Rihanna extends her membership within the Recording Trade Affiliation of America’s (RIAA) diamond membership.
Her 2011 single “We Discovered Love,” that includes Calvin Harris, who wrote and produced the monitor, has been licensed diamond with greater than 10 million equal items offered.
This new RIAA achievement marks Rihanna’s second diamond award, as her 2010 collaboration “Love The Approach You Lie” with Eminem handed this mark in Could 2013. It’s now 13x multi-platinum, her best-selling single up to now.
“We Discovered Love” is Rihanna’s first licensed diamond single as a lead artist. She has three different songs vying for this coveted honor, together with “Keep,” “Work,” and most lately, “Wanted Me.” Every of the latter three tunes has gross sales of 9 million equal items.
“We Discovered Love,” lifted from Rihanna’s Discuss That Discuss album, peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart. It’s her longest-reigning single on the principle singles chart, topping for 10 weeks, starting Nov. 12, 2011.
Moreover, “We Discovered Love” topped the next Billboard charts: Pop Airplay (eight weeks at No.1); Dance Membership Songs (one week at No. 1); and Rhythmic Airplay (9 weeks at No. 1).
On the fifty fifth Grammy Awards in 2013, “We Discovered Love” gained Finest Brief Kind Music Video. It was her first win on this class.
Talking of the video for “We Discovered Love,” it has amassed multiple billion views on YouTube. The identical goes for the studio model on Spotify, with an extra of 1.1 billion listens.
Final month, Rihanna’s “Solely Woman (Within the World)” topped the 7x multi-platinum mark, turning into her most licensed tune from her Loud album.
Rihanna has earned a number of different RIAA accolades this yr, together with a platinum award for “Carry Me Up,” an Oscar-nominated tune from Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually.
In different Rihanna-related information, Concord Samuels, the album producer of Fantasia’s 2013 album Aspect Results of You, shared how “In Deep” was initially meant for Ri Ri.
“It was undoubtedly a non secular expertise, particularly when [Fantasia] sang it. Though it was for Rihanna, Fantasia introduced a complete new life to it. To not sound churchy, however she made it a worship tune. I really feel like Maverick Metropolis can do this tune proper now,” Samuels shared.
Stream Rihanna’s “We Discovered Love” that includes Calvin Harris beneath.
