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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.
Nigeria included by default — Black Sherif has no international certifications.
Burna Boy · at least
20,764,135
certified units · Nigeria included · 154 of 157 plaques counted · 3 not comparable
Black Sherif · at least
1,425,000
certified units · Nigeria included · 22 of 22 plaques counted
Burna Boy leads by at least 19,339,135 certified units — a floor 14.6× 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 · 7 | Burna Boy | Black Sherif |
|---|---|---|
| NigeriaNG | 5× Platinum5,625,00052 plaques · top shown | 3× Platinum1,425,00022 plaques · top shown |
| United KingdomUK | 2× Platinum5,960,00019 plaques · top shown | No plaque |
| United StatesUS | Platinum3,620,0006 plaques · top shown | No plaque |
| FranceFR | Diamond ‡2,383,33213 plaques · top shown | No plaque |
| ColombiaCO | GoldSony Music Colombianot counted ¹ | No plaque |
| GreeceGR | Goldnot counted ¹ | No plaque |
| PolandPL | Goldnot counted ¹ | No plaque |
| + 15 further countries where only Burna Boy is certified · at least 3,175,803Show all | ||
¹ Not counted — Colombia (Pro Musica Colombia) · Greece (IFPI Greece) · Poland (ZPAV). Listed, never summed: these bodies publish no threshold this page can put on the same scale as the rest.
‡ 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 — 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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