Santana, Supernatural (1999, 15x Platinum) Carl Wilson wrote a great book about it that and the Bee Gees and Babs duets may be all you really need to take away from this one.Ĩ5. Celine Dion, Let’s Talk About Love (1997, 10x Platinum)Īn expert collection of Adult Contemporary super-competence, its 65-degree placidness is broken only by the mega-ballad you already knew from Titanic and the song where Celine tries her hand at dancehall for some reason. “Real World” and “Back 2 Good” feel like personal statements in search of coherent theses, “3AM” is strangely lacking in urgency for a song with its title, and “Push” might be the most narratively confused song about domestic abuse ever released.Ĩ6. When Matchbox 20 went supernova in the late ‘90s, it was obvious grunge’s moment was officially over, though what it was being replaced with wasn’t totally clear: Rob Thomas wrote pretty good singles, but what exactly they added up to remained ambiguous. Matchbox 20, Yourself or Someone Like You (1996, 12x Platinum) for not even trying to fudge a “Songs From and Inspired By” collection, but unless you’re really never gonna let go of the late ‘90s, you don’t need this in your life.Ĩ7. No better testament to the world-swallowing phenomenon that was Titanic than the score going Diamond: Celine Dion’s signature love theme “My Heart Will Go On” is the only song here not a James Horner instrumental, and you have to wait until the very end to get to it. Various Artists, Titanic Soundtrack (1997, 11x Platinum) “How You Ever Gonna Know” is one of his most pristine pop/rock efforts, though, and kudos to Garth for being the first country megastar to recognize the potential in swagger-jacking Jimmy Buffett (“Two Pina Coladas”), beating Alan Jackson to the punch by a half-decade.Ĩ8. DRE ALBUMS HAT PROFESSIONALProfessional but slightly pandering, down to its definitively C&W magazine-pose of an album cover. Garth Brooks, Sevens (1997, 10x Platinum) Human Clay at least has some riffs, and “Higher,” a bro hymn as righteous as the sun coming out five minutes before kickoff.Ĩ9. Creed, Human Clay (1999, 11x Platinum)Ĭlose, but not quite the nadir of post-grunge alt-rock it’s often made out to be – that’d probably be Weathered, the Creed album after this one. It gets better from there, but not, like, a lot. Nickelback, All the Right Reasons (2005, 10x Platinum)Īll the Right Reasons opens with the not-misleadingly titled “Follow You Home,” featuring singer Chad Kroeger’s promise that trying to murder him would merely slow down his stalking efforts, and follows that with “Fight for All the Wrong Reasons,” in which Kroeger testifies that he’d leave his toxic relationship of “favorable slavery” if only his girlfriend would stop going down on him. Until then, all we can say about Breathless is that it’s not actively unpleasant to listen to.ĩ1. Some day, a smooth-jazz scholar will make the rounds informing us about why Kenny G was actually a genre innovator and stealth underground influence, shaming us for all the thoughtless jokes made at his expense over the years. (Each album’s year of release and most-recent platinum certification as of Dec. Read our list here, which now also welcomes REO Speedwagon’s Hi Infidelity and Taylor Swift’s Fearless - finally certified Diamond on Aug. That’s not counting compilations - including greatest-hits collections, live albums, and certain soundtracks - unless the set is comprised mainly of contemporary material. (The Dirty Dancing soundtrack, for instance, includes seven contemporary songs and five old ones, so it’s in, but Garth Brooks’ The Ultimate Hits - itself certified diamond earlier this week - has only four new songs in 34 tracks, so it’s out.) It’s still a whopping 92 albums, though, ranging nearly 60 years back to Elvis Presley’s Elvis’ Christmas Album. To honor the exclusive club that Adele joined with her latest sales achievement, we’ve ranked every one of the RIAA-certified diamond albums. Adele's '25' Hits Diamond Status in Less Than a Year
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