Here's a chronilogical order.
YEAR/ TITLE/ STATUS/
1969 Neil Diamond 1 GOLD/1 PLATINUM
1969 TOUCHING YOU, TOUCHING ME 1 GOLD
1970 GOLD/ LIVE 1 GOLD/ DBL. PLATINUM
1970 TAPROOT MANUSCRIPT 1 GOLD/1 PLATINUM
1971 STONES 1 GOLD
1972 MOODS 1 GOLD/1 PLATINUM
1972 HOT AUGUST NIGHT/LIVE 1 GOLD/DBL PLATINUM
1973 RAINBOW 1 GOLD
1974 HIS 12 GREATEST HITS 1 GOLD/4 TIME MULTI-
PLATINUM
1974 SERENADE 1 GOLD/1 PLATINUM
1976 BEAUTIFUL NOISE 1 GOLD/1 PLATINUM
1977 LOVE AT THE GREEK/LIVE 1 GOLD/1 PLATINUM
1077 I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE W/ME 1 GOLD/DBL PLATINUM
TONIGHT
1978 YOU DON'T BRING ME FLOWERS 1 GOLD/DBL PLATINUM
1979 SEPTEMBER MORN 1 GOLD/MULTI-PLATINUM
1981 THE JAZZ SINGER/SOUNDTRACK 1 GOLD/5 TIME MULTI- PLATINUM
1981 LOVE SONGS 1 GOLD
1981 ON THE WAY TO THE SKY 1 GOLD/1 PLATINUM
1982 12 GREATEST HITS VOL. II 1 GOLD/3 TIME MULTI- PLATINUM
1982 HEARTLIGHT 1 GOLD/1 PLATINUM
1983 CLASSICS/THE EARLY YEARS 1 GOLD/1 PLATINUM
1984 PRIMITIVE 1 GOLD
1989 BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES 1 GOLD
1991 LOVESCAPE 1 GOLD
1992 GREATEST HITS 1966-1992 1 GOLD/3 TIME MULTI- PLATINUM
1992 THE Christmas ALBUM 1 GOLD/DBL PLATINUM
1003 UP ON THE ROOF 1 GOLD
1994 LIVE IN AMERICA 1 GOLD
1994 CHRISTMAS ALBUM II 1 GOLD
1996 Tennessee MOON 1 GOLD
1996 IN MY LIFETIME/BOXSET 1 GOLD
1998 AS TIME GOES BYE/MOVIE ALBUM 1 GOLD
1999 20 CENTURY MASTERS/MILLENIUM 1 GOLD
COLLECTION
2001 THREE CHORD OPERA 1 GOLD
2001 THE ESSENTIAL NEIL DIAMOND 1 GOLD/1 PLATINUM
**status unknown for 12 SONGS/2005, HOME BEFORE DARK/2008, AND HOT AUGUST NIGHT- LIVE, NYC/2009.** NEIL DIAMOND has 35 GOLD albums and 37 PLATINUM albums to date. The artists must sell 500,000+ albums to earn a GOLD, 1 million albums sold to earn a PLATINUM, and 2 million+ to earn MULTI-PLATINUM.
He had 13 top 40 hits from 1972-1987
Neil Diamond may have sold more albums but Neil Sedaka is still touring
Neil Diamond is a singer song writer who has had many hits which include "Sweet Caroline".
Neil Diamond has stopped smoking many years ago. He does not smoke anymore.
Neil Diamond has four children and several grandchildren and in his lifetime has attended many children's award programs.
33 studio records, 8 live records as of 2010 anyway.
Neil Diamond may have sold more albums but Neil Sedaka is still touring
Neil Diamond is a singer song writer who has had many hits which include "Sweet Caroline".
Neil Diamond has stopped smoking many years ago. He does not smoke anymore.
Neil Diamond has four children and several grandchildren and in his lifetime has attended many children's award programs.
What distinguises gold and platinum records- not the composition of the records I mean in terms of how many are sold.
i did research and i believe elvis got 7 gold records
33 studio records, 8 live records as of 2010 anyway.
As of 2001, it was at 115 million copies - so likely more at this point.
He had 45.
12
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Ten million (10,000,000)