medium. Found inside – Page 40Sales of the album now stand at more than 600,000 units in Poland. ... Shaggy's Hotshot (MCA/Universal) also goes double-platinum, after winning its first ... Da Brat begun her career in 1992, her debut album Funkdafied (1994) sold one million copies and entered the rap albums chart at number 1. The RIAA platinum hip-hop landmark featured “It Ain’t Hard To Tell,” “The World Is Yours,” and “One.” 1996 brought the breakthrough double-platinum It Was Written (#1 R&B for 7 weeks, #1 pop for 4 weeks), with his first major crossover singles “Street Dreams” and … A smooth, laid-back flow and positive messages are the hallmarks that make Rakim half of one of rap's greatest duos and a contender for the ultimate crown in hip-hop. Found insideThe album has been certified double platinum. ... He won four of them, including Best Rap Album for Graduation and Best Rap Solo Performance for "Stronger" ... Before Rakim, hip-hop was all about nursery rhymes. It sounds like something that could only be topped by “going platinum,” and that’s actually the next tier up when it comes to record-industry measurements. Beginning to rap at the age of 9, Ludacris (born Christopher Brian Bridges) drew on a wide range of musical influences supplied by his father, who steeped his son in many genres of popular music. was nominated for Best Rap Album. Found inside – Page 13The new album follows his double- platinum "Golden Road," which remains in the ... West's noms include favorite rap/hip- hop artist and favorite new artist, ... Found inside – Page 2801990] (certified 7/13/90] first 10 Geld Rap Albums. ... 1987} (double platinum. first certified 8/11/87] Crushin'—Fat Boys (Tin Pan Apple. 198?} With sales like these, Drake can't possibly have any woes left. Found inside – Page 40“Brenda's Got a Baby” made it to number three on the rap charts. ... For two million copies sold, an album gets double platinum status. N.W.A (an abbreviation ofN*ggaz Wit Attitudes) was an American hip hop group from Compton, California. The album’s debut was the most successful for a female rapper at that time. Found insideThe soundtrack eventually went Double Platinum and won the Soundtrack of The ... JohnnyJ recorded and released his debut rap album I Gotta Be Me in 1994, ... Dangerous set a new bar across all streaming platforms. Found insideChristian rap emerged in the early 1980s: MC Sweet's Gospel Beat: Jesus ... their more rap-oriented albums—went double platinum and reached number 16 on the ... Eminem’s "Berzerk" and Drake’s "Hold On, We're Going Home" have both gone platinum, while Jay Z’s "Holy Grail" has gone double platinum. While not as anticipated as his debut, Snoop’s sophomore album Tha Doggfather (1996) still managed to go double platinum in America.Musically it was a departure from Doggystyle, specifically the absence of Dr. Dre which caused the album to sound vastly different.. 3. Found inside – Page 153Twice.) * These are actual ideas suggested by clients. From pit bulls with human heads to ... FIRST TEN PLATINUM RAP ALBUMS 1 . Raising Hell— Run-D.M.C. ... Found inside – Page 101And Beyond" was also certified platinum and double-platinum, which brings Foreigner's cumulative album sales to 31 million. Greatest-hits sets by Styx (A&M) ... Found inside – Page 2732... It also reached number two and double platinum in New Zealand and number two in Norway.[56][57][58] . Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. And it went double platinum… 38× Platinum ‡ 1982 Michael Jackson: Thriller: Epic: 33,000,000 33× Platinum ‡ 1976 Eagles: Hotel California: Asylum: 26,000,000 26× Platinum ‡ 1980 AC/DC: Back in Black: Atlantic: 25,000,000 25× Platinum ‡ 1971 Led Zeppelin: Untitled (“Led Zeppelin IV”) Atlantic: 23,000,000 23× Platinum 1977 Fleetwood Mac: Rumours: Warner Bros. 20,000,000 20× Platinum 1 since M.C. A Gold record is a single or album that sells 500,000 units (records, tapes or compact discs). Born 2 Rap follows up after the 2016 album release, 1992. 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