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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.

Omah Lay

artist totals · 19 counted · 8 countries

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Ruger

artist totals · 3 counted · 3 countries

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Featured appearancesFeatured appearances: on · every plaque heldNigeriaNigeria: separatedHow this is counted

Omah Lay · at least

2,763,666

certified units · international · 19 of 19 plaques counted

Ruger · at least

315,000

certified units · international · 3 of 3 plaques counted

Omah Lay leads by at least 2,448,666 certified units — a floor 8.8× the size of Ruger's.

26 countries · international · registers read 6 September 2026 (Omah Lay) and 24 September 2026 (Ruger)

Nigeria — 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.

Omah Lay — 43 plaques · at least 5,725,000Ruger — 16 plaques · at least 1,875,000
Include Nigeria

Country by country

Country · 9Omah LayRuger
FranceFR
Diamond ‡1,016,6666 plaques · top shown
Gold ‡100,000
United KingdomUK
Silver660,0004 plaques · top shown
Silver200,000
United StatesUS
Gold500,000
No plaque
GermanyDE
Gold ‡300,000
No plaque
CanadaCA
Platinum160,0003 plaques · top shown
No plaque
SpainES
Gold ‡50,000
No plaque
South AfricaZA
Platinum ‡40,000
No plaque
PortugalPT
Platinum ‡37,0002 plaques · top shown
No plaque
New ZealandNZNo plaque
Gold15,000

‡ 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 — Czechia, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Slovakia — are converted with the body's own published download-equivalence, never an estimate.

Not quite everything can be priced

Mexico and Sweden 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 §. Colombia publishes no thresholds. Greece is priced at IFPI's June 2013 level — the last the umbrella body ever published for it — and marked ¶. Poland sets its single levels in złoty of revenue and states no rate; they are converted at 2 zł a single, the rate its own single tables used until the end of 2024, and marked ¶. The unpriced plaques are listed, never summed, and never hidden.

How this is counted

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