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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.
Burna Boy · at least
14,599,135
certified units · international · 97 of 105 plaques counted · 8 not comparable
CKay · at least
11,954,223
certified units · international · 17 of 18 plaques counted · 1 not comparable
Burna Boy leads by at least 2,644,912 certified units — a floor 1.2× the size of CKay's.
26 countries · internationalNigeria — 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.
Country by country
| Country · 17 | Burna Boy | CKay |
|---|---|---|
| United StatesUS | 6 plaques3,620,000 | 1 plaque8,000,000 |
| United KingdomUK | 19 plaques5,960,000 | 2 plaques1,400,000 |
| FranceFR | 13 plaques ‡2,383,332 | 2 plaques ‡666,666 |
| CanadaCA | 15 plaques1,320,000 | 2 plaques360,000 |
| GermanyDE | No plaque | 1 plaque ‡600,000 |
| New ZealandNZ | 13 plaques †307,500 | 1 plaque †90,000 |
| DenmarkDK | 6 plaques255,000 | 1 plaque90,000 |
| NetherlandsNL | 2 plaques ‡37,208 | 2 plaques † ‡232,557 |
| ItalyIT | 1 plaque ‡100,000 | 1 plaque ‡200,000 |
| AustraliaAU | 4 plaques175,000 | 1 plaque35,000 |
| SwitzerlandCH | 7 plaques160,000 | No plaque |
| PortugalPT | 2 plaques ‡37,000 | 1 plaque ‡150,000 |
| SpainES | 1 plaque ‡100,000 | 1 plaque ‡100,000 |
| AustriaAT | 2 plaques45,000 | 1 plaque30,000 |
| South AfricaZA | 1 plaque ‡40,000 | No plaque |
| SwedenSE | 2 plaques30,000+5 Platinum not counted ¹ | No plaque |
| PolandPL | Goldnot counted ¹ | 4× Platinumnot counted ¹ |
| + 5 further countries where only Burna Boy is certified · at least 29,095 · 2 plaques not counted ¹Show all | ||
¹ Not counted — Colombia (Pro Musica Colombia) · Greece (IFPI Greece) · Poland (ZPAV) · Sweden (GLF). Listed, never summed: these bodies publish no threshold this page can put on the same scale as the rest.
† Multiplier assumed — 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. An N× award is priced here as N × Platinum. 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.
‡ 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 everything can be counted
Sweden, Mexico and Poland publish no comparable single threshold; Greece, Belgium, Colombia, Czechia and Slovakia publish none at all. Those plaques are listed, not summed.
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