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Certified units in South Africa
Every plaque the sixteen artists hold in South Africa, priced at RiSA's own published threshold and ranked. Each figure is a floor — a plaque says at least, never what a record sold.
South AfricaRiSAChange country
The board's plaques here · at least
2,300,000
certified units · 5 of 16 artists certified · 27 of 27 plaques counted
What one plaque is worth here
- Single
- Gold 20,000 · Platinum 40,000
- Album
- Gold 25,000 · Platinum 50,000
‡ RiSA roughly doubled its thresholds for sales after 1 January 2024 — singles Gold 10,000 → 20,000, Platinum 20,000 → 40,000; albums Gold 15,000 → 25,000, Platinum 30,000 → 50,000 — and prints both regimes side by side. Priced at today's level; a plaque awarded before 2024 may have cleared the lower bar.
RiSA's own levelsArtists ranked in South Africa
Biggest plaques in South Africa
All Eyes on MeBurna Boy (featured)19× Platinum760,000
Blow My MindDavido3× Platinum120,000
Come CloserWizkid3× Platinum120,000
EssenceWizkid · Tems (featured)3× Platinum120,000
Risky / RiskDavido3× Platinum120,000
A Good TimeDavido2× Platinum100,000
GingerWizkid · Burna Boy (featured)2× Platinum80,000
JowoDavido2× Platinum80,000
LocationBurna Boy (featured)2× Platinum80,000
AssuranceDavidoPlatinum40,000
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Burna Boy and Wizkid lead South Africa. The head-to-head puts them side by side in every country at once.
Burna Boy vs WizkidHow 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 §. Poland measures singles in złoty of revenue and Colombia publishes no thresholds. Greece is priced at IFPI's June 2013 level — the last the umbrella body ever published for it — and marked ¶. The unpriced plaques are listed, never summed, and never hidden.