JAY-Z has racked up his third diamond plaque, this time attaining the feat along with his Alicia Keys collab “Empire State of Thoughts.”
The RIAA introduced the information on Wednesday (July 24), celebrating the track reaching the equal of 10 million gross sales within the U.S.
The honour marks Keys’ first diamond plaque, and Hova’s third, following receiving ones final yr for his Kanye West collaboration “N-ggas In Paris” and the Rihanna duet “Umbrella.”
“N-ggas In Paris” had been caught on 9x-platinum since Might 2022 however crossed over the elusive diamond mark in 2023, greater than a decade after its preliminary 2011 launch.
“Empire State of Thoughts” was first launched in 2009 and seems on JAY’s The Blueprint 3 album.
Congratulations @sc@aliciakeys on this really effectively deserved RIAA Diamond certification for #EmpireStateOfMind 💎🗽 @RocNationhttps://t.co/zwKDlCwV04
— RIAA (@RIAA) July 24, 2024
This isn’t the primary excessive watermark Alicia and Hova have achieved collectively.
Final month, the “If I Ain’t Obtained You” singer took to Instagram to have a good time the track hitting one billion streams and shared a black and white clip of her and JAY-Z standing in entrance of vivid lights earlier than epic orchestral music crescendoed.
Keys captioned her publish: “1 Dream. 1 Music. 1 Billion streams [three prayer hand emojis]. Thanks! We love you. What’s subsequent….[eyes emoji, shushing emoji].”
She later took to X (previously Twitter), the place she shared a photograph of two efficiency microphones — one with the preliminary “J,” the opposite labeled “AK.”
Whereas she left the photograph uncaptioned, she tagged CBS and Roc Nation, indicating {that a} shock televised particular could also be within the works. That turned out to be a pre-taped efficiency that aired in the course of the 2024 Tony Awards.
Keys started by performing with the solid of musical Hell’s Kitchen, which is a semi-autobiographical present in regards to the singer’s life rising up in Manhattan within the Nineties.
The “No One” singer was performing her solo model of “Empire State of Thoughts” when she took off into the viewers, with the digicam surprisingly chopping to the rap legend as he carried out a verse from the monitor.
Regardless of the track’s success, it didn’t change everybody’s life for the higher.
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Again in March, Lil Mama opened up about her notorious crashing of the duo’s VMAs efficiency again in 2009. She made it clear that the fallout afterwards left her “harm.”
That’s the confession she made throughout an interview on The Jay Hill Community, whereby she additionally revealed that the next backlash took a critical toll on her psychological well being.
“Yeah, to start with, I used to be harm,” she started. “Tyrese known as my cellphone as quickly as I acquired residence. He was like, ‘Bro, you didn’t inform me you was performing!’ To start with, my coronary heart is racing. I’m already mad embarrassed.
“I needed to take care of Ed Lover on the radio within the morning, Wendy Williams, Angie Martinez, who talked to JAY, and he was identical to, ‘Yeah, you recognize. I didn’t prefer it.’ He was so offended, and I used to be simply making an attempt my finest to do all the things I may do. After some time, I used to be like, ‘Forgive your self, bro. Transfer ahead.’”
