{"id":1171366,"date":"2022-08-09T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T09:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/09\/shatta-wale-recieves-first-riaa-gold-certification-with-already-starr-fm\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T09:59:43","slug":"shatta-wale-recieves-first-riaa-gold-certification-with-already-starr-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/09\/shatta-wale-recieves-first-riaa-gold-certification-with-already-starr-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatta Wale recieves First RIAA Gold Certification With \u2018 Already\u2019 \u2014 Starr Fm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/0236D904-B9CC-4A6A-B81B-4748B4CFA662-696x392.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"0236D904-B9CC-4A6A-B81B-4748B4CFA662\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Shatta Wale feature \u201cAlready,\u201d which made multiple \u00a0entries in Billboard Charts, has just been certified gold by the RIAA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the hit song released as a track in 2019\u2019s The Lion King: The Gift album by Beyonce through Parkwood Entertainment, LLC, reached the huge feat on Monday (August 08) after garnering over 500,000 unit sales in US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cAlready\u201d also features American trio Major Lazer. It was originally released as a track in 2019\u2019s The Lion King: The Gift, a soundtrack album curated by Beyonc\u00e9 for the 2019 photorealistic animated remake of The Lion King. It was then featured in Black Is King, a visual counterpart and television film for the album, released on Disney Plus on July 31, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Shatta Wale joins Ghanaian musician, Fuse ODG who have received gold certification by RIAA. In 2020, the Azonto hitmaker received RIAA Gold certification for his collaboration with Major Lazer and Nyla (Brick &#038; Lace) on Light It Up Remix. The song (Light It Up Remix) went Gold on March 1, 2017. It moved Platinum on March 1, 2017, and has since gone 2x Multi-Platinum as of September 15, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Meanwhile, early this summer, KiDi also earned his first ever platinum certification for his single \u201cTouch It\u201d. According to Africa Facts Zone, the song has received its platinum certification from Indian based record label, 9122 Record, for amassing 120,000 sales and 200M+ combined streams in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!-- A generated by theme --> <\/p>\n<p> <!-- end A --> <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.1&appId=1201200913327594&autoLogAppEvents=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starrfm.com.gh\/2022\/08\/shatta-wale-recieves-first-riaa-gold-certification-with-already\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Shatta Wale feature \u201cAlready,\u201d which made multiple \u00a0entries in Billboard Charts, has just been certified gold by the RIAA. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the hit song released as a track in 2019\u2019s The Lion King: The Gift album by Beyonce through Parkwood Entertainment, LLC, reached the huge feat on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5939,430,22770,22768,134,357,886],"class_list":["post-1171366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-certification","tag-gold","tag-recieves","tag-riaa","tag-shatta","tag-starr","tag-wale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171366","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=1171366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}