Dr. Dre boldly asked on his 1999 single, “Forgot About Dre”: “Give me one more platinum plaque / And fuck Rap / You can have it back.” A decade later, those plaques are harder to come by, and Rap is still waiting to give it to Dre. Still, a few key artists in Hip Hop managed to score multi-platinum singles, gold albums, and several other framed symbols of their success.
HipHopDX presents this breakdown to you, featuring first-timers B.o.B., Wiz Khalifa and Waka Flocka Flame, along with superstars like Eminem, Nelly and Lil Wayne. Sales may be down, but these artists are up – and the spotlight…well, Rap has it back.
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UUUUUUH Eminem had two singles in the top where are those? Love the way you lie 4x, not afraid 3x. Love the way you lie was the best selling hip hop single this year.
UUUH YEAH! How the fuck writes this shit???? they always wrong with the facts…
According to the RIAA website (http://www.riaa.com), neither “Not Afraid” or “Love the Way You Lie” went Platinum-or even Gold for that matter-in 2010. The album may have killed, but his Singles didn’t sell enough to reach Gold or Platinum status in the US.
well, they went 4 and 3x platinum in australia, not the US
Ohhh okay, my bad
Zane you were initially right because Love the Way You Lie is 4x plat and Not Afraid is 3x plat.
wtf i’m tried all of this em, drake, nicki, and kanye dick riding. The only 1 of those albums that actually appeal to a real head is Kanye’s and that’s only a few tracks thanks to RZA.
Not Afraid 3 x Plat
Love The Way You Lie 4 x Plat
fix up the data man
“Love The Way You Lie” was x4 Platinum in Australia, not the US. We should have indicated specifically which figures were US and which were worldwide. The Singles sales figures we’re displaying here at US-specific.
Actually Love the Way You Lie is 4X platinum in the U.S. becuase it sold 4.25 million in the U.S. look at (If you don’t believe me). http://www.411mania.com/music/news/168881/Eminem-Has-The-Top-Selling-Album-Of-2010.htm
Mike, Your an idiot man. Why are you on a hip hop website when you dont know shit about hip hop. Not Afriad and Love the way you Lie were both triple platnuim. Love then way you lie sold over 300,000 copies for almost 8 straight weeks. Not Afriad had the the highest debut hip hop single since pdiddy fag in the 90’s. Both songs are 3X plat bitch.
Well, I’m on here because I’m the Art Director at HipHopDX and I illustrated the graphic using the research our editorial team provided.
According to the RIAA, the most recent plaque-earning single Eminem released was “When I’m Gone,” which was certified Gold on 6/14/2006.
Given the dispute, our research team’s spending the day double-checking our facts, but we’re more than happy to investigate any documentation if anyone has a link or document showing Eminem had a Gold or Platinum single in the US in 2010.
Hi Facts,
I’ve been answering questions here because I’m the Art Director at HipHopDX and I illustrated the graphic using the research our editorial team provided.
According to the RIAA, the most recent plaque-earning single Eminem released was “When I’m Gone,” which was certified Gold on 6/14/2006.
Given the dispute, our research team’s spending the day double-checking our facts to make sure that we’re aren’t giving you guys any bad information, and we’re more than happy to investigate any documentation if anyone has a link or document showing Eminem had a Gold or Platinum single in the US in 2010.
Love the Way you Lie and Not Afraid have both reached number 1 and sold well over three million copies. You need to update your sources. I have three sources that confirm eminem went triple platinum on both singles. You might want to start with the Billboard. XXL also cited a quote from the RIAA confirming this. You must not pay attention to hiphop. But thats okay, your the art guy. Your editorial staff is fucking retarded
False,
Can you forward me any of the links you mentioned, either the XXL article that cites the RIAA, or the publicly-accessible Billboard link (alot of their content is behind a subscription wall)?
I’ll forward it on to Editorial so they can take a look. If we’re wrong on this, I obviously want to make a correction and get the correct data up on our infographic.
Thanks False!
Mike, Love the Way You Lie is 3x plat and Not Afraid is now 3x platinum in the U.S., while Love the Way You Lie sold 8.1 mln. worldwide. RIAA is wrong for many occasions because they say Eminem sold around 46 mln. albums in his career, while Interscope said they have scanned over 92 million, so THE RIAA is a bunch of junk in my opnion. Love the WAy You Lie as of now has 249 million Youtube views and Not Afraid has 176, so how couldn’t they have reached gold. By the way, THE RIAA didn’t even certify Recovery platinum yet when it sold 3.35 million domestic copies; whilst, Taylor Swift has been certified 3x plat when she just passed 2x on Speak Now (album), so there may be money involved.
Michael,
I’ve just checked RIAA, yes they there is not shown that Em 2 tracks received platinum status. But there is again no information regarding Em Recovery receiving platinum status. So please recheck by yourself. And if you put Wayne Rebirth, then also put 50 cent BISD it is also GOLD
Correct @ Eciti because I’ve checked it too, so the RIAA is full of itself and I would rather listen to what Nielson Soundscan has to say about the sales of music. Nielson Soundscan is more correct and should be the authority in calculating music sales, not RIAA. So Michael, don’t downtalk about Eminem’s most successful songs and please look at some sites (credible ones) before you come to conclusions pfffffff. Just wait ’til Nielson Soundcan will release the sales for the year of 2010 and post the results because we have a week left.
Thanks for the updates Eciti & EminemFan.
I’ve passed the info along to our Editorial Department (the guys who research all of this type of content) and we’ll be sure to cross-reference all of the RIAA’s information with what Nielson Soundscan has reported.
I’ve also dropped a note to the staff indicating we’ll be doing a much better job of specifically citing our sources and the timeframes with which we conducted our research, so everyone who’s following along can easily go and see the documentation we were working from.
Thanks for the great feedback!
Luda was featured on both Taio Cruz’s 2X Platinum “Break Your Heart” and Bieber’s 2X Platinum “Baby”. Even if those were pop singles, Luda has definitely had the biggest year in Hip Hop as far as singles go. B.o.B. coming in a close second. Luda’s new collabo with Enrique Iglesias is about to hit Gold as well after 3 weeks on the charts.
*cue inspirational music* who knows if eminem went platinum or not? The point is, compared to all the other rappers in the game, em had the best year. So what if mike’s source didn’t say he went 4x platinum? Even thought emimem may not be #1 on the interwebz, he’s #1 in our opinions. and us the people are the ones who have a say in what’s good and what’s bad. So even though the charts don’t say em is great, we do, and that’s all that matters. *inspirational music ends; standing ovation*
top selling 5 albums of 2010… YM own 3 of those 5 spots. the other 2 spots r owned by em and ye. everybody show em and ye love. so i guess good music does sell. how can YM have all bad music and still own the other 3 positions… things that make you go mmmmmmmmm
aint nobody else doing shit and none of them went plat and they wont that just means that they were good not great see they took off in the beginnig but when u get exposed its over these kats are fake ass fucc
One thing about these hip hop websites they never get anything accurate wheres love the way u lie,wheres not afraid, what happenend to the snoop dogg/katy perry record. HIPHOPDX never getS anything accurate.
dis fox news says eninem did go plat with love the way you lie this is wack dog!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Here’s one for you…
According to the scale, one record = 250k albums sold…the graphic is missing one record for Eminem’s Recovery
WOW. These awards literally don’t mean shit.
Fans are stupid when it comes to music, especially hip hop. I can give two shits about who sells more.
They only missed a few……….lol
Artist
YOUNG MONEY Title
BEDROCK Certification Date
03/26/2010 Label
UNIVERSAL MOTOWN
Award Description
PLATINUM Format
SINGLE Category
SOLO Type
MT
Artist
YOUNG MONEY Title
WE ARE YOUNG MONEY Certification Date
05/24/2010 Label
UNIVERSAL MOTOWN
Award Description
GOLD Format
ALBUM Category
SOLO Type
ST
Artist
YOUNG MONEY Title
EVERY GIRL Certification Date
07/09/2010 Label
UNIVERSAL RECORDS
Award Description
GOLD Format
Artist
YOUNG JEEZY Title
PUT ON Certification Date
04/09/2010 Label
DEF JAM
Award Description
PLATINUM Format
Artist
WAKA FLOCKA FLAME Title
NO HANDS (FEAT. ROSCOE DASH AND WALE) Certification Date
11/24/2010 Label
ASYLUM/WBR/1017 BRICK
Award Description
GOLD Format
SINGLE Category
SOLO Type
DI
Artist
WEST, KANYE Title
LOVE LOCKDOWN Certification Date
08/18/2010 Label
DEF JAM
Award Description
3.00x MULTI PLATINUM Format
SINGLE
Artist
TWISTA Title
WETTER Certification Date
09/02/2010 Label
GET MONEY GANG ENTERTAINMENT
Award Description
GOLD Format
SINGLE Artist
NEW BOYZ Title
TIE ME DOWN (FEAT RAY J) Certification Date
03/30/2010 Label
ASYLUM/SHOTTY
Award Description
PLATINUM Format
SINGLE
Artist
KID CUDI Title
MAN ON THE MOON: THE END OF DAY Certification Date
11/30/2010 Label
UNIVERSAL MOTOWN
Award Description
GOLD Format
ALBUM
and the list goes on and on ……
Yeah they forgot heaps
The only thing you listed that counts is the Waka Flocka joint, all those other
records did not come out this year. Put
on? thats 07-08 Love Lockdown was def 08
that young money stuff was 09 twista
wetta was 09, this post is bout music that dropped this year
Looking at these numbers are more interesting when you bout to drop an album ya self.
Im have to peep that Nikki album and see what they gobbling up.
She sounded like she bit my ish on that keisha cole song she featured on. Is that on her album too.
Cash money knows what they doing tho. Drake and Nikki put up good numbers.
I refuse to believe that Good music cant sell tho.
I dont know why Jay-z or somebody like him doesnt start their own radio station.
Peter Tosh RIP from the wailers was about start his own radio station in Jamaica in the 80’s before he got killed.
Its sad that we the artist are so removed from the power structure of music.
Why should these BS Stations dictate their whack Influnce on the massess.
They dont want me to blow up.
http://www.soundclick.com/showtimeny
yeah drake and the fake bitch put up allright numbers but not like cashmoney or these fake ass fans thought and the fake bitch might as well call it a day cause Kim murderd that ass
“IF YOU GO PLATINUM IT’S GOT NOTHIN TO DO WITH LICK , IT JUST MEANS THAT A MILLION PEOPLE ARE STUPID AS FUCK” (Immortal Technique)
But In This Brainwashed Place Of America Its More Like 300 Million People Are Stupid As Fuck …. HAHAHAHAHA Drake Dude Is Soft Like Goo
nah, it aint cuz ppl R dumb, its that the elite look out 4 the certian artist and make sure they sell. no matter if noone buy SHIT! evry one on the hood download that shit or 1 person buy a cd for everyone 2 burn, artist aint maikin $$ off ppl buyin their shit, they make money decieving the ppl so they can stay paid by the elite. haha get ya spiritual game up…
@ allrealnesshere
you’re an idiot…get ya education game up…bet u cant prove one sentence of what u say…ur a fucking sheep…
seriously post ONE link of REAL proof to what u say…u cant because it doesn’t exist…why dont you study business and marketing, or maybe even some politics before you say retarded, weightless shit like that…
the uneducated love using the internet to spread bullshit…the more people that start to believe the kind of dumb shit u say, the more real it becomes to the dumb motherfuckers repeating it…you are perpetuating bullshit…STOP IT
To all you Major Hip Hop fans make sure you check out Rising Icon Of year 2011 Song
The Gift- Sex Music
arguably the hottest song on youtube now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bizW8Pakug
A label has to certify a song its not done automatically, so a song could sell 5 million and not be certified gold. Beamer,Benz gold plaque…. Hot 100 peak 40 ish, Itunes mid 20s sold more than Love the way you lie a month long no1 on both charts no chance
u dont know shit dumb ass
gold is 500k you dumb fuck. platinum is 1million.
Damn em always kill the game. New Shady artiste?..idk chek him out
http://www.myspace.com/cflotentative
“ems” is very dope crew of boston … this track is heavy !!!
LOL Drake soft like goo
FIRST NAME WALKING, LAST NAME NEVER.
are you dumb. its LAST NAME WALKING, FIRST NAME NEVER.
nikolodean wheelchair ass jew
Such haters man,. Drake is tight, sick flow,. nice vocab, ya’ll want this dude to come out on some phoney Wu shit?? he aint in the streets,. he never was,. he aint tated up,. no dreds,. nuttin,. this dude is 100% real deal .. ya’ll are so narrow minded.
Cash Money Records
B.O.B. made some veterans and some newcomers look like chumps…. what happened to the “only people moving units is em, pimp, and us?” Em still moving, but uh… Nelly album did horrible numbers. and Wayne sold more records than Rick Ross…. from prison! you can’t lie Ross owned the mixtape scene this year. I hope that Sean John endorsement helps cuz if not this is a bad look
Rick Ross teflon Don was a good album, same with Kanye. Didn’t like the other albums so much, weak lyrics/ too pop. Can’t wait for Dre’s Detox and Game’s R.E.D. Album.
Game’s album is by a poll the most anticipated album of the year and if you listen to purp & patron u can see he has grown in his music.