By Andrea Reiher, Parade | Fifty years after its release—February 17, 1976—Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975 by the Eagles just made history. Again. The 1976 collection has officially become the first album ever to receive quadruple diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), marking 40 million units sold in the United States.
That milestone cements the album’s place as the biggest album in RIAA history in terms of U.S. sales and streams.
Originally released in February 1976, the set spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and has logged an astonishing 514 weeks on the all-genre albums chart. The track list pulls from the band’s first four studio albums and includes “Take It Easy,” “Desperado,” “Take It to the Limit” and their first-ever Billboard Hot 100 No. 1, “Best of My Love.”
At 40 million units, the album becomes the first ever to cross that threshold under the RIAA’s certification system. (For context, one equivalent album unit equals one physical album sale, 10 track downloads, or 1,500 on-demand streams.)
The Eagles now hold two of the three biggest albums in RIAA history. Their 1976 studio album Hotel California was recently upgraded to 28-times platinum, placing it third overall. Michael Jackson’sThriller sits between the two projects at 34-times platinum.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/1976-album-just-earned-first-ever-quadruple-diamond-riaa-status-50-years-later/