In reply to Career Ender.

Usher has a diamond album from TWELVE years ago. The album that followed struggled to go merely platinum and these days he struggles to go Gold. It's hilarious that someone would play the "diamond" card to justify him when his immediate dissent after it was startling. Diamond albums are rare and not likely to happen a second time, but most artists who have one were able to use it to better cushion themselves for a while after that inevitable peak. Usher didn't. He has done a very poor job of readjusting and maintaining after his peak. Confessions backfired on him. He lost his sense of self and is now basically a run-on sentence.