Kendrick Lamar & Big Sean Go Platinum After RIAA Certification Criteria Change
Well, dear friends, it is indeed a joyous day, as Kendrick Lamar, Big Sean, Wale and plenty of others have received a sizable bump in their RIAA certifications following the long overdue inclusion of streaming numbers into certification criteria. Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly and Sean's Dark Sky Paradise have both now, finally, hit the platinum mark, while The Weeknd's Beauty Behind The Madness hit double-platinum and Michael Jackson's Thriller, already the only album to ever go thirty-times platinum, has gone up to thirty-two-times platinum.
According to the new system, 150 streams of any song is equivalent to 1 singles sale. You can peep the full list of artists who've been effected by the stream inclusion below.
Full list of certification bumps:
Alt-J, An Awesome Wave (Atlantic Records): Gold
Big Sean, Dark Sky Paradise (Def Jam Recordings): Platinum
Brett Eldredge, Bring You Back (Atlantic Nashville): Gold
Coldplay, Ghost Stories (Atlantic/Parlophone): Platinum
Elle King, Love Stuff (RCA): Gold
Fifth Harmony, Reflection (Epic): Gold
Halsey, Badlands (Astralwerks): Gold
Hozier, Hozier (Columbia): Platinum
Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly (Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope): Platinum
Michael Jackson, Thriller (Epic/Legacy): 32X Multi-Platinum
Miranda Lambert, Platinum (RCA Nashville): Platinum
Romeo Santos, Fórmula Vol. 2 (Sony Latin): 11X Diamante/RIAA Latin G&P Program
Sam Hunt, Montevallo (MCA Nashville): 2X Multi-Platinum
Shawn Mendes, Handwritten (Island Records): Platinum
The Weeknd, Beauty Behind the Madness (XO/Republic Records): 2X Multi-Platinum
Vance Joy, Dream Your Life Away (Atlantic Records): Gold
Wale, Ambition (Atlantic Urban): Gold
h/t Idolator
