Certified units, compared

Fireboy DML vs Oxlade

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.

Fireboy DML

artist totals · 8 counted · 5 countries

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Oxlade

artist totals · 10 counted · 10 countries

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Featured appearancesFeatured appearances: on · every plaque heldNigeriaNigeria: separatedHow this is counted

Fireboy DML · at least

3,968,333

certified units · international · 8 of 8 plaques counted

Oxlade · at least

1,901,356

certified units · international · 10 of 10 plaques counted

Fireboy DML leads by at least 2,066,977 certified units — a floor 2.1× the size of Oxlade's.

26 countries · international · registers read 6 September 2026 (Fireboy DML) and 25 September 2026 (Oxlade)

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.

Fireboy DML — 28 plaques · at least 2,900,000Oxlade — 4 plaques · at least 175,000
Include Nigeria

Country by country

Country · 10Fireboy DMLOxlade
United KingdomUK
3× Platinum2,000,0002 plaques · top shown
Platinum600,000
United StatesUS
Platinum1,500,0002 plaques · top shown
Gold500,000
FranceFR
Diamond ‡333,333
Diamond ‡333,333
CanadaCANo plaque
2× Platinum160,000
NetherlandsNLNo plaque
Platinum ‡93,023
DenmarkDK
Platinum90,000
Gold45,000
SwedenSENo plaque
Gold ‡ §60,000
SpainESNo plaque
Gold ‡50,000
New ZealandNZ
Platinum45,0002 plaques · top shown
Platinum30,000
SwitzerlandCHNo plaque
Platinum30,000

‡ 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 ↗

§ Ratio assumed — the body publishes its levels in streams and no download-equivalence, so this page converts at 100 streams to a unit, the ratio Denmark and Norway publish for the same measure. IFPI Sverige counts songs in capped streams only (since 1 January 2018) and publishes no stream-to-unit ratio. Its plaques are converted at 100 streams to a unit, the ratio IFPI Danmark and IFPI Norge publish for the same measure; capped streams undercount plays, so the figure is a floor.

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.

How this is counted

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