Certified units, compared
Burna Boy vs Ruger
Every plaque 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.
Burna Boy · at least
31,060,657
certified units · international · 175 of 176 plaques counted · 1 not comparable
Ruger · at least
315,000
certified units · international · 3 of 3 plaques counted
Burna Boy leads by at least 30,745,657 certified units — a floor 98.6× the size of Ruger's.
26 countries · international · registers read 23 September 2026 (Burna Boy) and 24 September 2026 (Ruger)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.
Country by country
| Country · 7 | Burna Boy | Ruger |
|---|---|---|
| United KingdomUK | 5× Platinum13,960,00030 plaques · top shown | Silver200,000 |
| United StatesUS | Platinum4,500,0007 plaques · top shown | No plaque |
| FranceFR | Diamond ‡3,883,33119 plaques · top shown | Gold ‡100,000 |
| CanadaCA | 4× Platinum1,800,00023 plaques · top shown | No plaque |
| GermanyDE | Platinum ‡1,200,0003 plaques · top shown | No plaque |
| New ZealandNZ | 3× Platinum †517,50019 plaques · top shown | Gold15,000 |
| ColombiaCO | GoldSony Music Colombianot counted ¹ | No plaque |
| + 19 further countries where only Burna Boy is certified · at least 5,199,826Show all | ||
¹ Not counted — Colombia (Sony Music Colombia). 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× award is priced here as N × Platinum.
‡ This body raised its thresholds since 2015 — the figure is today's level, and a plaque awarded before the rise may have cleared a lower bar. Which bodies, and when ↗
How this is counted
One plaque per release per country
At its current tier. Gold → Platinum → 2× Platinum is the same sales recertified, never three sales.
Each body's own threshold
Streams-based bodies — Czechia, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Slovakia — are converted with the body's own published download-equivalence, never an estimate.
Not quite everything can be priced
Mexico and Sweden publish their song levels in streams and no download-equivalence — those plaques are converted at 100 streams to a unit, the ratio Denmark and Norway publish, and marked §. Colombia publishes no thresholds. Greece is priced at IFPI's June 2013 level — the last the umbrella body ever published for it — and marked ¶. Poland sets its single levels in złoty of revenue and states no rate; they are converted at 2 zł a single, the rate its own single tables used until the end of 2024, and marked ¶. The unpriced plaques are listed, never summed, and never hidden.
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