Rema vs Omah Lay

Certified units, compared

Rema vs Omah Lay

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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Omah Lay

artist totals · 19 counted · 8 countries

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Rema · at least

14,713,451

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

Omah Lay · at least

2,763,666

certified units · outside Nigeria · 19 of 19 certs counted

Rema leads by at least 11,949,785 certified units — a floor 5.3× 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.

Rema — 38 certs · at least 4,325,000Omah Lay — 44 certs · at least 5,925,000
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Comparison mode: Artists

Rema leads 22 of the 23 priced markets; Omah Lay leads 1. 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 · 12RemaOmah Lay
United StatesUS
5,500,0005× Platinum
2 certs
500,000Gold
1 cert
United KingdomUK
2,860,0003× Platinum
6 certs
660,000Silver
4 certs
FranceFR
1,233,333Diamond ‡
7 certs
1,016,666Diamond ‡
6 certs
CanadaCA
960,000Diamond
3 certs
160,000Platinum
3 certs
GermanyDE
600,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
300,000Gold ‡
1 cert
SpainES
600,0004× Platinum † ‡
3 certs
50,000Gold ‡
1 cert
ItalyIT
600,0003× Platinum ‡
1 cert
No cert
AustraliaAU
560,0008× Platinum
1 cert
No cert
PolandPL
530,000Diamond ‡ ¶
2 certs
No cert
PortugalPT
237,0009× Platinum ‡
2 certs
37,000Platinum ‡
2 certs
South AfricaZA
No cert
40,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
ColombiaCO
Not counted ¹Diamond
No cert
+ 11 further countries where only Rema is certified · at least 1,033,118 · 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. 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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