Rema vs Tems

Certified units, compared

Rema vs Tems

Tems holds more certifications (68 vs 47), and they are worth more units.

Rema

artist totals · 46 counted · 22 countries

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Tems

artist totals · 68 counted · 20 countries

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Rema · at least

14,713,451

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

Tems · at least

28,720,618

certified units · outside Nigeria · 68 of 68 certs counted

Tems leads by at least 14,007,167 certified units — a floor 2.0× the size of Rema'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 4,325,000Tems — 8 certs · at least 775,000
Include Nigeria
Comparison mode: Artists

Rema leads 13 of the 23 priced markets; Tems leads 6; 4 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 · 23RemaTems
United StatesUS
5,500,0005× Platinum
2 certs
20,500,00011× Platinum
7 certs
United KingdomUK
2,860,0003× Platinum
6 certs
5,060,0002× Platinum
10 certs
FranceFR
1,233,333Diamond ‡
7 certs
500,000Platinum ‡
4 certs
CanadaCA
960,000Diamond
3 certs
720,0003× Platinum
8 certs
GermanyDE
600,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
No cert
SpainES
600,0004× Platinum † ‡
3 certs
50,000Gold ‡
1 cert
ItalyIT
600,0003× Platinum ‡
1 cert
200,000Gold ‡
2 certs
AustraliaAU
560,0008× Platinum
1 cert
245,0002× Platinum
3 certs
PolandPL
530,000Diamond ‡ ¶
2 certs
125,000Gold ‡ ¶
2 certs
New ZealandNZ
120,0004× Platinum †
1 cert
442,5004× Platinum †
11 certs
BrazilBR
260,000Diamond
3 certs
120,0002× Platinum
2 certs
PortugalPT
237,0009× Platinum ‡
2 certs
174,0003× Platinum ‡
5 certs
DenmarkDK
90,000Platinum
1 cert
180,000Platinum
2 certs
South AfricaZA
No cert
180,0003× Platinum ‡
3 certs
SwitzerlandCH
170,0004× Platinum
4 certs
45,000Platinum
2 certs
United StatesUS · LATIN
120,0002× Platino
1 cert
No cert
NetherlandsNL
93,023Gold ‡
2 certs
93,023Platinum ‡
1 cert
BelgiumBE
80,0002× Platinum
1 cert
40,000Platinum
1 cert
NorwayNO
60,000Platinum
1 cert
No cert
AustriaAT
15,000Gold
1 cert
15,000Gold
1 cert
GreeceGR
6,000Platinum
1 cert
12,0002× Platinum † ¶
1 cert
Czech RepublicCZ
11,261Gold ‡
1 cert
11,261Gold ‡
1 cert
SlovakiaSK
7,834Platinum ‡
1 cert
7,834Platinum ‡
1 cert
ColombiaCO
Not counted ¹Diamond
No cert

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. IFPI’s June 2013 list sets Gold and Platinum only and gives no formula for multiples, although IFPI Greece’s own Digital Singles chart prints 2P and 3P in its Award column. 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. IFPI Greece publishes no current level. Priced at IFPI's own International Certification Award levels list, updated June 2013 — the last figure ever published for Greece (singles Gold 3,000 / Platinum 6,000 unit sales; international-repertoire albums the same). The body now certifies from its streaming Digital Singles chart and states no ratio, so a certification awarded today may sit on a different bar.

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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