{"id":2113969,"date":"2025-10-24T23:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2113969"},"modified":"2025-10-24T23:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:37:19","slug":"drake-earns-six-diamond-riaa-certifications-including-take-care-on-39th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/drake-earns-six-diamond-riaa-certifications-including-take-care-on-39th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Earns Six Diamond RIAA Certifications Including \u2018Take Care\u2019 on 39th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Diamonds are still dancing on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/drake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Drake.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Drake. <\/a>The 6 God celebrates his 39th birthday in style on Friday (Oct. 24) with 16 new RIAA certifications, including six diamond plaques.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Among the diamond certifications are Take Care and hits like \u201cNice for What,\u201d \u201cThe Motto\u201d featuring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/lil-wayne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lil Wayne,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lil Wayne,<\/a> \u201cHeadlines,\u201d \u201cPassionfruit\u201d and \u201cNonstop.\u201d The OVO rapper has extended his record with 15 diamond-certified songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other certifications include Drizzy albums such as Views (9x), If You\u2019re Reading This It\u2019s Too Late (5x) and For all the Dogs (3x).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tracks moving up the certification ladder are \u201cChicago Freestyle\u201d (5x), \u201cRich Baby Daddy\u201d (3x), \u201cSlime You Out\u201d (2x), \u201cVirginia Beach\u201d (2x), \u201cHours in Silence\u201d (2x) and \u201cRich Flex\u201d with 21 Savage (5x).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier this year, Nothing Was the Same\u2018s \u201cHold On We\u2019re Going Home\u201d and So Far Gone\u2018s \u201cBest I Ever Had\u201d entered the diamond club. With 16 plaques on the way, and more to come, it\u2019s safe to say Drake will need more real estate in his trophy room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drake\u2019s father, Dennis Graham, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQLfJa7DaPx\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:posted to Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">posted to Instagram<\/a> on Friday with a photo presumably from the OVO birthday trip to the Bahamas. \u201cHappy Birthday to my baby boy, what a time to celebrate with the ones you love,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After wrapping up the birthday festivities, all eyes will turn to Drake\u2019s Iceman album\u2019s arrival. Earlier this week, former NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel recapped his week on social media while hanging with Drake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In his caption, the OVO affiliate teased Iceman. \u201cCaught a flight to the Bahamas cause it\u2019s Iceman time and the baccarat tables were calling my name,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQH3-s0ka1Z\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he wrote.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he wrote. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.billboard.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Billboard's Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Billboard&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/31XsHSx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TkcoeG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TntOHq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamonds are still dancing on Drake. The 6 God celebrates his 39th birthday in style on Friday (Oct. 24) with 16 new RIAA certifications, including six diamond plaques. Among the diamond certifications are Take Care and hits like \u201cNice for What,\u201d \u201cThe Motto\u201d featuring Lil Wayne, \u201cHeadlines,\u201d \u201cPassionfruit\u201d and \u201cNonstop.\u201d The OVO rapper has extended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2113970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[390552,29110,25844,400510],"class_list":["post-2113969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-39th-birthday","tag-billboard","tag-drake","tag-riaa-certifications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Drake-Earns-Six-Diamond-RIAA-Certifications-Including-\u2018Take-Care-on.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113971,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113969\/revisions\/2113971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2113970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}