Big Sean’s career has been decorated with numerous plaques and awards declaring him one of Hip Hop’s premier artists. His latest album, I Decided, just went platinum and he has the plaque to prove it.
The Detroit native celebrated the accomplishment Wednesday (October 25) with an Instagram photo of himself crouching next to the enormous plaque.
“For the creatives, the dreamers I made this album for, I Decided is now certified PLATINUM,” the caption read. “The fans got me 4eva. Thank you #DonLife GOOD Music/DEF JAM #BacktoBackPlatinumAlbums #IDecided yeeeeeeee.”
Sean’s latest win isn’t really that surprising. Three of the project’s records have become enormous successes on their own. “Bounce Back” is certified three-times platinum, while “Move” has gone platinum. “Favors” featuring Detroit legend Eminem has also been certified gold.
I Decided was Sean’s second #1 debut on the Billboard 200 upon its release ending the week of February 9. It moved over 151,000 equivalent album units with 65,000 coming from physical album sales. He previously led the chart with 2015’s Dark Sky Paradise, which moved 173,000 units, 139,000 of which were traditional album sales.
Big Sean is cool and all, I like some of his music.. but how many copies did it actually sell? Not feeling this new pseudo-platinum that includes streams. At least put the real stats out so we know what i actually sold. My guess would be about 300-350k total actual sales.
I agree…but these are the times now. we have to get use to it. People don’t consume music how they used to
Streams should not count 1 to 1 or even 2 to 1 should be 10 to 15 to 1 streamings should count as one screw they way artist like Future and Soulja Boy going plantinum. These today could fart or mumble for 65min+ and it will go platinum. With these fake platinums artist are getting today makes the younger gen this these artist are top 150 level they are really not even top 1000 S M H.