“Diamonds” was released as the lead single from Rihanna’s seventh studio album, Unapologetic. It became her twelfth number-one in the US. During the tracking week ending February 25, 2023, the song re-entered the Hot 100 chart at #44.

The song was written by Sia, who wrote the chart topping hit in just 14 minutes.

We’re sitting there trying to make records, and we finally just said, ‘Let’s just do something we like. Let’s make a hip-hop record with some really cool chords on it… It didn’t sound Rihanna at all. We were more thinking of making a record that sounds like Kanye. Let’s make a record with a dope beat. So we did. Then Sia heard the track and instantly gravitated towards it. We weren’t even thinking of putting a pop song on it, but she wrote this amazing song.

—Benny Blanco (Producer)

I literally punched him in the arm. I thought Benny was playing a trick on me, [Rihanna] could’ve done it her own way, but I think she really genuinely liked the way it was.

—Sia