Cardi B's 'Bodak Yellow' certified Diamond (RIAA 10x Platinum)

Why it matters

August 29, 2019. The RIAA certified "Bodak Yellow" Diamond, indicating ten million US units sold. The certification made Cardi B the first solo woman rapper to ever achieve Diamond status with a single track. The song had been out for twenty-six months. The Diamond certification continues to track scarcely. As of 2024, fewer than 100 songs across all genres have ever been RIAA-Diamond certified, and the count for solo women rappers specifically remains in the single digits. The number is not just a milestone marker; it is empirical proof that Cardi's commercial moment was, by 2019, fully consolidated. "Bodak Yellow" had become one of the most-streamed and most-purchased hip-hop singles of the 2010s. Cardi herself spent the years following Invasion of Privacy in a more public-persona-driven mode (the Tory Lanez incident, the Offset divorce, the various political-pop interventions). The catalog has not, in 2026, equaled the 2017-2018 commercial peak. Whether it does is the next chapter. The Diamond is the receipt for the chapter that did happen.