Rema vs CKay

Certified units, compared

Rema vs CKay

Rema holds 2.5× the certifications (47 vs 19), and they are worth more units.

Rema

artist totals · 46 counted · 22 countries

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CKay

artist totals · 19 counted · 14 countries

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Rema · at least

14,713,451

certified units · outside Nigeria · 46 of 47 certs counted · 1 not comparable

CKay · at least

12,466,224

certified units · outside Nigeria · 19 of 19 certs counted

Rema leads by at least 2,247,227 certified units — a floor 1.2× the size of CKay'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.

Rema — 38 certs · at least 4,325,000CKay — 10 certs · at least 700,000
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Comparison mode: Artists

Rema leads 17 of the 22 priced markets; CKay leads 3; 2 level. 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 · 17RemaCKay
United StatesUS
5,500,0005× Platinum
2 certs
8,000,0008× Platinum
1 cert
United KingdomUK
2,860,0003× Platinum
6 certs
1,400,0002× Platinum
2 certs
FranceFR
1,233,333Diamond ‡
7 certs
666,666Diamond ‡
2 certs
CanadaCA
960,000Diamond
3 certs
360,0004× Platinum
2 certs
GermanyDE
600,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
600,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
SpainES
600,0004× Platinum † ‡
3 certs
100,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
ItalyIT
600,0003× Platinum ‡
1 cert
200,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
AustraliaAU
560,0008× Platinum
1 cert
35,000Gold
1 cert
PolandPL
530,000Diamond ‡ ¶
2 certs
500,0004× Platinum ‡ ¶
1 cert
BrazilBR
260,000Diamond
3 certs
No cert
PortugalPT
237,0009× Platinum ‡
2 certs
162,0006× Platinum ‡
2 certs
NetherlandsNL
93,023Gold ‡
2 certs
232,5582× Platinum † ‡
2 certs
SwitzerlandCH
170,0004× Platinum
4 certs
No cert
New ZealandNZ
120,0004× Platinum †
1 cert
90,0003× Platinum †
1 cert
United StatesUS · LATIN
120,0002× Platino
1 cert
No cert
DenmarkDK
90,000Platinum
1 cert
90,000Platinum
1 cert
AustriaAT
15,000Gold
1 cert
30,000Platinum
1 cert
ColombiaCO
Not counted ¹Diamond
No cert
+ 5 further countries where only Rema is certified · at least 165,095 · Show all

¹ Not counted — Colombia (Pro Música Colombia). Listed, never summed: these bodies publish no threshold this page can put on the same scale as the rest.

† Multiplier assumed — Promusicae publishes Oro and Platino thresholds only and never states the arithmetic for a multiple. 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. 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. 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 ↗

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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