Wizkid vs CKay

Certified units, compared

Wizkid vs CKay

Wizkid holds 4.6× the certifications (88 vs 19), and they are worth more units.

Wizkid

artist totals · 88 counted · 20 countries

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CKay

artist totals · 19 counted · 14 countries

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Wizkid · at least

47,290,770

certified units · outside Nigeria · 88 of 88 certs counted

CKay · at least

12,466,224

certified units · outside Nigeria · 19 of 19 certs counted

Wizkid leads by at least 34,824,546 certified units — a floor 3.8× 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.

Wizkid — 71 certs · at least 5,525,000CKay — 10 certs · at least 700,000
Include Nigeria
Comparison mode: Artists

Wizkid leads 18 of the 21 priced markets; CKay leads 3.

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 · 17WizkidCKay
United StatesUS
25,000,00015× Platinum
10 certs
8,000,0008× Platinum
1 cert
United KingdomUK
9,500,0008× Platinum
17 certs
1,400,0002× Platinum
2 certs
MexicoMX
1,980,0004× Platinum + Gold † ‡ §
1 cert
No cert
CanadaCA
1,600,000Diamond
13 certs
360,0004× Platinum
2 certs
GermanyDE
1,500,000Diamond ‡
1 cert
600,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
AustraliaAU
1,225,00017× Platinum
2 certs
35,000Gold
1 cert
ItalyIT
1,200,0006× Platinum ‡
1 cert
200,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
FranceFR
1,166,666Diamond ‡
6 certs
666,666Diamond ‡
2 certs
SwedenSE
840,0007× Platinum ‡ §
1 cert
No cert
DenmarkDK
630,0006× Platinum
2 certs
90,000Platinum
1 cert
South AfricaZA
620,0003× Platinum ‡
13 certs
No cert
New ZealandNZ
502,50011× Platinum †
7 certs
90,0003× Platinum †
1 cert
SpainES
500,0005× Platinum † ‡
1 cert
100,000Platinum ‡
1 cert
PolandPL
375,0003× Platinum ‡ ¶
1 cert
500,0004× Platinum ‡ ¶
1 cert
NetherlandsNL
18,604Gold
1 cert
232,5582× Platinum † ‡
2 certs
PortugalPT
200,0008× Platinum ‡
1 cert
162,0006× Platinum ‡
2 certs
AustriaAT
No cert
30,000Platinum
1 cert
+ 4 further countries where only Wizkid is certified · at least 433,000 · 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. 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. Promusicae publishes Oro and Platino thresholds only and never states the arithmetic for a multiple. 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. 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 ↗

§ 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. IFPI Sverige counts songs in capped streams only (since 1 January 2018) 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; capped streams undercount plays, so the figure is a floor.

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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