For those rare occasions, the folks at the Recording Industry Association of America unveiled their new Diamond Award Tuesday in New York, honoring the 62 best selling albums of all time. While platinum records go to artists who sell more than one million copies of an album, the new diamond honor will go to artists who manage to move more than 10 million copies of a given album in the U.S.

Metallica, Boyz II Men, Def Leppard, Billy Joel, and Elton John were among the 46 artists responsible for the first 62 albums to score the first wave of Diamond Awards and were at New York's Roseland Ballroom to pick up the honor.

[article id="1438828"]"We grew up watching these guys,"[/article] Boyz II Men's Shawn Stockman said of Tuesday's proceedings. [article id="1438828"]"To be in the same room looking at them and conversing with them, and talking, laughing and joking like we've known each other for like a thousand years is like the best thing about this business.

And to get to meet, face to face, the legends and the people that you grew up with... And they knew us!," [/article]Boyz II Men's Wanya Morris marveled. [article id="1438828"]"And they knew us too, and I guess that was a kick as well, you know, the fact that a lot of them knew us by name," [/article]Stockman added.

Alanis Morissette, Pearl Jam, Green Day, No Doubt, and the Backstreet Boys were also among the Diamond Award winners, but were not on hand for the ceremony. Of the 62 albums attaining Diamond sales status…

• 24 were released in the 90s
• 10 are greatest hits collections
• 6 are soundtracks
• 5 are from the Beatles
• 4 are from Garth Brooks
• 3 are live albums
• 1 was turned into a film about an eyebrow-less protagonist named "Pink"

Here's a look at the albums that made the diamond cut:

• The Eagles - "Their Greatest Hits" (25 million)
• Michael Jackson - "Thriller" (25 million)
• Pink Floyd - "The Wall" (23 million)

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Boys" (10 million)