Certified units, compared
Burna Boy vs Ayra Starr
Burna Boy holds 9.9× the certifications (179 vs 18), and they are worth more units.
Burna Boy · at least
32,371,421
certified units · outside Nigeria · 178 of 179 certs counted · 1 not comparable
Ayra Starr · at least
5,311,666
certified units · outside Nigeria · 18 of 18 certs counted
Burna Boy leads by at least 27,059,755 certified units — a floor 6.1× the size of Ayra Starr's.
27 countries checked · outside Nigeria · both registers read 2 October 2026, then re-read on each register's publishing day (latest 22 October 2026)Nigeria — separated.
TCSN's register is request-based, so a title missing from it proves nothing about what it sold — only that nobody applied. A gap between two artists there can measure paperwork rather than sales, which is why it is counted on its own line.
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- By country
Burna Boy leads 25 of the 27 priced markets; Ayra Starr leads 2. Colombia is listed, not priced ¹.
Pill = the top certification there · bar = units, scaled to the row's larger figure · solid leads, outlined trailsThe pill is the top certification in that market. Each bar is that side's units, scaled to the row's larger figure: solid leads, outlined trails.
Country by country
| Country · 14 | Burna Boy | Ayra Starr |
|---|---|---|
| United KingdomUK | 14,160,0005× Platinum 30 certs | 800,000Platinum 2 certs |
| United StatesUS | 4,500,000Platinum 7 certs | No cert |
| FranceFR | 3,883,333Diamond ‡ 19 certs | 866,666Diamond ‡ 4 certs |
| CanadaCA | 1,800,0004× Platinum 23 certs | 160,000Platinum 3 certs |
| MexicoMX | No cert | 1,760,0004× Platinum † ‡ § 1 cert |
| GermanyDE | 1,200,000Platinum ‡ 3 certs | No cert |
| United StatesUS · LATIN | 1,140,00019× Platino 1 cert | 960,00016× Platino 1 cert |
| South AfricaZA | 980,00019× Platinum ‡ Sony Music Africa 5 certs | No cert |
| ItalyIT | 900,0004× Platinum ‡ 2 certs | 100,000Gold ‡ 1 cert |
| SpainES | 300,0002× Platinum † ‡ 2 certs | 550,0005× Platinum † ‡ 2 certs |
| DenmarkDK | 525,000Platinum 10 certs | 45,000Gold 1 cert |
| New ZealandNZ | 517,5003× Platinum † 19 certs | 30,000Platinum 1 cert |
| SwitzerlandCH | 235,0002× Platinum 9 certs | 15,000Gold 1 cert |
| PortugalPT | 184,0002× Platinum ‡ 9 certs | 25,000Platinum ‡ 1 cert |
| ColombiaCO | Not counted ¹Platinum Sony Music | No cert |
| + 13 further countries where only Burna Boy is certified · at least 2,046,588 · Show all | ||
¹ Not counted — Colombia (Sony Music). Listed, never summed: these bodies publish no threshold this page can put on the same scale as the rest.
† Multiplier assumed — RMNZ publishes no multiplier rule: its Chart Rules and About page define Gold and Platinum only, with one threshold each, and never use the words multi-platinum or 2x. Promusicae publishes Oro and Platino thresholds only and never states the arithmetic for a multiple. AMPROFON publishes no multiplier rule for singles; its own register stacks the levels it has awarded. An N× certification is priced here as N × Platinum, and a combined certification (Platino & Oro, 4 & 1) as the sum of its parts, 4 × Platinum + 1 × Gold. An N× certification is priced here as N × Platinum.
‡ This body raised its thresholds since 2015 — the figure is today's level, and a certification awarded before the rise may have cleared a lower bar. Which bodies, and when ↗
§ Ratio assumed — AMPROFON measures singles in audio streams (video streams may be added since November 2020) and publishes no stream-to-unit ratio. Its certifications are converted at 100 streams to a unit, the ratio IFPI Denmark and IFPI Norway publish for the same measure.
How this is counted
Every certification is a floor — a Platinum single in the UK means at least 600,000, and could be 1,190,000. This page adds those floors up for two records or two artists, at each certifying body's own published threshold, under identical rules.
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