Certify Chart Record For Free

1. "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus. "Old Town Road" was certified 15-times platinum on September 17, 2021. It has since been certified 17-times platinum, as of November 29, 2022.

Certification thresholds The numbers in the tables are in terms of "units", where a unit represents one sale or one shipment of a given medium. Certification is often awarded cumulatively, and it is possible for a single album to be certified silver, gold, and platinum in turn.

The RIAA gives diamond certifications to songs that have gone platinum 10 times. Only 116 songs in history have been certified diamond and 23 artists have multiple songs on the list. Post Malone has the most with eight, followed by Bruno Mars with six.

Billboard reports the single from the ?Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse? soundtrack is now 17 times platinum ? the equivalent of 17 million copies sold ? surpassing Lil Nas X's ?Old Time Road,? which was 15x platinum.

These awards, given by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), represent huge sales?500,000 units for gold, 1 million for platinum, 2 million or more for multiplatinum, and 10 million for diamond.

['Old Town Road'] is now 14x Platinum and the most certified song in music history. Thank YOU!" The "Old Town Road" version featuring Cyrus has steadily climbed the certification ranks since it emerged in April 2019. (The original "Old Town Road" was first released in December 2018.)

RIAA GOLD & PLATINUM AWARDS CertificationMinimum UnitsDate EstablishedGold®500,0001958Platinum®1,000,0001976multi-Platinum®2,000,000 (in increments of 1,000,000 thereafter)1984Diamond®10,000,00019996 more rows

Most Platinum Artist#Elvis Presley30George Strait24The Beatles19The Rolling Stones1833 more rows

The RIAA bestows a diamond award upon those songs that have moved at least 10 million equivalent units, combining actual sales and equivalent units comprised of streams. Older tracks typically sell better, while newer ones benefit from non-stop stream activity.

On Thursday (September 3), Chart Data tweeted the Toronto super rapper's most recent single Laugh Now Cry Later featuring Lil Durk was officially certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), meaning it's already moved over 1 million units in the three weeks since its release.