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Certified units in the United States
Every plaque the sixteen artists hold in the United States, priced at RIAA's own published threshold and ranked. Each figure is a floor — a plaque says at least, never what a record sold.
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The board's plaques here · at least
42,700,000
certified units · 11 of 16 artists certified · 36 of 36 plaques counted · 33 at RIAA, 3 at RIAA Latin
What one plaque is worth here
- Single
- Gold 500,000 · Platinum 1,000,000 · Diamond 10,000,000
- Album
- Gold 500,000 · Platinum 1,000,000 · Diamond 10,000,000
RIAA
- Single
- Gold 30,000 · Platinum 60,000 · Diamond 600,000
- Album
- Gold 30,000 · Platinum 60,000 · Diamond 600,000
RIAA Latin
Artists ranked in the United States
RIAA10 artists · 33 plaques · Platinum 1,000,00041,500,000
| Rank | Artist · 10 | Highest plaque | Certified units |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Wizkid | 5× Platinum Essence | 8,000,0006 plaques |
| 2 |  CKay | 8× Platinum love nwantiti (ah ah ah) | 8,000,0001 plaque |
| 3 |  Tyla | 4× Platinum Water | 7,500,0007 plaques |
| 4 |  Rema | 5× Platinum Calm Down | 5,500,0002 plaques |
| 5 |  Tems | 2× Platinum Free Mind | 4,000,0004 plaques |
| 6 |  Burna Boy | Platinum Last Last | 3,500,0005 plaques |
| 7 |  Davido | Platinum Fall | 2,500,0004 plaques |
| 8 |  Fireboy DML | Platinum Peru | 1,500,0002 plaques |
| 9 |  Omah Lay | Gold soso | 500,0001 plaque |
| 10 |  Victony | Gold Soweto | 500,0001 plaque |
RIAA Latin3 artists · 3 plaques · Platinum 60,0001,200,000
| Rank | Artist · 3 | Highest plaque | Certified units |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Ayra Starr | 16× Platino Santa | 960,0001 plaque |
| 2 | Burna Boy | 2× Platino Dai Dai | 120,0001 plaque |
| 3 | Rema | 2× Platino Bubalu | 120,0001 plaque |
Biggest plaques in the United States
love nwantiti (ah ah ah)CKay8× Platinum8,000,000
Calm DownRema5× Platinum5,000,000
EssenceWizkid5× Platinum5,000,000
WaterTyla4× Platinum4,000,000
Free MindTems2× Platinum2,000,000
Come CloserWizkidPlatinum1,000,000
FallDavidoPlatinum1,000,000- HigherTemsPlatinum1,000,000
Last LastBurna BoyPlatinum1,000,000
PeruFireboy DMLPlatinum1,000,000
Counted separately — RIAA Latin runs beside RIAA here at its own levels, so its plaques have a table of their own: summing them into the RIAA line would report awards RIAA never issued. Premios de Oro y Platino. Oro 30,000 units, Platino 60,000, Multi-Platino in 60,000 steps; Diamante is 10x Platino. Requires a recording at least 51% Spanish, which is why a US plaque on a Spanish-language record must never be priced at the standard programme's 1,000,000.
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Wizkid and CKay lead the United States. The head-to-head puts them side by side in every country at once.
Wizkid vs CKayHow 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.