Chopard Diamond award
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The Chopard Diamond award, or simply the Diamond award, is a special award of merit given by the World Music Awards
to recording artists who have sold over 100 million albums throughout their career. The World Music Awards were established in 1989. Honors are based entirely on worldwide sales figures in the music industry based on the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
The first Chopard Diamond award was issued in 2002 to British singer-songwriter
Rod Stewart
. He is known to have sold over 100 million records throughout his career. American entertainer Mariah Carey
was honored the following year. She has sold more than 175 million albums, singles and videos worldwide and was named the best-selling female pop artist of the millennium at the 2000 World Music Awards.
Canadian songstress Celine Dion
became the third recipient of the Chopard Diamond award. She was honored in 2004, and had been previously recognized at the World Music Awards as the best selling female artist of all time. According to her record label, Sony Music Entertainment
, Dion has sold over 200 million albums worldwide. The American rock band Bon Jovi
became the successors to Dion and the first group to be acknowledged with the Chopard Diamond award, after being honored in 2005. The band are believed to have sold over 120 million albums worldwide.
Michael Jackson, recognized by Guinness World Records
as the most commercially successful entertainer of all time, became the fifth recipient of the award. With estimated sales as high as 110 million copies worldwide, his 1982 album Thriller
remains the best-selling album of all time. Jackson is reported to have sold as much as 750 million units throughout the world. Following Jackson's acknowledgement in 2006, The Beatles
became the sixth act and second band to be honored with the Chopard Diamond award, after receiving it in 2008. The English group are the biggest-selling band in musical history, with alleged sales of 1 billion units worldwide. Overall, four solo musicians and two bands have received the Chopard Diamond award.
World Music Awards
The World Music Awards is an international awards show founded in 1989 that annually honors recording artists based on worldwide sales figures provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry . John Martinotti is an executive producer and co-founder of the show...
to recording artists who have sold over 100 million albums throughout their career. The World Music Awards were established in 1989. Honors are based entirely on worldwide sales figures in the music industry based on the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
The first Chopard Diamond award was issued in 2002 to British singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....
. He is known to have sold over 100 million records throughout his career. American entertainer Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...
was honored the following year. She has sold more than 175 million albums, singles and videos worldwide and was named the best-selling female pop artist of the millennium at the 2000 World Music Awards.
Canadian songstress Celine Dion
Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
became the third recipient of the Chopard Diamond award. She was honored in 2004, and had been previously recognized at the World Music Awards as the best selling female artist of all time. According to her record label, Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....
, Dion has sold over 200 million albums worldwide. The American rock band Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, as well as current bassist Hugh McDonald...
became the successors to Dion and the first group to be acknowledged with the Chopard Diamond award, after being honored in 2005. The band are believed to have sold over 120 million albums worldwide.
Michael Jackson, recognized by Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...
as the most commercially successful entertainer of all time, became the fifth recipient of the award. With estimated sales as high as 110 million copies worldwide, his 1982 album Thriller
Thriller (album)
Thriller is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on November 30, 1982, by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall...
remains the best-selling album of all time. Jackson is reported to have sold as much as 750 million units throughout the world. Following Jackson's acknowledgement in 2006, The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
became the sixth act and second band to be honored with the Chopard Diamond award, after receiving it in 2008. The English group are the biggest-selling band in musical history, with alleged sales of 1 billion units worldwide. Overall, four solo musicians and two bands have received the Chopard Diamond award.
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