Drake has continued to write himself into the history books after scoring a number of new platinum plaques.
Drizzy received 14 new certifications from the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) this week, adding to his 37th birthday celebrations.
As far as albums, Take Care is now 8x platinum, Nothing Was the Same is 6x platinum, Thank Me Later is 4x platinum, Certified Lover Boy is 3x platinum and Her Loss is 2x platinum.
On the singles side, “Hold On, We’re Going Home” featuring Majid Jordan is now 9x platinum, “Headlines,” “Started From the Bottom” and “The Motto” featuring Lil Wayne are all 8x platinum, and the Rihanna-assisted “Take Care” is 7x platinum.
Other songs to earn new certifications include “Laugh Now Cry Later” featuring Lil Durk (6x platinum), “Money in the Grave” featuring Rick Ross (6x platinum), “Knife Talk” featuring 21 Savage and Project Pat (5x platinum) and “Wants and Needs” featuring Lil Baby (5x platinum).
According to Chart Data, Drake has become the first act in history to surpass 200 million RIAA-certified single units as a lead artist. His total currently stands at 223 million, among them four diamond songs (“Hotline Bling,” “One Dance,” “God’s Plan” and “Sicko Mode” with Travis Scott).
Following the news, Drake shared text messages on his Instagram Story from Mr. Morgan, president of OVO Sound, informing him about his new milestone.
“Tried to have this all go live for you yesterday, but we certified a lot of certifications for your bday,” the messages read. “Drake now has 223M RIAA Digital Certified Song Units as a lead artist. First artist to cross 200M in RIAA History.”
The news comes after Drake surpassed Eminem to become the highest-certified singles artist in RIAA history in December 2022.
At the time, Drizzy continued his record-breaking run by earning 10 new plaques from the RIAA, taking his total to 184 million singles sold.
Eminem was previously awarded the title in March 2022 after achieving 166 million units for his singles catalog.
These are ESPN stats unfortunately.
It’s not the same as physically going to the store and purchasing a physical copy.
Not Drake’s fault but streaming ruined Billboard charts.
This. Most of the artists these days that are X times platinum should almost come with an asterisk on that plaque. Not a knock on the artists themselves, they’re playing the game by today’s rules. But, you can’t convince me 99% of the artists that are multi platinum by today’s standards would have people spending $16 on a physical copies for every mediocre album they drop every 9 months.
Back then you were lucky if 2 of your singles made the charts. Now, your whole album is on there….it’s flawed.
Drake lol
Drake is International. PAC is International. Ye is International. Em is International Versus Nas is Local. Jay is Local. There’s a Big difference. International artist make albums to appease all there fans. That’s why you’ll get an album of variety. That’s why Drake will never make an album full of Griselda beats. Local artist make albums for the block.
If you are a Drake fan in 2023, kill yourself. There is so much undiscovered talent on YouTube and you are supporting this old corny talentless clown?
Drake is a cornball with corny lyrics and a gay voice. The only good thing about his songs are the beat. Just download the instrumental for free illegally. Stop making this f@gggot so rich…
Congrats, you corny privileged tranny loving Canadian mutt. You got rich off from millions of dumb people with poor taste in music. 🙄
Blacks and J✡️ews are cancer to society. They are trying to shove their garbage Satanic agenda down our throats with the media…
This is what you blacks care about? You blacks are scum of the Earth. You blacks rather buy a garbage Drake song and praise Drake than donate to charity, help animals, donate to hungry children or help the planet.
Why should we care about corny, spoiled Drake? There is hungry children, people are homeless, people are in poverty and can’t feed their family, there is global warming and animals are going extinct. Stop supporting garbage rappers.
I could name thousands of American rappers who rap better than Drake aka Fake. Canadians want our American swag.