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Michael Jackson\u2019s Off the Wall is now certified diamond by the RIAA, marking 10 million units in the U.S.. It’s his third album to hit the milestone. VARIOUS, VARIOUS – JUNE 25: Michael Jackson performs in concert circa 1988. (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/WireImage)<\/p>\n
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Michael Jackson\u2019s<\/a> catalog is packed with not only bestselling hit songs, but also massively successful albums. Of course, Thriller leads everything he ever released, and it stands out as the top-selling full-length \u2014 that\u2019s not a compilation \u2014 in U.S. history. Another one of Jackson\u2019s most popular sets earns a coveted honor this week, as the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) adds a new platinum plaque to its total.<\/p>\n Off the Wall Goes Diamond<\/p>\n Off the Wall is now a diamond-selling album, as the RIAA has upgraded the set to 10-times platinum. That means that the project has moved 10 million equivalent units in the U.S. between pure sales and streams.<\/p>\n Years After Off the Wall\u2019s Last Certification<\/p>\n The upgrade comes years after the project was last recognized. Off the Wall was certified nine-times platinum in February 2021. The beloved effort originally went platinum in December 1979, not long after release.<\/p>\n Three Diamond Studio Albums For Jackson<\/p>\n Now that Off the Wall has been elevated to diamond status, Jackson claims three such winners. Thriller remains the runaway leader at 34-times platinum. Bad hit diamond in 2017 and advanced to 11-times platinum in 2021.<\/p>\n Two More Sets Are Closing In<\/p>\n Two additional titles from Jackson sit within striking distance of going diamond. Both HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I and Dangerous are steady at eight-times platinum. Neither has earned a new award in more than half a decade, but both continue to sell and stream steadily, so at some point, the two of them will likely cross the 10 million-unit mark.<\/p>\n Off the Wall: Charts And Singles<\/p>\n Off the Wall helped solidify Jackson\u2019s status as one of the biggest stars in music, and also a certified and reliable hitmaker. The project produced four top 10s on the Hot 100 including a pair of No. 1s in “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough”<\/a> and \u201cRock with You.\u201d<\/a> Both \u201cOff the Wall\u201d and “She’s Out of My Life”<\/a> peaked at No. 10.<\/p>\n His fifth solo full-length, Off the Wall brought Jackson to a then-career high of No. 3 on the Billboard 200. He\u2019d eclipse that not much later when Thriller arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson\u2019s Off the Wall is now certified diamond by the RIAA, marking 10 million units in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[65357,49,48,65359,75,65358,65354,65360,65351,65352,341,65355,65353,65356],"class_list":["post-116879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bad-diamond-album","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dangerous-album-riaa","tag-entertainment","tag-history-album-sales","tag-michael-jackson-10-million-sales","tag-michael-jackson-album-certifications","tag-michael-jackson-diamond-album","tag-michael-jackson-off-the-wall-certification","tag-music","tag-off-the-wall-platinum","tag-off-the-wall-riaa-diamond","tag-thriller-sales-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}