Omah Lay vs CKay

Certified units, compared

Omah Lay vs CKay

Both hold 19 certifications; CKay's are worth more units.

Omah Lay

artist totals · 19 counted · 8 countries

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CKay

artist totals · 19 counted · 14 countries

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Omah Lay · at least

2,763,666

certified units · outside Nigeria · 19 of 19 certs counted

CKay · at least

12,466,224

certified units · outside Nigeria · 19 of 19 certs counted

CKay leads by at least 9,702,558 certified units — a floor 4.5× the size of Omah Lay'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.

Omah Lay — 44 certs · at least 5,925,000CKay — 10 certs · at least 700,000
Include Nigeria
Comparison mode: Artists

Omah Lay leads 2 of the 15 priced markets; CKay leads 13.

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 · 11Omah LayCKay
United StatesUS
500,000Gold
1 cert
8,000,0008× Platinum
1 cert
United KingdomUK
660,000Silver
4 certs
1,400,0002× Platinum
2 certs
FranceFR
1,016,666Diamond ‡
6 certs
666,666Diamond ‡
2 certs
GermanyDE
300,000Gold ‡
1 cert
600,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
PolandPL
No cert
500,0004× Platinum ‡ ¶
1 cert
CanadaCA
160,000Platinum
3 certs
360,0004× Platinum
2 certs
NetherlandsNL
No cert
232,5582× Platinum † ‡
2 certs
ItalyIT
No cert
200,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
PortugalPT
37,000Platinum ‡
2 certs
162,0006× Platinum ‡
2 certs
SpainES
50,000Gold ‡
1 cert
100,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
South AfricaZA
40,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
No cert
+ 4 further countries where only CKay is certified · at least 245,000 · Show all

† Multiplier assumed — NVPI abolished Meervoudig Platina on 1 January 2024 and replaced it with Diamant, so no multiplier rule is in force today. A pre-2024 N× Platina 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 ↗

Historic figure — the line rests on a figure the body published once and no longer prints, so the bar a certification cleared may differ from it. ZPAV sets single levels in złoty of revenue — Gold 125,000 zł, Platinum 250,000 zł, Diamond 1,000,000 zł — and its current rules state no rate. They are converted at 2 zł a single, the rate its own tables used from 2017 to the end of 2024, printing every single level in units and złoty side by side, so a Gold single is 62,500 units. The same 2025 rules raised the album rate from 20 zł to 35 zł, so the units behind a złoty level may differ.

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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