Good news for Beyonce and Future. The RIAA just announced they are both are the latest recipients of platinum status.
“#LEMONADE is Platinum, @Beyonce! Congratulations!,” the RIAA announced in a Tweet on Wednesday (June 8). Lemonade became the her sixth album to go platinum. She is now 6 for 6.
After coming in an #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, Lemonade hit the one-million mark less than two months after its April 23 release. The RIAA began including streams in its count earlier this year, counting 1,500 audio or video streams as equivalent to an album sale, but Billboard said most Beyonce fans are outright buying Lemonade.
In the album’s first week, “It sold 653,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 28, according to Nielsen Music. Pure album sales comprised 485,000 of that,” Billboard said.
Meanwhile, Future scored his first platinum solo album as Dirty Sprite 2 finally surpasses the one million sales mark. DS2, which topped the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 147,000 last July, earns Future Hendrix his second platinum plaque overall following last year’s collaborative album with Drake, What a Time to Be Alive.
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