Certifications › Compare
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.
Davido · at least
4,210,000
certified units · international · 26 of 26 plaques counted
Tyla · at least
13,232,565
certified units · international · 56 of 59 plaques counted · 3 not comparable
Tyla leads by at least 9,022,565 certified units — a floor 3.1× the size of Davido'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 · 12 | Davido | Tyla |
|---|---|---|
| United StatesUS | Platinum2,500,0004 plaques · top shown | 4× Platinum7,500,0007 plaques · top shown |
| United KingdomUK | Silver720,0005 plaques · top shown | 2× Platinum2,300,0006 plaques · top shown |
| FranceFR | Gold ‡200,0002 plaques · top shown | Diamond ‡533,3333 plaques · top shown |
| CanadaCA | Platinum360,0006 plaques · top shown | 4× Platinum520,0005 plaques · top shown |
| BrazilBR | No plaque | 2× Diamond440,0005 plaques · top shown |
| South AfricaZA | 2× Platinum ‡340,0006 plaques · top shown | No plaque |
| AustraliaAU | No plaque | 4× Platinum315,0002 plaques · top shown |
| GermanyDE | No plaque | Gold ‡300,000 |
| New ZealandNZ | Gold30,0002 plaques · top shown | 4× Platinum †240,0007 plaques · top shown |
| SwitzerlandCH | 2× Platinum60,000 | 2× Platinum85,0003 plaques · top shown |
| GreeceGR | No plaque | 2× Platinum +1not counted ¹ |
| PolandPL | No plaque | Platinumnot counted ¹ |
| + 11 further countries where only Tyla is certified · at least 999,232Show all | ||
¹ Not counted — Greece (IFPI Greece) · Poland (ZPAV). 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.
‡ 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.
Next
Two artists priced against each other — the other fourteen are one tap away, each with a ledger you can bring back here.
The Afrobeats Board