RIAA single certification

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A single certification is the certification that the RIAA awards to singles based on their sales. It is estimated that there have been about 2,550 combined single certifications.

Recently, digital singles have begun to be certified due to the increase of the digital market and decrease of the physical commercial singles market. Although digital downloads have been around since 2003, they weren't considered to be significant until 2005, when they were first counted towards the Hot 100. Because of this, it is important to distinguish between singles that came out before and after the change (as singles after the change sold in higher quantities at a faster rate, while the older singles took longer to reach levels of certification).

In 2004, it would usually take over a year for a digital single to exceed sales over 100,000. In 2006, Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie," sold over 260,000 digital tracks in just a week.

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[edit] Guidelines

A standard single is certified:

Note: Before January 1, 1989, gold was achieved at 1,000,000 copies, and platinum at 2,000,000[1]

A digital single is certified:

[edit] List of certified digital singles (modern era)

[edit] Singles released during the modern era

This is a list of singles released and certified during the modern era.

[edit] Multi-Platinum singles

[edit] Platinum singles

[edit] Gold singles

[edit] Singles not released during the modern era

This is a list of singles that had previously been released as digital downloads in the previous era, and that have been recertified, or older songs which were never released as digital downloads during the time that they were promoted as singles (but which have managed to get enough downloads to be certified).

[edit] Recertifications of songs previously certified

[edit] Multi-platinum singles
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[edit] Platinum singles
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[edit] First certification of songs released in previous eras

[edit] Multiplatinum singles

[edit] Platinum singles

[edit] Gold singles

[edit] Singles released before the advent of digital downloads

[edit] Gold singles

[edit] List of certified digital singles (previous eras)

[edit] Multi-platinum singles

[edit] Platinum singles

[edit] Gold singles

[edit] List of certified standard commercial singles (commercial-decline era)

[edit] Multi-platinum singles

[edit] Platinum singles

[edit] Gold singles

[edit] See also

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