Blackstreet’s ‘No Diggity’ featuring Dr. Dre & Queen Pen awarded BPI Platinum status

The Official Charts Company has awarded Blackstreet’s ‘No Diggity’ featuring Dr. Dre & Queen Pen, BPI Platinum status for reaching over 600,000 sales. The song was released in 1996 through Interscope Records & reached  number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and in New Zealand, and number nine in the United Kingdom. ‘No Diggity’ ended ‘Macarena’s 14-week reign atop the Billboard Hot 100.

It ranked at number 91 on Rolling Stone and MTV: 100 Greatest Pop Songs. It also won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and was nominated for Grammy Award for Best R&B Song.

In the United Kingdom, the song climbed back into the top forty of the UK Singles Chart in March 2013, peaking at number thirty-eight 16 years after its original release. Recently the song has featured in the new ‘Approved Used’ Mercedes-Benz advertisement that you can view here.