Certified units, compared

Tems vs Kizz Daniel

Every plaque 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.

Tems

artist totals · 67 counted · 20 countries

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Kizz Daniel

artist totals · 1 counted · 1 country

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Featured appearancesFeatured appearances: on · every plaque heldNigeriaNigeria: separatedHow this is counted

Tems · at least

27,700,618

certified units · international · 67 of 67 plaques counted

Kizz Daniel · at least

500,000

certified units · international · 1 of 1 plaques counted

Tems leads by at least 27,200,618 certified units — a floor 55.4× the size of Kizz Daniel's.

26 countries · international · registers read 23 September 2026 (Tems) and 24 September 2026 (Kizz Daniel)

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.

Tems — 8 plaques · at least 775,000Kizz Daniel — 34 plaques · at least 4,925,000
Include Nigeria

Country by country

Country · 4TemsKizz Daniel
United StatesUS
Diamond19,500,0007 plaques · top shown
Gold500,000
United KingdomUK
2× Platinum5,060,00010 plaques · top shown
No plaque
CanadaCA
3× Platinum720,0008 plaques · top shown
No plaque
FranceFR
Platinum ‡500,0004 plaques · top shown
No plaque
+ 16 further countries where only Tems is certified · at least 1,920,618Show all

‡ This body raised its thresholds since 2015 — the figure is today's level, and a plaque awarded before the rise may have cleared a lower bar. Which bodies, and when ↗

How this is counted

One plaque per release per country

At its current tier. Gold → Platinum → 2× Platinum is the same sales recertified, never three sales.

Each body's own threshold

Streams-based bodies — Czechia, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Slovakia — are converted with the body's own published download-equivalence, never an estimate.

Not quite everything can be priced

Mexico and Sweden publish their song levels in streams and no download-equivalence — those plaques are converted at 100 streams to a unit, the ratio Denmark and Norway publish, and marked §. Colombia publishes no thresholds. Greece is priced at IFPI's June 2013 level — the last the umbrella body ever published for it — and marked ¶. Poland sets its single levels in złoty of revenue and states no rate; they are converted at 2 zł a single, the rate its own single tables used until the end of 2024, and marked ¶. The unpriced plaques are listed, never summed, and never hidden.

How this is counted

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