{"id":1171410,"date":"2022-08-09T10:37:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T10:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/09\/shatta-wale-makes-history-becomes-first-ghanaian-artiste-to-bag-riaa-gold-certification\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T10:37:21","slug":"shatta-wale-makes-history-becomes-first-ghanaian-artiste-to-bag-riaa-gold-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/09\/shatta-wale-makes-history-becomes-first-ghanaian-artiste-to-bag-riaa-gold-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatta Wale Makes History, Becomes First Ghanaian Artiste To Bag RIAA Gold Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"h-highly-rated-ghanaian-dancehall-recording-and-performing-artiste-charles-nii-armah-mensah-jnr-better-known-by-his-stage-name-shatta-wale-has-bagged-a-major-career-milestone\">Highly rated Ghanaian dancehall recording and performing artiste, Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr, better known by his stage name, Shatta wale has bagged a major career milestone.<\/h2>\n<p>You would recall that in 2019, renowned American singer, songwriter, producer, and actress, Beyonc\u00e9 Giselle Knowles-Carter professionally known as Beyonce linked up with the Ghanaian superstar on a masterpiece tagged; \u201cAlready\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wale.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-830411\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The output, \u2018Already\u2019 which also features Major Lazer happens to be a single from Beyounce\u2019s studio album labeled, \u2018The Lion King: The Gift\u2019 and was featured in the 2020 film \u2018Black Is King\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the groovy jam on Monday, August 8, 2022 was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) after garnering over 500,000 unit sales in US. This feat is massive for Shatta Wale as he becomes the first Ghanaian act to be gold-certified.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"h-also-here-s-why-kizz-daniel-refused-to-perform-in-tanzania\">ALSO: Here\u2019s Why Kizz Daniel Refused To Perform In Tanzania<\/h4>\n<p>The Recording Industry Association of America Gold and platinum certification program was created to honor artists and track sound recording sales. It has also become the benchmark defining success in the recorded music industry.<\/p>\n<p>The song, \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>Source: Ghgossip.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"70ad653dc5dc051156a2e140-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly rated Ghanaian dancehall recording and performing artiste, Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr, better known by his stage name, Shatta wale has bagged a major career milestone. You would recall that in 2019, renowned American singer, songwriter, producer, and actress, Beyonc\u00e9 Giselle Knowles-Carter professionally known as Beyonce linked up with the Ghanaian superstar on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[151,1898,5939,1750,430,2550,22768,134,886],"class_list":["post-1171410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-artiste","tag-bag","tag-certification","tag-ghanaian","tag-gold","tag-history","tag-riaa","tag-shatta","tag-wale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171410","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=1171410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}