{"id":225985,"date":"2026-01-23T18:20:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/01\/23\/sean-paul-scores-first-riaa-diamond-certification-with-this-smash-collaboration-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:20:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:20:51","slug":"sean-paul-scores-first-riaa-diamond-certification-with-this-smash-collaboration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/01\/23\/sean-paul-scores-first-riaa-diamond-certification-with-this-smash-collaboration-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Paul Scores First RIAA Diamond Certification With This Smash\u00a0Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tSean Paul<\/a>\u2018s list of achievements just got longer. \u201cCheap Thrills,\u201d his smash 2016 collaboration with Sia<\/a>, was certified 11 times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on Thursday, marking more than 11 million units \u2014 his first song to achieve the diamond-plus feat.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe voice behind iconic dancehall crossover hits like \u201cTemperature,\u201d \u201cGet Busy\u201d and \u201cGimme the Light,\u201d Sean Paul exploded onto the Billboard<\/em> charts in 2000, kicking off more than two decades of cross-genre success. 2002\u2019s Dutty Rock<\/em> earned him the Grammy for best reggae album and became his first of two top 10 projects on the Billboard 200<\/a>. Over on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>, Paul has notched four No. 1 singles from 10 top 10 hits, including the four-week chart-topper \u201cCheap Thrills.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tSia initially released \u201cTrills\u201d on her 2015 This Is Acting<\/em> LP, and the Kingston-bred artist hopped on a remix at the top of 2016. Tapping into the then-dominant \u201ctropical pop\u201d sound, Paul\u2019s remix helped the song conquer top 40, topping the all-genre Radio Songs chart for eight weeks \u2014 his longest stay atop the ranking since his featured turn on Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>\u2018s 2003 smash \u201cBaby Boy\u201d (nine weeks). \u201cCheap Thrills\u201d eventually finished at No. 66 on the 2010s Decade-End Billboard Hot 100 and earned both artists their first (and only) Grammy nods in the best pop\/duo group performance category.<\/p>\n

\n\tNotably, \u201cThrills,\u201d which marked Paul\u2019s first Hot 100 chart-topper in more than a decade, is Sia\u2019s second single to earn a diamond certification from the RIAA. In 2024, \u201cChandelier\u201d reached diamond status exactly a decade post-release, just like \u201cTrills.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOf course, Sean Paul has kept busy over the past decade, releasing two consecutive Grammy-nominated albums \u2014 2021\u2019s Live n Livin<\/em> and 2022\u2019s Scorcha<\/em> \u2014 that both hit the top 10 of Reggae Albums at Nos. 9 and 6, respectively. Last month, he co-headlined the Jamaica Strong benefit concert<\/a> for Hurricane Melissa relief, which graced New York\u2019s UBS Arena<\/a> on Dec. 12. The day of the fundraiser, he released an uplifting anthem titled \u201cFaith We A Keep.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tConsidering the uptick in 2016 nostalgia across social media, it\u2019s only fitting that one of that year\u2019s biggest hits is honored for its success.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sean Paul\u2018s list of achievements just got longer. \u201cCheap Thrills,\u201d his smash 2016 collaboration with Sia, was certified 11 times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on Thursday, marking more than 11 million units \u2014 his first song to achieve the diamond-plus feat. The voice behind iconic dancehall crossover hits like \u201cTemperature,\u201d \u201cGet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}