{"id":90063,"date":"2017-06-08T13:45:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T17:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=90063"},"modified":"2017-06-08T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T17:55:37","slug":"taylor-swift-reaches-100-million-digital-us-single-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2017\/06\/08\/taylor-swift-reaches-100-million-digital-us-single-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Crosses 100 Million In US Digital Single Units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2017\/06\/08\/taylor-swifts-shake-off-certified-9x-platinum-us-state-grace-now-gold\/\">Two Taylor Swift songs<\/a> just received new US digital single certifications from the RIAA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shake It Off&#8221; was upgraded to 9x platinum on June 8, 2017, while &#8220;State Of Grace&#8221; concurrently earned a gold award.<\/p>\n<p>Significant in their own right, the certifications also yield a very noteworthy career milestone for Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p>They bring her total number of RIAA-certified US digital single units to 101 million.<\/p>\n<p>Swift is just the second artist to cross the 100 million unit mark.  Rihanna, the first to achieve the feat, currently boasts a certified unit total of 118.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>As of June 8, 2017, these are the leaders in US Digital Single Certifications:<\/p>\n<p>1) Rihanna &#8211; 118.5 million<br \/>\n2) Taylor Swift &#8211; 101 million<br \/>\n3) Katy Perry &#8211; 88 million<br \/>\n4) Justin Bieber &#8211; 63 million<br \/>\n5) Lady Gaga &#8211; 60 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She joins Rihanna as the second artist to achieve the feat.","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[129,2761,9177,145],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taylor Swift Crosses 100 Million In US Digital Single Units<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two Taylor Swift songs just received new US digital single certifications from the RIAA. &quot;Shake It Off&quot; 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