Certified units, compared
Burna Boy vs BNXN
Burna Boy holds 18× the certifications (179 vs 10), 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
BNXN · at least
2,150,000
certified units · outside Nigeria · 10 of 10 certs counted
Burna Boy leads by at least 30,221,421 certified units — a floor 15× the size of BNXN'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 26 of the 26 priced markets; BNXN leads 0. 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 · 8 | Burna Boy | BNXN |
|---|---|---|
| United KingdomUK | 14,160,0005× Platinum 30 certs | 800,000Gold 3 certs |
| United StatesUS | 4,500,000Platinum 7 certs | 1,000,000Gold 2 certs |
| FranceFR | 3,883,333Diamond ‡ 19 certs | 200,000Platinum ‡ 1 cert |
| CanadaCA | 1,800,0004× Platinum 23 certs | 120,000Platinum 2 certs |
| GermanyDE | 1,200,000Platinum ‡ 3 certs | No cert |
| United StatesUS · LATIN | 1,140,00019× Platino 1 cert | No cert |
| South AfricaZA | 980,00019× Platinum ‡ Sony Music Africa 5 certs | No cert |
| New ZealandNZ | 517,5003× Platinum † 19 certs | 30,000Gold 2 certs |
| ColombiaCO | Not counted ¹Platinum Sony Music | No cert |
| + 18 further countries where only Burna Boy is certified · at least 4,190,588 · 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. 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 ↗
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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