Certified units, compared
Wizkid vs Black Sherif
Wizkid holds 6.4× the certifications (159 vs 25), and they are worth more units.
Nigeria included by default — Black Sherif has no certifications outside Nigeria.
Wizkid · at least
52,815,770
certified units · Nigeria included · 159 of 159 certs counted
Black Sherif · at least
1,550,000
certified units · Nigeria included · 25 of 25 certs counted
Wizkid leads by at least 51,265,770 certified units — a floor 34× the size of Black Sherif's.
28 countries checked · Nigeria included · both registers read 2 October 2026, then re-read on each register's publishing day (latest 22 October 2026)Nigeria — included.
Nigeria included by default — Black Sherif has no certifications outside Nigeria.
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.
Comparison mode: Artists
- Song vs song
- Album vs album
- Artist totals
- By country
Wizkid leads 21 of the 21 priced markets; Black Sherif leads 0.
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 · 4 | Wizkid | Black Sherif |
|---|---|---|
| NigeriaNG | 5,525,0006× Platinum 71 certs | 1,550,0003× Platinum 25 certs |
| United StatesUS | 25,000,00015× Platinum 10 certs | No cert |
| United KingdomUK | 9,500,0008× Platinum 17 certs | No cert |
| MexicoMX | 1,980,0004× Platinum + Gold † ‡ § 1 cert | No cert |
| + 17 further countries where only Wizkid is certified · at least 10,810,770 · Show all | ||
† Multiplier assumed — AMPROFON publishes no multiplier rule for singles; its own register stacks the levels it has awarded. An N× certification is priced here as N × Platinum, and a combined certification (Platino & Oro, 4 & 1) as the sum of its parts, 4 × Platinum + 1 × Gold.
‡ 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 ↗
§ Ratio assumed — AMPROFON measures singles in audio streams (video streams may be added since November 2020) and publishes no stream-to-unit ratio. Its certifications are converted at 100 streams to a unit, the ratio IFPI Denmark and IFPI Norway publish for the same measure.
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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