Chris Brown, The Weeknd, and Usher are easily the three most successful Black male singer singles artists of the century.
While Chris sits in the record books of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for being the first male vocalist overall to have 20 multi-Platinum singles, The Weeknd (born Abel Tesfaye) was the first Black male singer to sell over 100 million singles in the U.S. and have 5 Diamond-certified hits.
Recently, Usher became the first Black male to own a Diamond-certified single and album that was released this century.
As if that wasn’t enough to celebrate, he’s joined Brown and Tesfaye in an exclusive RIAA club.
Taking to press earlier this month (as we reported here), the RIAA announced over 30 updates to the certification statuses of some of Ush’s biggest hits.
While the biggest callouts were the Diamond certification of his 2004 smash ‘Yeah‘ and new set of multi-Platinum albums (2010’s ‘Raymond vs. Raymond’ and 2008’s ‘Here I Stand’), another noteworthy mention came courtesy of the number of songs he had elevated to multi-Platinum status.
For context, tunes that reach 2x Platinum or more (meaning they’ve sold the equivalence of at least 2 million in the United States) are deemed “multi-Platinum.”
Among his string of new certifications, songs ‘There Goes My Baby,’ No Limit,’ ‘U Remind Me,’ ‘Hey Daddy,’ and ‘Climax’ were just a few that were lifted to or beyond the 2x Platinum threshold.
Together, the new additions not only bring the 8x GRAMMY winner’s cumulative singles sales to 83.5 million in the United States but also lift his multi-Platinum single count to 16.
The only other male vocalists to have earned as many or more single certifications of that ilk are Brown (20), Justin Bieber (20), Morgan Wallen (18), Luke Bryan (17), Luke Combs (16), and Tesfaye (16).
Chris browns lesser lol
Chris brown doesn’t have many superbowl worthy hits tho. 💯
He definitely does
Name them
You can start with his 17 top 10 hits. He only needs 5 or 6 of those songs to craft an amazing show. But right now people don’t want Chris to reach the height he’s capable of, so it’s not even realistic to be thinking about the Super Bowl.
All you delusional CB fans are ridiculousl. More than majority of Chris sales comes from FREE STREAMING numbers and thousands of features. More than majority of Usher sales comes from PURE SALES and literally 50 fewer songs lol
Usher has 9 huge classic number one mainstream billboard hits from a 15 years prime run. Chris has 2 mainstream billboard number one hits and has gone 17 years without a number one cause nobody actually buys his music. Which is why his last 2 albums each sold less than 10k in pure sales lol
Super Bowl?? Chris doesn’t even sing live without a autotuned mic cause his voice is literally shot. Look at what happened to Alicia Keys for one bad note. Now imagine an entire performance of Chris lip singing or hitting horrible notes with that autotuned mic…
..he seems strange still talking about Nicki Minaj saying he wish he never tapped her b***. So a s*** rich black woman like her. With a hott body .usher was talking crap. .. He’s lost some points after that there’s no way a man huddled in the industry all these years meet a woman that look like Nicki Minaj and doesn’t even think about it . Naw he a foul.
LMAO WTF are you talking about???? Usher never dissed Nicki looks or called her ugly. He was asked who’d win in a Versus battle between Nicki and Lil Kim. And Usher chose Lil Kim because she heavily influenced Nicki style. WHICH IS FACTS
When he picked lil Kim and said he regrets slapping Nicki as$.
It wasn’t a diss to pick Lil Kim, hell everyone has their own opinion. And he said he regrets slapping her asss cause he feels that was taking it too far. It was out of respect NOT disrespect. SMH
Why is the weeknd in the convo? He is NOT rnb. His music like alternative, techno rock. His music has been trash for a decade.
All facts!
Meanwhile BoyzllMen are the highest selling RnB Males of all time. They sold Michael Jackson numbers. Philly baby
PHILLY STAND UP BABY
TAKE USHER PICTURE DOWN.
getting back to usher dissing Nicki. A female certified by Lil Wayne and birdman you mean to tell me usher’s d*** never wanted to bang her…nawwwww he scared of her and intimidated by good rich p****