{{hatnote|This article is about the World Music Award. For the RIAA Diamond Award, see [[Music recording certification|Diamond award]].}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox award | name = Chopard Diamond Award | awarded_for = Selling over 100 million albums | image = | imagesize = | caption = | presenter = [[Albert II, Prince of Monaco|Albert II, The Prince of Monaco]] | country = [[Monaco]] | year = {{start date and age|2001|5|2|df=y}} | year2 = {{end date and age|2008|11|9|df=y}} | website = [http://www.worldmusicawards.com/ worldmusicawards.com] }}

The '''Chopard Diamond Award''', or the '''Diamond World Music Award''', or simply the '''Diamond Award''', was a special award of merit given by the [[World Music Awards]] to recording artists who had sold over 100 million albums throughout their career.<ref name="Coldplay, Leona Lewis, Notorious B.I.G., Ringo Starr Win Big At World Music Awards">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/11/10/coldplay-leona-lewis-ringo-starr-win-big-at-world-music-awards/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206170601/http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/11/10/coldplay-leona-lewis-ringo-starr-win-big-at-world-music-awards/|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 February 2009|title=Coldplay, Leona Lewis, Ringo Starr Win Big At World Music Awards|date=10 November 2008|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref>

The Diamond Award was created in 2001, and it was not presented every year.

==Origins== The World Music Awards were established in 1989.<ref name="World Music Awards">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldmusicawards.com/|title=World Music Awards official website|access-date=24 April 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080210101411/http://www.worldmusicawards.com/|archive-date=10 February 2008}}</ref> Honors were based entirely on worldwide sales figures in the [[music industry]] based on the [[International Federation of the Phonographic Industry]] (IFPI).<ref name="World Music Awards bring few surprises">{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/world-music-awards-bring-few-surprises/2005/09/02/1125302720278.html|title=World Music Awards bring few surprises|date=2 September 2005|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref>

In total, only six musical acts won the Chopard Diamond Award:<ref name="World Music Awards"/> * 2001: [[Rod Stewart]] * 2003: [[Mariah Carey]] * 2004: [[Céline Dion]] * 2005: [[Bon Jovi]] * 2006: [[Michael Jackson]] * 2008: [[Ringo Starr]]/[[The Beatles]] <!--Not to be confused with RIAA Diamond Award. Please do not add more without a reference.-->

==Ceremony== The first Diamond Award was issued in 2001 to British singer-songwriter [[Rod Stewart]]. He is known to have sold over 100 million records throughout his career.<ref name="How we met: Rob Dickins & Rod Stewart">{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1816525.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102192215/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1816525.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 November 2012|title=How we met: Rob Dickins & Rod Stewart|last=Perrone|first=Pierre|date=2 November 2003|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|url-access=subscription |access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref>

American singer-songwriter [[Mariah Carey]] was honoured in 2003. Carey was the first female artist to receive the award, which was sponsored by Chopard in 2003, and had been previously recognized at the World Music Awards as the best-selling female artist of the Millennium. Mariah Carey sold more than 150 million records worldwide, which made her the highest-selling female recording artist in recorded music history.

Canadian songstress [[Céline Dion]] became the third overall and second female recipient of the Diamond Award. She was honoured in 2004, receiving the Diamond Award, recognizing her status as the World's Best-Selling Female Artist of all time.<ref>{{Cite web|title='Diamond' winner Dion dazzles at music awards|url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/music/2004/09/16/worldmusicawards/|access-date=2020-09-29|website=www.hellomagazine.com}}</ref><ref name="Dion, Lavigne score trophies at World Music Awards">{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/dion-lavigne-score-trophies-at-world-music-awards-1.650228|title=Dion, Lavigne score trophies at World Music Awards|date=5 November 2007|publisher=[[CBC News]]|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref> According to her record label, [[Sony Music Entertainment]], Dion has sold over 175 million albums worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Columbia Records Announces the Release of 'Taking Chances,' the Long-Awaited New Studio Album from Multi-Platinum Grammy-Winning Musical Artist Celine Dion|url=https://www.sony.com/content/sony/en/en_us/SCA/company-news/press-releases/sony-music-entertainment/2007/columbia-records-announces-the-release-of-taking-chances-the-longawaited-new-studio-album-from-multiplatinum-grammywinning-musical-artist-celine-dion.html|access-date=2020-09-29|website=www.sony.com|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Canadian pop diva Celine Dion receives the Diamond Award, a special...|url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/canadian-pop-diva-celine-dion-receives-the-diamond-award-a-news-photo/51312383|access-date=2020-09-29|website=Getty Images|language=en-us}}</ref><ref name="Celine Dion, My Chemical Romance, Maroon 5 to Hit Seoul in 2008">{{cite news|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/include/print.asp?newsIdx=15722|title=Celine Dion, My Chemical Romance, Maroon 5 to Hit Seoul in 2008|last=Garcia|first=Cathy Rose A.|date=18 December 2007|newspaper=[[The Korea Times]]|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref>

The American rock band [[Bon Jovi]] became the successors to Dion and the first group to be acknowledged with the Diamond Award, after being honoured in 2005. The band are believed to have sold over 120 million albums worldwide.<ref name="Bon Jovi Pack in Hits and Hardcore Fans at Free Central Park Show">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/07/14/bon-jovi-pack-in-hits-and-hardcore-fans-at-free-central-park-show/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080715170517/http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/07/14/bon-jovi-pack-in-hits-and-hardcore-fans-at-free-central-park-show/|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 July 2008|title=Bon Jovi Pack in Hits and Hardcore Fans at Free Central Park Show|last=Zfat|first=Natalie|date=14 July 2008|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref>

Michael Jackson, recognized by ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' as the most commercially successful entertainer of all time, became the fifth recipient of the award in 2006.<ref name="Taking the Mika out of Michael Penniman">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3642897/Taking-the-Mika-out-of-Michael-Penniman.html|title=Taking the Mika out of Michael Penniman|last=Farndale|first=Nigel|date=23 September 2007|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref> With estimated sales as high as 65 million copies worldwide, his 1982 album ''[[Thriller (Michael Jackson album)|Thriller]]'' remains the [[List of best-selling albums|best-selling album]] of all time.<ref name="Guinness for Biggest-selling album ever">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/michael-jackson-thriller-30x-multi-platinum-album-6812781/ | title=Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Becomes First-Ever 30 Times Multi-Platinum Album: Exclusive | editor=Colin Stutz | magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | access-date=16 December 2015}}</ref> Jackson is reported by his estate to have sold as much as 350 million units throughout the world.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/25/michael.jackson.world/index.html|title=Jackson was star the world could not ignore|work=[[CNN]]|date=26 June 2009|access-date=2 September 2009}}</ref>

[[The Beatles]] became the sixth act and second band to be honoured with the Diamond Award. [[Ringo Starr]] accepted their award in 2008. The English group are the biggest-selling band in musical history, with alleged sales of 1&nbsp;billion units worldwide.<ref name="Beatles' records are big-sellers">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?id=4a8oAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vysEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4844,5818242&dq=beatles+biggest-selling&hl=en|title=Beatles' records are big-sellers|date=9 December 1980|newspaper=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref><ref name="Paul at Fifty: Paul McCartney">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975715-2,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206120350/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975715-2,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 February 2009|title=Paul At Fifty: Paul McCartney|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=8 June 1992|access-date=29 December 2009}}</ref>

The last two editions of the World Music Awards, after that, in 2010 and 2014, did not give out Diamond Awards.

== Millennium Awards ==

Apart from the world's best-selling artists in the various categories and the national best-selling artists, special [[millennium]] awards were presented in 2000 to the world's best-selling recording artists of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.montecarloresort.com/awards/00/w00pre00.htm |title=THE 12th WORLD MUSIC AWARDS - may 2000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001003214032/http://www.montecarloresort.com/awards/00/w00pre00.htm |archive-date=3 October 2000 }} World Music Awards; section entitled "The Awards"</ref> The awards were presented to [[Michael Jackson]] and [[Mariah Carey]] in the male and female artist award categories.

==See also== * [[Chopard]] * [[List of best-selling music artists]]

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080210101411/http://www.worldmusicawards.com/ World Music Awards official website]

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