Eminem Earns Two Digital Diamond Awards

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Eminem is the only artist in The Recoding Industry Association of Amwerica (RIAA) Gold & Platinum history to earn two Digital Diamond Awards. Eminem has four total Diamond Awards: two Digital Diamonds for songs "Not Afraid" (Shady, Aftermath/Interscope 2010) and "Love The Way You Lie" (Aftermath/Interscope, 2011) featuring Rihanna, and two Diamond Awards for albums "The Marshall Mathers LP" (Aftermath/Interscope, 2000) and "The Eminem Show" (Aftermath/Interscope, 2002).

RIAA has only awarded 10 Diamond hip hop titles and four of those titles are Eminem's. The other six are: 2 Pac's "All Eyez on Me" (a996) and "Greatest Hits" (1998), Hammer's "Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em" (1990), Notorious B.I.G.'s "Life After Death" (1997), Beastie Boys' "Licensed To Ill" (1986) and Outkast's "SpeakerBoxx/The Love Below" (2003).