It’s been five years since Taylor Swift released ‘Shake It Off’ – the chart-topping lead single from her fifth studio album, ‘1989,’ but the project has found itself the topic of much recent chatter. While the bad includes an ongoing lawsuit from 3LW writers who claim the song’s chorus rips off the group’s 2001 hit, ‘Playas Gon’ Play’ (click here to read more on that), good has now come in the form of yet another historic achievement courtesy of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
No stranger to seeing her name penciled in the organization’s history books, the ‘Blank Page’ beauty is now being written in thanks to reports ‘Shake’ has officially been certified Diamond – denoting sales equivalence of 10 million in the United States.
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