{"id":1171358,"date":"2022-08-09T10:03:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T10:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/09\/shatta-wale-becomes-the-first-ghanaian-artiste-to-earn-riaa-gold-certification-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T10:03:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T10:03:03","slug":"shatta-wale-becomes-the-first-ghanaian-artiste-to-earn-riaa-gold-certification-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/09\/shatta-wale-becomes-the-first-ghanaian-artiste-to-earn-riaa-gold-certification-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatta Wale Becomes The First Ghanaian Artiste To Earn &#8216;RIAA Gold Certification&#8217; In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"450\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot_20220809-094929.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot_20220809-094929\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Recording Industry Association of America gold-certified Beyonce, Shatta Wale and Major Lazer\u2019s \u2018Already\u2019 song on August 8, 2022. This award has gone into history\u2019s books as Shatta Wale becomes the first Ghanaian to be internationally recognised and awarded by the RIAA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1344\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1344 jetpack-lazy-image\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"  data-lazy- src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-09-at-6.53.34-AM-252x300.jpeg\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1660039383_786_WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-09-at-6.53.34-AM-252x300.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>RIAA\u2019s Gold and Platinum Awards Program was created to honour artists and track sound recording sales. It has also become the benchmark defining success in the recorded music industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Already\u2019, The Lion King Album is categorised in the Afrobeat genre. The song, by American singer Beyonc\u00e9, Ghanaian singer Shatta Wale and American trio Major Lazer, is also featured in the 2020 movie Black is King.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, portions of the video were filmed in Ghana led by director Joshua Kissi. Locations in the Eastern Region and Greater Accra Region were used for the music video.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Already\u2019 won the 2022 Best Collaboration of the Year award at the 18th Urban  Awards and 6th annual AEAUSA. In 2020, the song won Best Collaboration at the 2020 BreakTudo Awards.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Recording Industry Association of America gold-certified Beyonce, Shatta Wale and Major Lazer\u2019s \u2018Already\u2019 song on August 8, 2022. This award has gone into history\u2019s books as Shatta Wale becomes the first Ghanaian to be internationally recognised and awarded by the RIAA. RIAA\u2019s Gold and Platinum Awards Program was created to honour artists and track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[151,5939,775,1750,430,22768,134,886],"class_list":["post-1171358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-artiste","tag-certification","tag-earn","tag-ghanaian","tag-gold","tag-riaa","tag-shatta","tag-wale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}