Certified units, compared
Tems vs CKay
Tems holds 3.6× the certifications (68 vs 19), and they are worth more units.
Tems · at least
28,720,618
certified units · outside Nigeria · 68 of 68 certs counted
CKay · at least
12,466,224
certified units · outside Nigeria · 19 of 19 certs counted
Tems leads by at least 16,254,394 certified units — a floor 2.3× 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.
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- Song vs song
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- By country
Tems leads 14 of the 21 priced markets; CKay leads 6; 1 level.
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 · 17 | Tems | CKay |
|---|---|---|
| United StatesUS | 20,500,00011× Platinum 7 certs | 8,000,0008× Platinum 1 cert |
| United KingdomUK | 5,060,0002× Platinum 10 certs | 1,400,0002× Platinum 2 certs |
| CanadaCA | 720,0003× Platinum 8 certs | 360,0004× Platinum 2 certs |
| FranceFR | 500,000Platinum ‡ 4 certs | 666,666Diamond ‡ 2 certs |
| GermanyDE | No cert | 600,000Platinum ‡ 1 cert |
| PolandPL | 125,000Gold ‡ ¶ 2 certs | 500,0004× Platinum ‡ ¶ 1 cert |
| New ZealandNZ | 442,5004× Platinum † 11 certs | 90,0003× Platinum † 1 cert |
| AustraliaAU | 245,0002× Platinum 3 certs | 35,000Gold 1 cert |
| NetherlandsNL | 93,023Platinum ‡ 1 cert | 232,5582× Platinum † ‡ 2 certs |
| ItalyIT | 200,000Gold ‡ 2 certs | 200,000Platinum ‡ 1 cert |
| DenmarkDK | 180,000Platinum 2 certs | 90,000Platinum 1 cert |
| South AfricaZA | 180,0003× Platinum ‡ 3 certs | No cert |
| PortugalPT | 174,0003× Platinum ‡ 5 certs | 162,0006× Platinum ‡ 2 certs |
| BrazilBR | 120,0002× Platinum 2 certs | No cert |
| SpainES | 50,000Gold ‡ 1 cert | 100,000Platinum ‡ 1 cert |
| SwitzerlandCH | 45,000Platinum 2 certs | No cert |
| AustriaAT | 15,000Gold 1 cert | 30,000Platinum 1 cert |
| + 4 further countries where only Tems is certified · at least 71,095 · Show all | ||
† Multiplier assumed — 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. An N× certification is priced here as N × Platinum. 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.
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