{"id":42669,"date":"2015-07-01T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T14:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=42669"},"modified":"2015-07-01T10:44:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T14:44:28","slug":"rihanna-tops-taylor-swift-becomes-biggest-single-artist-ever-with-100m-us-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/07\/01\/rihanna-tops-taylor-swift-becomes-biggest-single-artist-ever-with-100m-us-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna Tops Taylor Swift, Becomes Biggest Singles Artist Ever With 100M US Units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past January, <a href=\"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/01\/23\/taylor-swift-tops-katy-perry-becomes-biggest-digital-act-ever\/\">the RIAA confirmed that Taylor Swift&#8217;s surpassed Katy Perry to become the biggest digital singles artist in history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, it confirmed that Rihanna has passed Taylor Swift on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Awarded certifications for 48 million additional units this week, Rihanna&#8217;s total now stands at 100 million digital units.  A unit is equivalent to either 1 single sale or 100 streams.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift&#8217;s total currently stands at 88 million.  Katy Perry follows with 79 million, while Kanye West and Lady Gaga complete the top five with tallies of 46.5 million and 39.5 million, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGold &#038; Platinum is the industry\u2019s premier way to celebrate achievement in the marketplace,\u201d said Cary Sherman, Chairman &#038; CEO, RIAA.  \u201cWe\u2019ve given awards to artists for nearly 60 years, but it\u2019s rare that we have the opportunity to recognize a milestone like the one Rihanna has reached.  Congratulations to Rihanna!  She has not only surpassed RIAA\u2019s one-hundred million mark, but also is the first artist to do so.  It\u2019s an historic feat and a testament to an extraordinary career.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p>The new Rihanna certifications include a 9x platinum mark for &#8220;We Found Love,&#8221; a 6x platinum certification for \u201cStay,\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s My Name\u201d and \u201cOnly Girl (In The World),&#8221; a 2x platinum label for &#8220;FourFiveSeconds&#8221; and a platinum distinction for &#8220;Bitch Better Have My Money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her 100 million certified digital units, Rihanna is also credited with 7.5 million US album sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047],"tags":[176,129,145],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rihanna Tops Taylor Swift, Becomes Biggest Singles Artist Ever With 100M US Units<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This past January, the RIAA confirmed that Taylor Swift&#039;s surpassed Katy Perry to become the biggest digital singles artist in history. 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