The Weeknd

The Weeknd’s ‘The Hills’ Certified Diamond

Published: Saturday 29th Jun 2019 by Rashad

As fans anxiously await new music from The Weeknd (born Abel Tesfaye), the singer-songwriter has much to celebrate as his 2015 hit single, ‘The Hills,’ just recently crossed the Recording Industry of America Association’s threshold for Diamond certification.

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On June 28, the Canadian hitmaker became the 23rd artist in history to earn a Diamond certification for a song as his hit ‘The Hills’ – produced by Max Martin – recently exceeded sales equivalence of 10 million units (an effort aided by its whopping 1.3 billion streams on Youtube).

The second single from Tesfaye’s chart-topping ‘Beauty in the Madness’ album (2015), ‘Hills’ topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six consecutive weeks in the year of its release.

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