As of August 3rd, 2023:

From 1999-2015: 7 songs certified Diamond

From December 2016 to August 2023: 113 songs certified Diamond

Thats crazy

No one’s saying it’s easy, but anyone saying it’s not easier to do in the streaming era is flat out incorrect

No, it isn't. It's still just as hard, you just refuse to acknowledge that. Same way y'all think it's easy getting an album to debut with 500M+ US streams and you think it's easy getting 7+ top 10 hits off an album. You see Drake do it consistently so you imagine it must be easy, but is isn't easy. Same way Taylor doing 1M+ with 6 albums isn't easy. Because one artist it a few select artists can do something doesn't make it easy.

The Beatles were scoring #1 hits like candy back in the 50s and the 60s. Doesn't mean it was easy to do. They could just do it more expressly than everyone else. Same goes for all the legends with 10+ #1 hits who did it in their time. They did it, not because it was easy, but because they were the biggest artists of their respective eras.

I know it's impossible for y'all to do but it won't kill you to just give Drake/other artists their props without trying to put an asterisk beside their accomplishments.

If what Drake was doing was so easy to do, everyone would be doing it. It isn't easy.

By 2035/2040, with these current rules, it’s very possible that there will be over 500 Diamond certified songs.

RIAA is definitely either going to add a higher Certification or updates the rules for Diamond eligibility

25x Platinum - Emerald certification

It’s not even about Drake

There were 113 songs certified Diamond from December 2016 to August 2023, opposed to a total of seven songs certified Diamond from 1999 to 2015.

This isn’t directed at Drake whatsoever

Yeah I think it’s most likely they’ll just add a higher Certification. Because if they change the minimum units for Diamond to a higher figure, it’ll be kinda unfair for songs that reach 10 million units and won’t be Diamond eligible

Also, if this were to happen, I wonder what the first Emerald song would be

Either Uptown Funk (elegible for 2x Diamond) or Sunflower

It's many albums/singles from the 80s/90s/early 2000s which are yet to have their certifications updated. Doesn't mean dozens of songs from that time haven't crossed the Diamond mark — many simply haven't been updated yet.

i doubt they'll care to change anything now hits don't really exist, i can't see music fixing itself

Yeah, but the point is that before streaming, most of them weren’t even eligible to be certified Diamond.

To me I would just assume that the RIAA would want their highest award to remain Uber-prestigious, also the industry always updates their rules to reflect the times and technological advancements. I would be shocked if they don’t change or tweak their Certification rules whatsoever within the next decade

And the same can be said for how hard it is get a Diamond album in the streaming era. Only 1 album released since 2015 has gone Diamond and that's Adele's 25. Scorpion and Views are two of the biggest albums of the streaming era and it'll take Views at least 10 years to reach Diamond and it'll take Scorpion at least 8 years to do the same. For comparison, Usher's Confessions album did 8M units in 9 months and sold over 10M units in a year and that album dropped in 2004. Taylor Swift's Midnights album debuted with 1.5M units and just crossed 6M units after 53 weeks, and that's one of the biggest albums ever.

A bulk of the 100+ songs that have been certified Diamond since 2015 weren't actually released in the streaming era, they just reached the Diamond mark in the streaming era, but the bulk of their sold units were digital sales. It still doesn't make it easy to do. Nothing is easy.

only 1 album since 2015 to be certified diamond is completely fine to me lol

eventually other albums will be certified too

I done flew one out to Spain to be in my domain and Audemars’d the b****

thriller is everywhere this year

the mall, parties, s*** even hold music

cant escape it

New mastery camo. Gonna have albums certified 6x Dark Matter

Why would RIAA feel the need to make diamonds harder because there are way more of them now? It really doesn’t bother them one way or the other. In fact, labels need to pay up for updates and certifications so they actually make more money from this.