Alicia Keys‘ 2007 hit “No One” becomes her first solo diamond-certified record by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she announced on Friday (Aug. 16).
“A song that is there for us when we need it most. Singing this song, together, all over the world is magical each and every time. Thank you for loving ‘No One’ the way you do! Keep singing at the top of your lungs!!! We’re diamond status babbyyyyy!!!!!” she wrote on Instagram while sharing a snippet of the music video.
The news arrives one month after Keys earned her first-ever diamond-certified record with her and Jay-Z‘s “Empire State of Mind,” which the duo performed in their NYC hometown for the first time since 2016 at the 2024 Tony Awards. “Still going Diamond in 2024,” commented her husband Swizz Beatz. “Congrats this is the 2nd one in the past month let’s goooooooooo.”
“No One” was the lead single from Keys’ third studio album As I Am, and it spent five weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 1 on three more charts: Pop Airplay (five weeks), Mainstream Top 40 Recurrents and Rhythmic Airplay. “No One” won best R&B song and best female R&B vocal performance at the 2008 Grammy Awards.
Keys was recently featured on Billboard‘s 25 Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century: Honorable Mentions list: “It’s hard to imagine the first half of the 2000s without her Songs in A Minor and The Diary of Alicia Keys and their respective show-stopping singles; subsequent albums squeezed out singalongs for the heavy-hearted for well into the next decade, as she upped her always-welcome presence in film and TV.”
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