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Certified units, compared
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.
Ayra Starr · at least
8,061,666
certified units · Nigeria included · 41 of 41 plaques counted
Black Sherif · at least
1,525,000
certified units · Nigeria included · 24 of 24 plaques counted
Ayra Starr leads by at least 6,536,666 certified units — a floor 5.3× the size of Black Sherif's.
27 countries · Nigeria includedNigeria — included.
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.
Country by country
| Country · 4 | Ayra Starr | Black Sherif |
|---|---|---|
| NigeriaNG | 23 plaques2,750,000 | 24 plaques1,525,000 |
| MexicoMX | 1 plaque † ‡ §1,760,000 | No plaque |
| United StatesUS | 1 plaque960,000 | No plaque |
| FranceFR | 4 plaques ‡866,666 | No plaque |
| + 8 further countries where only Ayra Starr is certified · at least 1,725,000Show all | ||
† Multiplier assumed — AMPROFON publishes no multiplier rule for singles; its own register stacks the levels it has awarded. An N× award is priced here as N × Platino. Promusicae publishes Oro and Platino thresholds only and never states the arithmetic for a multiple. An N× award is priced here as N × Platinum.
‡ 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 ↗
§ Ratio assumed — the body publishes its levels in streams and no download-equivalence, so this page converts at 100 streams to a unit, the ratio Denmark and Norway publish for the same measure. AMPROFON measures singles in audio streams (video streams may be added since November 2020) and publishes no stream-to-unit ratio. Its plaques are converted at 100 streams to a unit, the ratio IFPI Danmark and IFPI Norge publish for the same measure.
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 — France, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands — are converted with the body's own published download-equivalence, never an estimate.
Not quite everything can be priced
Sweden and Mexico 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 §. Poland measures singles in złoty of revenue and Greece and Colombia publish no thresholds: those plaques are listed, never summed, and never hidden.
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