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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.
Fireboy DML · at least
3,968,333
certified units · international · 8 of 8 plaques counted
Tems · at least
6,397,500
certified units · international · 25 of 25 plaques counted
Tems leads by at least 2,429,167 certified units — a floor 1.6× the size of Fireboy DML'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 · 8 | Fireboy DML | Tems |
|---|---|---|
| United StatesUS | 2 plaques1,500,000 | 4 plaques4,000,000 |
| United KingdomUK | 2 plaques2,000,000 | 6 plaques1,860,000 |
| FranceFR | 1 plaque ‡333,333 | 1 plaque ‡100,000 |
| CanadaCA | No plaque | 5 plaques240,000 |
| New ZealandNZ | 2 plaques45,000 | 7 plaques157,500 |
| DenmarkDK | 1 plaque90,000 | No plaque |
| PortugalPT | No plaque | 1 plaque ‡25,000 |
| SwitzerlandCH | No plaque | 1 plaque15,000 |
‡ 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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