A worldwide headliner, he has shut down festivals ranging from Coachella to Lollapalooza. The 6 track project marked his third consecutive #1 bow on the Billboard Top 200, went platinum, and attracted widespread critical acclaim. In 2018, his influence continued to expand with My Dear Melancholy. Not to mention, “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)” received an Academy® Award nomination for “Best Original Song.” That stratospheric rise continued as 2016’s Starboy went double-platinum, captured #1 in 90 countries, and shattered the global streaming record at the time in under a week. sales in excess of 3 million, and 20 RIAA certifications from tracks alone, including “The Hills” (9x-platinum), “Can’t Feel My Face” (6x-platinum), “Often” (3x-platinum), “In The Night” (platinum), and “Acquainted” (platinum).
This 2015 opus notably achieved a GRAMMY® Award in the category of "Best Urban Contemporary Album," a triple-platinum certification from the RIAA for U.S. So yea getting a Diamond single nowadays means jack shit, at least Diamond albums still mean a lot. As of today there are 30 diamond certified singles and reportedly there are 62 certified+eligible for Diamond or more. Two years later, Beauty Behind The Madness represented a major milestone. The first diamond single was back in 1997, the second one was in 2013 i believe. The Weeknd is the only artist to earn a 2X multi-Platinum album released in the last year that also includes four Platinum (or higher. Released via his own visionary XO collective and Republic Records, 2012’s double-platinum Trilogy collated three breakout mixtapes-House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence-into his first chart-topping collection followed by the platinum Kiss Land in 2013. Liked by worldstar and 787,595 others theweeknd RIAA recently recognized the unparalleled success of The Weeknd’s album Starboy as well as the artist’s prolific career notching11 Platinum or multi-Platinum certified songs during the last five years. As a result, the multi-platinum two-time GRAMMY® Award winner has emerged as one of the most successful and significant artists of the 21st century. Filtering R&B, pop, and hip-hop through an ambitious widescreen lens, The Weeknd quietly took over popular music and culture on his own terms.