Global dancehall artiste Sean Paul secured his first Diamond certification last Thursday, January 22, for his 2016 collaboration with Sia, Cheap Thrills.

According to a Billboard.com article, Cheap Thrills was certified 11 times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), marking more than 11 million units sold—his first song to achieve the Diamond-plus feat.

The Jamaican, named Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques, emerged in the dancehall scene in the late 1990s, before creating iconic dancehall crossover hits like Temperature, Get Busy and Gimme The Light that exploded onto the Billboard charts in 2000.

With more than two decades of cross-genre success, Sean Paul’s 2002 collection Dutty Rock secured the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album. It also became his first of two top 10 projects on the Billboard 200.

On the Billboard Hot 100, Sean Paul has earned four number 1 singles from 10 top-10 hits, including the four-week chart-topper Cheap Thrills. The song, which marked Sean Paul’s first Hot 100 chart-topper in more than a decade, is Sia’s second single to earn a Diamond certification from the RIAA. Like Cheap Thrills, Sia’s Chandelier achieved Diamond status exactly a decade after its release.

Sia initially released Cheap Thrills on her 2015 long-play album, This Is Acting, and Seal Paul added his Jamaican flavour to the remix at the beginning of 2016. With the strong influence of the “tropical pop” sound, the remix helped the song conquer the top 40, topping the all-genre Radio Songs chart for eight weeks. This became Sean Paul’s longest stay atop the Billboard Hot 100 100 since his feature on 2003 banger Baby Boy with Beyoncé, which peaked for nine weeks.

Cheap Thrills ended the 2010s at no. 66 on the Decade-End Billboard Hot 100 and earned both artistes their first (and only) Grammy nods in the best pop/duo group performance category.

Thereafter, Sean Paul got busy with other albums, releasing two consecutive Grammy-nominated albums—2021’s Live n Livin and 2022’s Scorcha—which both reached the top 10 of Reggae Albums at numbers 9 and 6, respectively.

In December 2025, he co-headlined the Jamaica Strong benefit concert for Hurricane Melissa relief at New York’s UBS Arena. On December 12, the day of the fundraiser, he released an uplifting anthem titled Faith We A Keep.