Gold & Platinum for Christmas: Shaboozey, Taylor Swift + more top RIAA 2024 certifications

How Shaboozey Broke the Mold

Where he’s going isn’t where we’ve been.

Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ Logs 17th Week at No. 1; Sabrina Carpenter Claims Two Top 10 Albums and Rosé Debuts at No. 3

Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” is closing the year at No. 1 on the albums chart. For a 17th (nonconsecutive) week, Swift leads the list with her Grammy-nominated “Tortured Poets” logging 240,000 equivalent album units, according to Luminate. Over 80% of that total is fueled by physical album sales following the release of the […]

Gold & Platinum for Christmas: Shaboozey, Taylor Swift + more top RIAA 2024 certifications

Disney/Frank Micelotta Shaboozey‘s getting some precious metal for Christmas this year. The Recording Industry Association of America, which certifies music Gold, Platinum and Diamond, has announced that the genre-bending star had the highest-certified song. “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” was certified for sales of 5 million units.  Shaboozey also set the record for the fastest certification of a single. It went Gold, signifying 500,000 units sold, just 3…

RIAA announces top selling albums and singles of 2024

Today, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced the top-selling albums and singles of the year. The RIAA tracks music sales and streams, and assigns the coveted gold, platinum, and diamond certifications to albums and singles. 16 albums and 69 singles released in 2024 became RIAA-certified. The top-performing album of the year, according to the RIAA's metrics, was Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department, which is now c…

Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, and everyone who went multiplatinum in record-setting 2024

When it comes to selling albums, the Taylor Swift era shows no signs of ending. The Recording Industry Association of America on Monday released its report on gold, platinum, and multiplatinum recordings from the year 2024. Swift topped the albums list with her six-times platinum blockbuster “The Tortured Poets Department,” while Shaboozey‘s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” was certified five-times platinum, making it the RIAA’s top single of the year. Sabr…

Taylor Swift is tops, Sabrina Carpenter doubles up in top 10

Beth Garrabrant Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Department once again has a lock on the top spot of the Billboard 200, while her opening act Sabrina Carpenter now has not one but two albums in the top 10. Taylor’s TTPD racks up a 17th week at #1, following the physical release of the Anthology version of the album, which was released on vinyl and CD exclusively at Target on Black Friday. As Billboard notes, since the album chart was establishe…