Washington D.C., DC (Top40 Charts/ RIAA) The Recording
Industry Association of
America (RIAA) has recognized Lady Gaga as the highest-certified artist of digital singles in Gold & Platinum history with 20 million downloads sold, according to the group's February Gold & Platinum certifications report.
Following on the heels of the recent Grammy telecast, the three-time winner this year brought "
Just Dance" 6x multi-Platinum, "
Poker Face" 5x multi-Platinum, "
Bad Romance" 4x multi-Platinum, "
Paparazzi" 3x multi-Platinum and "
Love Game" 2x multi-Platinum, to a total record of 20 million digital singles sold. At 6x multi-Platinum, the Interscope artist's no excuses tune "
Just Dance" ties the
Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" as the RIAA's HIGHEST digital song certification in G&P program history. In addition to Gaga's great feat, the RIAA extends additional kudos to fellow female icons
Rihanna and
Taylor Swift whose digital single certification tallies are currently 19 million and 18.5 million respectively. The
Black Eyed Peas are the "group" that currently has the most digital singles certified at 17.5 million units.
A 5x multi-Platinum plaque was awarded to
Train for hit track "Hey, Soul Sister," the same song that recently earned the popular group a Grammy award for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals. The Columbia Records rock trio also took a Gold for their newest single "
Marry Me" selling more than 500,000 downloads. Not far behind, Spanish singer-songwriter
Enrique Iglesias earned a 3x multi-Platinum download award for "
I Like It" - his best selling song yet - that was released on Universal Republic in July.
Tough as nails ballad "
Bulletproof" earned Interscope pop duo
La Roux their very first RIAA Gold, Platinum and double-Platinum awards in February. The smash hit hails from La Roux's self-titled 2009 album debut which won last month's Grammy award for Best Electronic/Dance Album.
On the album front, Michael Buble's 2011 Grammy award-winning Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Crazy Love (Reprise, 2009) went double-Platinum in February to mark more than two million copies sold. This mint marks the popular Canadian jazz vocalist's second RIAA multi-Platinum album award. His album It's Time (2005) is currently triple-Platinum.
A notable first Platinum award went to Grammy Best New Artist nominee, U.K. quartet Mumford & Sons, for debut album Sigh No More (Glassnote Records, 2010). Another English band nominated in the same enormously talented newcomer category, Florence and the Machine, additionally earned their premiere Gold award for album debut Lungs (Universal Republic, 2009).
Additional first Gold album awards went to teen acts
Demi Lovato and The
Band Perry for their respective popular albums Don't Forget (Hollywood, 2008) and The
Band Perry (Big Machine Records, Inc., 2010).
Epic artist
Sara Bareilles earned her second Platinum download nod for "King of Anything," another solid Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance this past year. Bareilles' best selling single to-date "
Love Song" is currently RIAA certified 3x multi-Platinum for selling more than three million digital downloads.
Married country-singing duo Thompson
Square and Christian singer-songwriter
Chris Tomlin earned premiere Gold download awards for their respective songs "Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not" (Stoney Creek Records, 2010) and "How Great Is Our God" (Sparrow Records, 2004). Tomlin currently has two RIAA Gold albums See The Morning (2006) and Hello Love (2008), plus a Platinum album nod for Arriving (2004).
Added congrats to country act
Billy Currington who earned his fourth Gold download award for his
September song release "Pretty Good at Drinkin' Beer." The song hails from Currington's latest and fourth studio album Enjoy Yourself (Mercury Nashville, 2010).
In February the RIAA awarded a total of 12 album and 20 digital single certifications. All certifications are calculated by Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman. Complete lists of all album, single, mastertone and video awards can also be accessed at www.riaa.com.
