Burna Boy vs Olamide

Certified units, compared

Burna Boy vs Olamide

Burna Boy holds 90× the certifications (179 vs 2), and they are worth more units.

Burna Boy

artist totals · 178 counted · 26 countries

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Olamide

artist totals · 2 counted · 1 country

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Burna Boy · at least

32,371,421

certified units · outside Nigeria · 178 of 179 certs counted · 1 not comparable

Olamide · at least

400,000

certified units · outside Nigeria · 2 of 2 certs counted

Burna Boy leads by at least 31,971,421 certified units — a floor 81× the size of Olamide'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.

Burna Boy — 72 certs · at least 7,475,000Olamide — 52 certs · at least 4,300,000
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Comparison mode: Artists

Burna Boy leads 26 of the 26 priced markets; Olamide 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 · 5Burna BoyOlamide
United KingdomUK
14,160,0005× Platinum
30 certs
400,000Silver
2 certs
United StatesUS
4,500,000Platinum
7 certs
No cert
FranceFR
3,883,333Diamond ‡
19 certs
No cert
CanadaCA
1,800,0004× Platinum
23 certs
No cert
ColombiaCO
Not counted ¹Platinum Sony Music
No cert
+ 21 further countries where only Burna Boy is certified · at least 8,028,088 · 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.

‡ 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.

The full method

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